In case you haven’t heard, Google is going public. Danny Sullivan offers a closer look at the filing.

I could waste a lot of space in this blog covering the IPO — if you want to keep up with the latest, keep on eye on Watching Google Like a Hawk.

I am getting to this item late, but better than never, I suppose. National Public Radio ran a series of reports on the search engine wars a few weeks ago; the programs are all available for listening on one page.

So Amazon is getting into the search business, eh? Yesterday the online retail monster unveiled A9, which appears to be a promising new addition to the search engine world. First of all, it relies on Google’s search results, so you can’t go wrong there. But it also adds several intriguing features of its own.…

Ask Jeeves has introduced a new service that allows users to obtain biographical information of famous people as part of its Smart Search feature.

If you missed any search engine news during the month of March, you can catch up at Search Engine Watch with the Search Engine Milestones for March 2004.

Ditching Google as its search engine hasn’t appeared to cost Yahoo! any searchers. I guess that leads me to ask: did anyone even notice the change?

Google is now offering a new number range limiter, so you can specify results that contain numbers within a certain range. For example, if you want to check out DVD players in the $250-$350 range, you would type dvd player $250..$350. That’s the idea, anyway. I ran that search and received results both above…

This story is a bit old, but welcome news nonetheless: Google has finally updated its web directory, which has long been out of date.