these blogs are a must read for search engine savvys.

Yahoo Search Blog (ysearchblog.com)
Ask Jeeves Blog (blog.ask.com)
MSN Search Weblog (blogs.msdns.com/msnsearch) is now (http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/)
Google Blog – All of Them (googleblog.blogspot.com)

More blog lists:
- Best Search Engine News Blogs
- Best SEO, Search Engine Optimization Blogs
- Best Search Engine Owned Blogs
- Best Search Engine Marketing and Contextual Advertising Blogs
- Best Blog Search Engine Blogs

I was looking for some of these blogs to add in my desktop feed reader(FeedDemon) and found a good list at the Search Engine Journal.
Will post these series of search blogs in different post for better search engine visibility.

Just incase if you want to subscribe to the best of these kind of blogs, here is the list:

Best Search Engine News Blogs:

Pandia (pandia.com)
MarketingPilgrim (marketingpilgrim.com)
SearchEngineBlog.com
Search Engine Lowdown (searchenginelowdown.com)
Search Views (searchviews.com)
John Battelle Search Blog (battellemedia.com)
Search Engine Watch Blog (blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Threadwatch (threadwatch.org)
Google Blogoscoped (blog.outer-court.com)
Search Engine Roundtable (seroundtable.com)
Research Buzz (researchbuzz.com)
Top Rank Blog (toprank.blogspot.com)

More blog lists:
- Best Search Engine News Blogs
- Best SEO, Search Engine Optimization Blogs
- Best Search Engine Owned Blogs
- Best Search Engine Marketing and Contextual Advertising Blogs
- Best Blog Search Engine Blogs

If you are late to know this, let me tell you, the recent article at WebProNews stating it a rumor is now real. The news came from the New York Times and here is what it has to say:

A profitless Web site started by three 20-somethings after a late-night dinner party is sold for more than a billion, instantly turning dozens of its employees into paper millionaires. It sounds like a tale from the late 1990s dot-com bubble, but it happened Monday.

Google, the online search company, agreed Monday to pay $1.65 billion in stock for the Web site that came out of that party — YouTube, the video-sharing phenomenon that is the darling of an Internet resurgence known as Web 2.0.

YouTube, founded in February 2005, had been coveted by virtually every big media and technology company as they seek to tap into a new generation of consumers who are viewing 100 million short videos on the site every day.

Checkout the news here.

Yahoo confirmed on Wednesday that it’s polling some Yahoo Mail users about what they would want in exchange for making Yahoo their primary search engine. The survey was sent to a random sampling representing about 5 percent of its Yahoo Mail users, a Yahoo representative said.

“Yahoo is considering launching a program to reward people who make Yahoo their primary search engine,” the survey says. “Yahoo Mail users will be given early access to this program. You will receive a monthly reward if you make Yahoo your primary search engine. This means that most of the searching you do each month must be on Yahoo Search.”

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Google has announced a major update that will affect the ranking of web pages in Google’s index. In contrast to the usual algorithm updates, this update will be much bigger because it changes the way Google works behind the scenes. Google has given the update the name “Bigdaddy”.

What is Google’s Bigdaddy update?

Google uses a network of data centers with different IP addresses to answer search queries. These decentralized servers share the workload of indexing web sites.

The upcoming Bigdaddy update is not an algorithm update but a change in Google’s data center infrastructure. It contains new code for sorting and examining web pages. According to Google’s search engineer Matt Cutts, the update will be live in February or March.

Less spam, more content and a new Google spider?

Google is updating the data center infrastructure to handle potential spam problems such as 302 redirections or canonical URLs more efficiently. In addition, the new infrastructure will allow Google to develop more advanced algorithms and larger databases.

Another reason for the new data center infrastructure is that Google wants to be able to index different content types. Google is now testing a new search engine spider that is based on the Mozilla browser.

The new spider should be able to index more than traditional search engine spiders, possibly links within images, JavaScripts or Flash files.

How can you test how Bigdaddy will affect your rankings?

Some Google data centers that use the new Bigdaddy system are already online. For example, if you go to 66.249.93.104 you can test Google’s new data center.

Google even wants your feedback. Click the “Dissatisfied? Help us improve” link at the bottom right of the result page. Enter your feedback and use the keyword bigdaddy so that Google knows that your feedback is about the new data center.

It’s hard to tell how the Bigdaddy update will affect your web page rankings. If you have a spam free web site with good content and many incoming links, the update should have a positive effect on your Google rankings.

Now you can make your Toolbar as unique as you are. You can add buttons and bookmarks; get instant search suggestions; share web pages with friends; and enjoy the Toolbar’s pop-up blocker, web form filler, and spellchecker.

According to a phone poll on over 1000 Internet users took last week by the Ponemon Institute, more than three quarters of web surfers don’t have a clue about Google’s possibility of recording and storing personal information that can be used to identify them. This fact proves clearly that the privacy war is far from its end.

Although Google promised initially not to tie its email service to the search service, in the end they have reconsidered the initial decision. A good thing to know is that the lifetime of Google’s cookies expires in 2038; the search engine giant can also record the IP address of every user, along with the search history, shopping habits, social contacts and email. All of these are the result of CEO Eric Schmidt’s promise to create a “Google that knows more about you”.

Google’s great dilemma is: go public about all this, or count further on people’s “I don’t care” way of thinking?

Regarding criminal cases, the same study shows that 56% of the questioned said Google should not turn over information to the Government, and only 14% are more than happy that this is actually possible.

Schmidt’s Google Super-Sizes Mini Search Box – Forbes.com

Chief Executive Eric Schmidt’s Google announced Thursday new double and triple capacities for its Mini search device, letting companies peruse their Web sites and internal networks the same way that Google’s flagship search engine scours the Internet.