Google has begun auto-stemming some of its searches. Here’s how it will work. Greg Notess states that this new feature may help relevance in some cases, but there are two potential problems: 1) it will be frustrating for searches looking for precise results; and 2) Google really should give users an option to “turn on”…

Vivisimo, one of my favorite search tools, has been named one of the the Top 100 ‘companies that matter most in digital content management’ by EContent Magazine. If this site isn’t one of the tools in your search arsenal, you’re really missing out.

Yesterday’s SearchDay has a terrific article on how the future of search will rely on searching with invisible tabs. Chris makes an interesting observation; that when people go to a search engine (or any website, for that matter), they often don’t see that there are navigation tabs across the top of the page that…

Like clockwork, Chris Sherman has posted the Search Engine Milestones for November 2003. Catch up on what’s new in search engines here.

PC Magazine features an article on how Google has become an online cultural icon in I Search, Therefore I Google. The article includes a fun link to a snapshot of Google in 1998. Interesting how things have changed — but not much.

AOL has purchased SingingFish, the audio/video search engine I mentioned back in February. Danny Sullivan has the lowdown on the purchase, as well as other search enhancements at AOL.

That’s my opinion, anyway — in general, Yellow Page search sites aren’t very accurate, and don’t have great results. Maybe the Yellow Page publishers don’t want these sites to be very good; after all, usage of the print version is declining. Dick Larkin reports on how other search engines are getting into local search.

There has been some talk lately about whether the White House has been preventing portions of its website from being indexed by search engines. Danny Sullivan points to a good explanation of the goings-on here. Whether it’s being done intentionally or not, it’s an interesting lesson on the inner workings of how search