Tag Archives : Search Engine

With the withdrawal of the search giant, Google Inc. from China, the nation’s foremost search engine, Baidu, has now chosen Microsoft Bing as its preferred search partner. This latest deal between Microsoft and Baidu calls for Bing to provide search results in English on Baidu’s website. As Google is considered to be the king of search in the [...]

  Google today unveiled a flurry of innovations designed to make the search easier, faster and more intuitive. But what is the real goal? Basically, go to your head and change the way you think. The Google researchers found that people are always looking for something. When the searches on desktops fall (during holidays, weekends or night), but [...]

How many times it has happened to you that you have loved a dress or a bag that you saw on a TV show and then wasted days looking around town for something similar and then given up in frustration. But now there is a search engine available that can do the looking around for you. FindThatStyle, a television fashion search engine, has just been launched. This [...]

By investing around 24 million dollars, the web content Blekko start working from today, after spending three years and some months being assessed by engineers (some ex-Google). The goal is to offer Web search and personalization using collaborative processes. The search engine was put on the air five hours ahead of schedule. Based on a phased roll-out [...]

Photographs produced by the service of Google Street View shows a pigeon “pooping” on the camera lens of one of company cars in the city of Los Angeles. This is the latest setback in Street View, an online tool that accompanies the Google service maps and satellite images that allows you to view street maps and satellite homes photographic in the [...]

Who to better predict the future of the Internet than Google? Thus, the Google boss has given his prognosis on what the Web will be like in 5 years. According to Google’s Eric Schmidt, ‘Chinese language will dominate the Web’ and that social media will reign supreme. The Google CEO believes the Internet will take a different look in five years, [...]

Yext, a popular local business search engine has resurfaced again after a long gap of action. This time around, Yext is back with a bang with their new product called “Yext Calls”, which has just been launched at the TechCrunch50 today. Yext Calls software will come handy for local businesses to process incoming phone calls and also organize [...]

While Google has been the most widely used search engine in the world, it has also begun to be viewed in a negative light thanks to the domination and authoritarian control it has come to exert on the World Wide Web. A single company controlling about 75% of web traffic and searches is something that is not only intimidating but also unhealthy. Thus [...]

The internet search engine giant, Google Inc. has begun to feel the ripple effect of the economic storm as well. As a measure to cut costs, 200 marketing and sales jobs are to be cut from its international operations. Google broke its record of over ten years of not cutting the mainstream jobs, as an unavoidable step to cope with the recession. The [...]

During a blackout of about three hours, an error message came up upon connecting to the Google mail service. Some sites suggest that one of the causes of the blackout could be the new feature ‘Choose your own colors’ which came into operation on February 19. This allows one to change the colors of the written page of his account. Google has [...]