News: Google Announces Social Search

Posted In: Google Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer has just made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo: a new Google Labs feature called Social Search. They just gave a quick demo of the new feature. While the details are still sparse, here ...

Search War: Google vs Facebook

Posted In: Facebook, Google, News, Twitter It’s no coincidence that Facebook launched a new real-time search engine on the same day that it bought FriendFeed and Google announced a new infrastructure project aimed at speeding up its indexing time. Make no mistake about it: people that know ...

Google Launching a New Version of Google Search

Posted In: Google, News Google has a giant target on its back. Microsoft has been on a spending and deal-making spree to grow Bing (Bing), recently signing a huge search deal with Yahoo. And with Bing starting to steal some market share from Google, it’s ...

Facebook Launches Realtime Search | WATCH OUT TWITTER!

Posted In: Facebook, News, Twitter Facebook’s on a roll today. Earlier today, Facebook acquired FriendFeed, one of the largest and most-discussed social media acquisitions we’ve seen in a long time. The deal is partly seen as a move by the world’s largest social network to boost their social technology, ...

Google Adds More Options To Image Search

Posted In: Google, News Image search is an area of intense competition between Google, Yahoo, and now Bing. Today, Google Images added some search options to make it easier to filter a search by color, type (face, photo, clip art, line drawing), and file size. Most of these ...

Google vs. Microsoft: Will This Time Be Different?

Posted In: Google, Microsoft, News The deal is done: Yahoo Search is soon to be Bing. Yahoo cuts costs by ditching search technology, both companies share ad revenue, but most importantly, Microsoft now controls a bit less than 1/3 of the search engine market. All of this money, deal-making, and reinvention is ...

Yahoo Got Binged

Posted In: Microsoft, News, Web Browsers Today, Yahoo died as a search engine. If the deal with Microsoft is approved, what will replace it will be Bing, the search engine that Microsoft launched only two months ago. Within a few months time, Microsoft will go from owning 8 percent of the ...

Bing is the New Google, In One Way

Posted In: Google, Microsoft, Web Browsers It’s official: Yahoo is dumping its own search technology in favor of Microsoft’s Bing. Although searches conducted on Yahoo will still have the company’s branding and interface, for at least the next decade, the results will be based on Bing’s algorithms. However, this isn’t the first ...

Google Finally Adds Creative Commons To Image Search

Posted In: Google, News As a blogger, I search Flickr and other photo sites for Creative Commons commercial licensed content on a daily basis. I like Google’s image search feature but the ability to search Creative Commons and other licensed content was a missing. Today, ...

Twoogle Combines Both Google and Twitter Search Results

Posted In: General, News, Twitter, Web Browsers Personally, I don’t think search engine are so useful anymore. Nowadays we have Twitter as most of Internet users are concerned with breaking news and everyone is using the micro-blogging service to tell the world what has happened. I’m not saying that Google is not useful ...