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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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