http://www.rankdetective.com.com/Search Engine Resourceen-ushttp://www.rankdetective.com/rss.xmlhttp://www.rankdetective.com/news/google-patent-imagines-robots-indexing-the-grocery-aisle/3377/index.phpThe two computer scientists behind "recognizing text in images" search technology also worked on Google Street View and Google Book Search.http://www.rankdetective.com/news/google-pushing-hard-for-local-advertisers/3378/index.phpThe local search ad market has multi-billion dollar potential, and Google will work at keeping as much of that as possible in 2008. read morehttp://www.rankdetective.com/news/instant-messaging-banks-top-chinese-google-searches/3379/index.phpChinese banks and an instant messaging service topped the list of fastest-rising search terms on Google's Chinese Web site during 2007, the company said Wednesday.http://www.rankdetective.com/news/google-tool-could-search-out-hospital-superbugs/3380/index.phpTransmission of hospital-acquired infections could be cut using the algorithm Google uses to rank search results, say researchershttp://www.rankdetective.com/news/google-will-continue-to-dominate-search-market-in-2008-analysts-say/3369/index.phpBoth Hitwise and ComScore put Google in first place by a wide margin, with Yahoo second and Microsoft third.http://www.rankdetective.com/news/google-s-market-share-tops-65-percent/3371/index.phpGoogle may not have monopoly power, but it certainly has monopoly mind share.http://www.rankdetective.com/news/researchers-question-yahoo-answers/3359/index.phpStanford University researchers analyzed 10 months worth of content from Yahoo's popular Answers service to learn about the people using it and where it might go in the future. http://www.rankdetective.com/news/wikipedia-open-source-search-project-to-challenge-google/3360/index.phpWikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has set January 7th as the launch date for an open-source search project, dubbed Wikia Search; that eventually hopes to challenge Google and other established players.