Sourced From SearchDay
By Chris Sherman

A new site jumps on the tagging bandwagon and actually ends up with useful search results. Why? Because it’s narrowly focused on a specific topic and has a large degree of agreement among its user community.

Search Engine Watch regulars know that we’re highly skeptical about tagging as a search savior.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with tagging, it’s simply the ability to annotate pages, images or other web content with descriptive keywords—you “tag” them with terms that supposedly help more precisely describe the page, in theory making it more “understandable” by search engines.

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Sourced From SearchDay
By Chris Sherman

Continuing its efforts to tap into personal and collective knowledge in search, Yahoo has enhanced its shopping service with a number of useful features, debuting what it calls the “shoposphere.”

Yahoo Shopping’s shoposphere is a new form of social commerce where the Yahoo user community can get involved in commerce without having to worry about any infrastructure.

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Sourced From SearchDay
By Gary Price

Google Print has stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy, but another company has been offering online book search capabilities, with the blessings of publishers, for years.
ebrary has been around since 1999. The company offers numerous services including one that lets you search and read over 20,000 in-copyright books for free. You pay only to print and copy text.

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Sourced from Pew Internet & American Life Project

Search engine use shoots up in the past year and edges towards email as the primary internet application.

Search engines have become an increasingly important part of the online experience of American internet users. The most recent findings from Pew Internet & American Life tracking surveys and consumer behavior trends from the comScore Media Metrix consumer panel show that about 60 million American adults are using search engines on a typical day.

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Sourced From Search Day
By Chris Sherman

Google’s new Local for mobile service is a stripped-down version of the web-based Google Local that puts a heavy emphasis on maps and driving directions.

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