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A preview into the future of Google?

22-11-2006 - Operated by the search giant, SearchMash.com is a testing ground for user interface changes that may end up as integral parts of the Google.com search engine, a company spokeswoman said via e-mail according to Infoworld.

"The goal of SearchMash is to test innovative user interfaces in order to continually improve the overall search experience for our users," she noted.

SearchMash.com sports a radically different design from Google's Web sites. Google hopes the site will yield more objective feedback from users, the spokeswoman said.

SearchMash went online recently and can only handle limited traffic, which may render it unavailable sometimes, she wrote.

Google.com's famously minimalistic look revolutionized Web user interfaces in the late 1990s, when home pages tended toward a cluttered look. Over the years, Google has been conservative about altering its site's design, so changes often attract wide attention.

When Google runs user interface tests on google.com, they invariably get reported about in the blogosphere along with screen shots and a heavy dose of speculation over the chances the changes have of being permanent.

Yahoo opens up e-email program code

02-10-2006 - Yahoo announced over the weekend that it was opening up the code of its popular online email service. By doing so, the Sunnyvale, Calif. company hopes to inspire new applications built around Yahoo Mail used by over a quarter billion users worldwide according to the company.

Live.com is now live!

13-09-2006 - In a bid to oust Google from the search space, Microsoft on Tuesday launched Live.com, its new search engine. Live.com boasts a simplified design and features like those of Google.

iWebMa Keyword Position Tool published

10-08-2006 - Today iWebMa published english language online keyword position tool. It helps customers collecting relevant keyword position information about their websites from 3 main search engines, Google, Yahoo! and MSN, side by side. We used AJAX technology for the maximal user interface experience.

Yahoo launches Search Builder

08-08-2006 - Yahoo Search Builder lets website owners select the websites they want included in their search engine's index, the Sunnyvale, California, company announced on 07 Aug. If publishers don't want to assemble the index manually, they can also tune the main Yahoo search engine to focus on the topic of their choice. For more information about the Search Builder, visit Yahoo.