March 2004 SE Updates
March 1st, 2004
Search Engine Updates for...
| Overture (Inktomi/FAST/AltaVista) | Lycos | ODP | LookSmart | Yahoo | MSN |
In this month's issue...
Alert: Special March 11th Yahoo Overture Update Article Now Available
- Yahoo dumps Google
- HUGE changes in paid inclusion services
- New Yahoo flight tracking
- Yahoo renames Robot
- New Yahoo front page ad availability
- Google Labs adds Wireless Froogle features
- Google increases index size
Google Update - http://www.google.com
What's new
Google Labs adds Wireless Froogle features
Froogle search service is now available to WML capable cell phones. By going to http://wml.froogle.com/ with your cell phone you'll be presented with a search box where, by entering your search term, you'll receive search results scrollable five-at-a-time.
More details at http://labs.google.com/frooglewml.html
Google increases index size
Google recently announced having reached 6 billion items indexed. According to Google, that 6 billion number consists of 4.28 billion web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages and a significant number of book-related information pages. This is a substantial increase in both images and web pages for Google.
