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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 »
How Soon Will Mobile Search Catch Up With PC?
1st June 2009
When search services were first started on mobile phones, they were very basic, almost rudimentary in nature. However things have changed with emerging technology, and now search patterns on the latest mobile handsets are getting closer to those on PC’s. More »
Microsoft Creates A New Decision Engine
29th May 2009
Microsoft is planning to make some major changes in the way search results are provided to their users. In fact, they are planning to launch a conceptually new ‘Decision Engine’ that could revolutionise the way users think about search. More »
Google Suggest Includes Links And Ads
26th May 2009
Google Suggest has been recently updated to include link suggestions as well as sponsored links along with the list of suggestions. More »
Google Search Options Panel
20th May 2009
A few days ago, Google announced the launch of their new Search Options Panel. This new feature will enable users to have more control over their search results, as they will be able to sort out the results with reference to time and content. More »
Twitter Search To Start Indexing Web Content
12th May 2009
Santosh Jayaram, the new V.P. of Operations at Twitter recently said that they will soon start crawling and indexing links that are posted on Twitter. This means that Twitter search results could include several web pages that are crawled from links within tweets. More »
Yahoo! Updates Image Search, Quality Better Than Google
9th April 2009
Yahoo! recently overhauled the Yahoo! Image Search Preview page, with the intention of making it more interesting and user friendly for their clients. The result is a more modern feature that looks like a “Web 2.0” image gallery. More »
Is Google About To Acquire Twitter?
3rd April 2009
Undisclosed sources have apparently informed TechCrunch that Google is holding negotiations to buy over the popular microblogging site Twitter. More »
Where Do People Go From Twitter?
18th March 2009
It has long been felt that people go downstream to Twitter from sites such as Google and Facebook. However, a recent post from analytics firm Hitwise, shows that the reverse is also true. More »
Is Facebook Sending More Traffic Than Google?
12th March 2009
According to recent findings from the analytics company Hitwise, Facebook is now sending more traffic to some sites than Google. More »
Integrating Search Into Twitter
26th February 2009
Twitter is testing an integrated search feature on their main site. The test is currently available in beta to a handful of signed in users. More »
US Search Engine Market Share Data – Jan 2009
25th February 2009
According to the latest qSearch analysis of the major U.S. search engines carried out by comScore, search continues to grow and little has changed in terms of market share of the top 5 search providers. More »
Speculation About Google Ending MySpace Relationship
23rd February 2009
If speculative reports from analysts at Barclay’s are to be believed, Google may soon decide to end their search monetisation deal with MySpace. More »
Will The Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal Be Revived?
14th January 2009
It looks as though there is no end in sight for the Microsoft-Yahoo! acquisition deal. More »
Live Search On Dell PCs And Verizon Mobile Phones
12th January 2009
During his keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2009 last week, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, made some exciting new announcements about Microsoft Live Search. To begin with, Ballmer said that Microsoft has entered into a 3-year agreement with Dell. More »
Google Asks For Product Ideas
2nd January 2009
In their effort to gauge and fulfill the needs of their users, Google has launched a new website for product ideas and a blog to support it. More »
Yahoo! Appeases Privacy Advocates
23rd December 2008
Only last week we had reported that Yahoo! had said that they would store user data for a period of 13 months. In quite a sudden about-turn they have now decided to delete the personal data from their data bases in 3 months. After 3 months, all the user log data as well as data from page views, page clicks and ad views and clicks will be deleted. More »
EU And Search Engines Battle Over Privacy Laws
18th December 2008
It is a well known fact that search engines retain data regarding the searches conducted by their clients for a long period of time. While they may have their reasons for doing so, the EU has taken objection to this practice, as it affects the privacy of users. More »
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