Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Hey Microsoft: Bribing Searchers Is Fine; Frustrating Them Is Not!I’ve got no problem if Microsoft wants to "bribe" searchers to use its search engine. Even Google has done the same. But the Live Search [...]

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Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality at Google wrote a fairly long post at the Google Blog on introducing search quality to the public. In short, Udi explains the various teams within the search quality group and explains what each team does. I will highlight below the parts I personally found most interesting:
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Udi Manber talks about search at Google in a recent post on the Google blog. If you’re interested in search or search engine optimization (SEO), the post is definitely worth a read. Udi discusses items from big (Google revamped how it computes PageRank in January) to small (in Hebrew, an acronym like IBM would be [...]

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Microsoft launched Live Search Cashback and Greg will have a more detailed post on his pre-briefing. But I wanted to take you through the experience of using Cashback as a searcher.
It has been a rainy week here in New York, and I figured I would start my search and shopping experience looking [...]

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Microsoft has introduced a new program called “Cashback” on Live Search. We were thoroughly briefed and are currently under embargo about some details of the program. But, as others are reporting, it’s now live and you can investigate it from a consumer experience perspective. It also has advertiser aspects and implications.
It’s a pretty smart [...]

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