Tag: "Search"
What is Google Social Search and why do I care?
Google Social SearchThe latest news in the Google-sphere is that yesterday the global search giant announced their social search results will no longer be hidden at the bottom of the results page but will now be integrated with the normal results. But what does this really mean – does it spell a search revolution or is it a tad overrated?
Read More | ShareAttack of the Google bomb
There was a time not long ago when a Google search for “Holocaust” revealed top results indicating that it didn’t happen. In 1999, a search using the Google search engine for “more evil than Satan himself” would have led to the Microsoft homepage. Leading up to the Iraq war, an online hunt for “weapons of […]
Read More | ShareSearch for Facebook deals in Australia soon – facebook.com/deals
With the deal a day market becoming increasingly competitive over the past couple months, Google trying to buy GroupOn in the US, Yahoo Australia buying spreets.com.au for $40 million AUD – Facebook is now getting in on the action with their own deals service through their mobile check-in platform. If you use a Facebook mobile […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Periodic Table of APIs
Google is now probably the largest internet company in the world. With this comes a huge amount of data and wide range of Google service APIs – allowing developers all around the world to build applications and services using Google’s platforms. Trying to understand how they all interrelate, and just finding out the total number […]
Read More | ShareGoogle: The numbers
Sometimes is seems like Google is taking over the web. Everywhere you turn there is some kind of Google service. It’s interesting to have a look at Google’s history and how the company has grown. Have a think about the following Google statistics: – In 1996, Google has 25 million pages in their search index. […]
Read More | ShareGoogle launches Google Instant Search
Google has launched their latest search engine update – Google Instant Search. As you are typing in your query to the search engine, Google (using predictive text input) suggests possible search queries you may be looking for. Once step further from there is that if you are quickly running new searches – Google refreshes the […]
Read More | ShareYahoo USA and Canada Search now powered by Bing
Yahoo US and Canada now has its search results powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Yahoo will also be moving its advertisers across to Microsoft’s adCenter platform but that is still very much a work in progress. more to come as we hear local Australian news on this venture.
Read More | ShareWindows Phone 7 In Depth: A Fresh Start for Microsoft
The Windows 7 Phone is a fresh start for Microsoft. Microsoft can use this device as a foundation to build something totally new, and it’s very much different to any other phone you’ve used. The phone utilises and manages many of the different Microsoft products and services – Bing, Xbox Live, Zune to name a […]
Read More | ShareTwitter search queries growing 33%, up to 800 million
Twitter is now supporting 800 million search queries a day, which is a 33% rise from the 600 million per day reported previously in April (on an average day). This means Twitter is now handling around 24 billion search queries a month. Comscore reported that Bing was generating 4.1 billion monthly queries worldwide while Yahoo […]
Read More | ShareBingbot replacing MSNbot in October
Over the last couple month the Bing web team has been busy refining and rolling our improvements to their web crawling software that indexes website on Bing.com On October 1st 2010, MSNbot will cease to crawl and will be replaced by Bingbot. This will show in your server logs as: bingbot/2.0 The HTTP header From […]
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