Decade in Search : InfoGraphic from Razorfish
Razorfish has released an awesome info-graphic, charting a decade in search – it needs a great monitor to see the whole thing, but the draggable canvas effect is pretty nice. [Read More...]
Google ‘look-alike’ Search emerges in China.
A new search engine Goojje search has been noticed in China. Apart from sounding similar to Google, it also copies the loogo of Google and includes the Baidu logo in its own. [Read More...]
FIX: Search box does not display search results correctly in Windows 7
Microsoft has released a hotfix to resolve an issue, where the Search programs and files box may not be displaying the search results correctly in Windows 7 and in Windows 2008 R2. [Read More...]
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit from Microsoft
The free Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Analyzer helps you increase traffic and visitors to your site, and as a result can increase the revenue you directly or indirectly make through your web-site. [Read More...]
Microsoft and News Corp eye web search pact
Microsoft is ready to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to remove its news content from Google, according to the Financial Times. [Read More...]
Google x4 is GoogleGoogleGoogleGoolge
If you are in one of those searching moods and have plenty of search tabs open you might tend to lose the search results. GoogleGoogleGoogleGoolge lets you search Google x4 times on the same open tab! [Read More...]
Will Microsoft buy Ask.com now ?
Speculation is mounting about who will buy Ask.com when the “for sale” sign starts dangling from the struggling search engine’s marquee. [Read More...]
Google adds Jump To Information feature to Search
Google has enhanced the search snippet with two new features that make it easier to find information buried deep within a page. [Read More...]
Google Homepage through the years … Changes again!
If you have opened the Google homepage recently, you may have noticed one thing immediately! [Read More...]
Halal Search Engine Launched!
A Kosher search engine … a Halal browser? And now … a Halal Search Engine has been launched! [Read More...]
Study : Google vs Bing – Search Engine Preferences
This study by Catalyst Group has gathered users’ general impressions of the Google and Bing search engines, including overall functionality, presentation of content, and overall fit with user expectations and needs. [Read More...]
Kids search for Sex, Porn & Fred … err Fred who??
Between February 2009 and July 2009, Symantec tracked a total of 3.5 million searches that were submitted by users of their OnlineFamily.Norton service. The list of search terms was ranked from those submitted most frequently to those submitted the least. In order to be included in the list of kids’ top search terms, a search term had to have been submitted at least 50 times by registered users of OnlineFamily.Norton. [Read More...]
Microsoft, Yahoo! deal confirmed – Change Search Landscape
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. [Read More...]
Change the Location of Search Index in Windows 7.
You may, if you wish, chose to change the default location of search index in Windows 7. It is, by default, stored at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data folder, which is a hidden system folder. [Read More...]
The Blind Search Engine Test – Google vs Bing vs Yahoo
What happens when you do a search that doesn’t have branding. Are you swayed by the branding of your favourite search engines? Take the Blind Search Engine Test. [Read More...]
Bing overtakes Yahoo Search global share.
Global monitoring service StatCounter findings are suggesting that Bing, Microsoft’s newest search Decision Engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service worlwide. [Read More...]
Time to Bing It, now !
Microsoft recently unveiled Bing, a new Search Decision Engine and consumer brand, providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster, more informed decisions.
Bing is specifically designed to build on the benefits of today’s search engines but begins to move beyond this experience with a new approach to user experience and intuitive tools to help customers make better decisions, focusing initially on four key vertical areas: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business. [Read More...]
Google unveils new Search Options
At its second annual Searchology event at its Mountain View California headquarters, Google rolled out new Web search features and an update to its “Sky Map” that can allow users of its mobile phones to figure out which constellations they are looking at in the night sky. [Read More...]
Download Windows 7 Federated Search Provider’s Guide
This updated document from Microsoft describes how to build a web-based data source that can be searched using Windows federated search. Following the best practices described here, you can enable rich integration of your remote data sources with Windows Explorer without having to write or deploy any Windows client-side code. [Read More...]
