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Google added a new option for searching recent blog entries all over the sphere. The goal is to include every blog that publishes a site feed. It seems to work like Technorati Search, so last entries are listed on top plus dynamic updated feeds for search results.

... blogsearch.google.com

"Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly."

Google Sitemaps (BETA) Help
(via theunofficialgoogleweblog)

Google Watch has up some infos about our famous search "evil" engine Google. Some facts and fiction to learn about the guys that catch 200 million searches per day.

Yahoo released its Audio Search that includes audio from and information about a wide range of audio publishers. It looks across a collection of online music services (e.g., iTunes, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Garageband.com) and audio files on the Web and lists all places where you can download specific files.

... http://audio.search.yahoo.com/

Google is testing a new search feature within its search results. It's an expandable content that can display more information about a site including an image and a short text based on the content of the site, Related links, and "Inside this site" links.

Google seems to be really busy those days. After announcing Google Earth and Google Print they also extended their service for indexing your own website.

"Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index."

See how it works in detail on the Google Sitemap Pages:
... https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

(via Searchengine Journal)

You can search for unknown parts of words with an asterix. Typing corn*, *flakes or *lake* will return stories containing the word cornflakes.
You can also use an questionmark if one single character is unknown. So you gonna get your result if you ask for ?ornflakes.
Furthermore if you append the tilde sign at the end of an word, Typolis would find all words that sounds like the requested. lake~ will return all entries containing "lake", "like", "bake", "late" ... and so on.
The search also supports the boolean operators "AND", "OR", "NOT", "+" and "-".

If you want to learn more about how to improve your search requests, consult the Lucene Query Syntax.

Great via buzzle.com

Source Code Search Engine. To lookup in 205,234,850 lines of code: ... http://www.koders.com/

There are over 100 Search Engine Optimization factors that Google uses to rank pages in the Google search results. Here is the speculation - educated guesses by SEO webmasters on top webmaster forums. Various confirmed and suspected Google SEO Rules are listed at Ranking Factors - SEO List.