Google founder Sergey Brin has been chatting up the search engine lately. He sat down at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in August for this fireside chat. This week, he and co-founder Larry Page were interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air. You can find the interview on this page; just click on “Listen…

Tara Calashain discusses 20 Great Google Secrets over at PC Magazine. Many of these tips have been discussed right here with yours truly. They certainly are worth reviewing again.

Maybe, says The Register. They’re calling it a “Google-NACK” (NACK = Negative ACKnowledgement), and it happens when Google tells you there are thousands of results for a search query, but fails to return those results. Seth Finkelstein argues that this is happening because ofproblems with Google’s anti-spam software. Greg Notess has this…

Have you tried meta-search tool Copernic yet? It’s a terrific stand-alone product that queries thousands of search engine and compiles them in an easy-to-review format. Now the company is expanding its products, offering a search product for small-to-medium-sized businesses.

In August of 2002, the FCC urged various search engines to more clearly indicate paid listings, or face possible action. A year later, although largely pleased with search engines’ attempts to disclose listings as “sponsored,” the agency is still concerned that consumers might still be confused about sponsored search results.

Ever wonder how the search engine companies came up with those (sometimes bizarre) names? Wonder no more; Chris Sherman over atSearchDay provides a handy dictionary to the most popular (but hey, where’s Vivisimo?).

Meta-search tool Dogpile has updated its Toolbar add-on to include some interesting new features. You can now see ABC News headlines streaming across the toolbar, and use the toolbar to block pop-up ads. If somebody’s using it, let me know how the pop-up blocker works — I’m interested to know if it’s as good