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How Social Is Google Social Search?
1st February 2010
Google has now released Social Search in beta for all users. While this could mark the start of an exciting new era in organic search engine optimisation, there is one severe limitation to this feature. More »
Social Networks More Popular Than Search In Australia
28th January 2010
Data released by Hitwise has shown that over the last few weeks, social networking sites have become more popular than search engines in Australia. More »
Microsoft Plans To Make Hay While Google Battles China
20th January 2010
Following Google’s recent declaration that the search engine might pull out of China if it is not allowed to show uncensored search results, the spotlight has also fallen on rival, Microsoft, who has also started operations in China. More »
Google Caffeine Readying For Launch
4th January 2010
While everyone has been talking about how Google is integrating more and more real time search results with the help of sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, there is the less visible algorithm that powers search results, which Google has been working on making more real time. More »
Hulu Launches Video Scene Search
29th December 2009
Online video service Hulu, which allows viewers to watch TV series and movies online, has recently launched a new feature called Captions Search. More »
Microsoft Could Buy Ask.com
4th November 2009
How far will Microsoft go, in their bid to increase the market share of their search engine Bing?
The latest rumour making the rounds is that Microsoft may buy Ask.com, which has been up for sale for a long time now. Barry Diller, the Chairman of InterActive Corp, the parent company of Ask.com, has said that the search market is challenging, and he would be quite willing to part with his search engine (In exchange, for appropriate remuneration, of course.) More »
Can Social Media Overtake Search Engines?
13th October 2009
It has been noticed of late that more and more people are turning to social media instead of the usual portals or search engines when they want to find out something online. More »
View Pages As Googlebot Via Webmaster Tools
12th October 2009
Two new tools went live on Google Webmaster Tools today under a new section called ‘Labs’. The new tools are called Malware details and Fetch as Googlebot. More »
Google Trends In Google Search
1st October 2009
With millions of users all over the world using Google search everyday, certain topics are bound to be very popular or ‘Hot’ among searchers at any given point of time. Google will now inform users about the popularity of such topics when a user searches for them. More »
Is Search Traffic Not Always The Best?
17th September 2009
According to a report released recently by HubSpot, search is no longer necessarily the best source of traffic for online marketers. More »
100 Billion Searches A Month And Still None The Wiser
3rd September 2009
A study of the global search market undertaken by comScore recently found that over 113 billion searches were carried out online in July 2009. More »
Yahoo! Tests New Search Interface
28th August 2009
Now that both the leading search engines Google and Microsoft have made innovations to the way their search results are presented, it was only a matter of time before Yahoo! did the same thing. More »
Google Search Gets A Shot Of Caffeine
13th August 2009
When Microsoft Launches a new search engine, could Google be far behind? Of course not! Hot on the heels of BingTweets, Google announced on the Webmaster Central Blog that they will soon launch a new and upgraded version of their search engine. More »
Baidu Steals Share From Google
7th August 2009
Google is experiencing, probably for the first time in a very long time, what it feels like to not be the first in a race. More »
Microsoft-Yahoo! Finally Strike A Deal
29th July 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo! have been in talks with each other for a possible partnership for ages now, but they have finally reached a mutually acceptable agreement. More »
Google AdWords Driving Export Business
23rd July 2009
Google is driving AdWords advertising revenues by exploring some decidedly different markets. Last week we noted that they were offering Google Webmaster Tools users in France 100 € free credit on AdWords. This week they’re emailing small and medium enterprises offering advice on entering the export market. More »
Hotmail Integrates Bing With Quick Add
14th July 2009
When Bing was launched, Microsoft had stated that further developments were in progress, and users could expect new features in due course. True to their word, they have added a new feature recently. More »
Google Flipper
29th June 2009
In keeping with their practice of improving existing services or introducing new ones, Google is in the process of updating their Google News site. More »
Will Google Start A Micro-Blogging Search Engine?
15th June 2009
The ever growing popularity of the micro-blogging site, Twitter, and the large number of microblogs being constantly posted on it, have made it extremely difficult for users to find exactly what they are looking for. More »
Bing! Microsoft Might Have A Winner
4th June 2009
After the recent launch of Microsoft Bing last week, the initial reviews for this new ‘decision engine did not seem to be very encouraging. Now, however, only a few days later, the situation seems to be changing. More »
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