Don’t miss SearchDay’s wrap-up of search engine milestones for July.

AllTheWeb now features the ability to search for Excel and PowerPoint files. To limit your search to these file types, use the syntax filetype:excel or filetype:powerpoint. (Via ResourceShelf)

SearchDay reports that HotBot has renamed the engines it searches, apparently because of name recognition problems. It turns out users did not recognize the search engines Teoma, Inktomi, andFAST Search, but they do know about HotBot (powered by Inktomi), Lycos (powered by FAST), and AskJeeves (powered by Teoma). It’s all in

Those of you who read this blawg regularly probably know that the folks over at Google Watch are no fans of Google. Here’s a link toWhy We Target Google, which neatly lays out all of the major arguments against the mega-search giant.

Not happy with your search results? Now you can get a second opinion from Lycos. Just download the Lycos SideSearch, and you can view Lycos search results alongside those of other major search engines.

The latest Google Friends newsletter features an interview with Krishna Barat of Google News. Check out the rest of this month’s issue, too.

In yet another in a recent string of “let’s not get too carried away with Google” articles, Slate notes, in Digging for Googleholes, that “we’re wrong to think of Google as a pure reference source. It’s closer to a collectively authored op-ed page—filled with bias, polemics, and a skewed sense of proportion—than an…

Yahoo! will purchase Overture for an estimated $1.6 billion. If you’ll recall, previously this year Overture purchased AltaVista andAllTheWeb.

This reminds me of the cartoons I used to watch where one fish is swallowed by a bigger fish, only to be swallowed by an even bigger fish. The number of fish is getting