Tag Archives : Web search engine

  Google has just released a tool to help monitor mentions of your name and act to protect the reputation of the company when you find questionable information and references. Called “Me on the Web” or “I on the Web”, it is directed to persons and companies interested in tracking online references to their names and information [...]

The attacks that happened to Google that took the Internet company to suspend its operations in China was led by two members of the main regulatory body in China. So say U.S. diplomatic documents recently published by WikiLeaks and cited by The New York Times. Citing documents, the newspaper says China executed repeated and often successful attacks [...]

At an event held today in the United States, Facebook and Microsoft Bing announced a new partnership, highlighting the tools of social search. Bing will add more content from Facebook social search results. Starting today, when accessing the site of Bing with your Facebook account, you’ll see links that your friends have “liked” in [...]

On 8 September, Google launched the service that we know today as Instant Search. As the user typed in the search field of research, the results would be formed, again according to content inserted into the search box. A few weeks later, it was time the Full Page Preview feature allows Internet users to move the cursor over the snippet (links and page [...]

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 [...]

Google has reshaped the way to present results of local searches. The goal is to eliminate redundant items and consolidate as much relevant information. The system was also renamed, to be renamed the Place and located on the left side of the interface searches. From now on, when the internet user is looking for services such as restaurants, hotels [...]

An agency of the Chinese government launched a satellite mapping service, designed to compete with the popular satellite mapping service Google Earth, which may represent new problems for Google’s operations in mainland China. Google and China are at odds since last year, when a serious attack of hackers originating in the Asian country took [...]

A study by the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California (USC), USA, points out that Internet users are not willing to pay for online services. According to the survey, 49% of American Internet users have used free services like Twitter. When asked if they would accept to pay to use the tool, 0% said yes. The poll found [...]

One of the coolest in the history of Google, which helped the company become the leader when it comes to searching the internet, was the launch of Google Images in 2001. Initially, the service had 250 million images attached to the system – in 2010, that number has surpassed 10 billion and growing every day. Although the field of search engine [...]

The Foursquare is a kind of social network based on geotagged, which lets people make check-ins in certain places, accumulate points and symbolic insignia. Its users can publish information about the places where they are, in real time. The company is negotiating with Internet giants including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to provide this information. According [...]