Since its purchase of AllTheWeb, Overture has apparently been busy making improvements to the search engine. Some of these were discussed by Gary Price over at ResourceShelf:

• Clustered results — perform a search and you’ll find your results clustered into categories at the bottom of the page
• URL Investigator — just enter a

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With all Google has to offer, is anybody surprised that 55.2 percent of Internet users prefer Google as a search tool? There’s no question that AllTheWeb and Teoma offer terrific research capabilities (interestingly, they aren’t even mentioned in this survey), but Google is still at the top of the heap.

Often, I feel that there are so many features offered by Google that it’s hard to keep up. Now you don’t have to — yesterday’s SearchDay discusses Google World, a directory of links on all things Google. Lots to explore here, and it’s a good reference to boot.

News search tool Google News has launched several regional versions of its terrific service. Included are beta versions for the following countries:

• Australia
• Canada
• India
• New Zealand
• United Kingdom

The pages all contain many of the same stories, but they are all tailored to the particular country, offering a separate section on news from that…

Those of you who visit the blogosphere regularly know that Google is a good friend to the weblog; through the PageRank system, weblog pages often rise to the top of search results. Unfortunately, this can sometimes lead to a lot of irrelevant results at the top of a search.

Now it appears Google will offer…

Is your website not getting the traffic it deserves? Perhaps this tutorial on search engine marketing will help.

Danny Sullivan at SearchDay offers a look at Yahoo!’s new search interface.

Yesterday’s SearchDay provides a quick tutorial on how search engines make sense of the web through indexing.