Search Engines

Google Inc. has made it easier for the users of Google Maps to save and re-visit the places that matter to them. Once the user signs in to his Google account, he can access the places that are frequently visited by him virtually. This has been made possible after the release of a recent Google Maps update for the web version. The update enables the user to define specific home and work locations that... Read More »

What are the basic things that you consider while choosing a restaurant? For many of you, great food and hygiene are among the top considerations. There are many web services and websites that let you choose a nearby restaurant based on such parameters. But, what about the ambience of the restaurant or the eating joint that you have selected? Yes, here comes the world’s first website that can help... Read More »

The keyword data retrieved by the search engine of Google is bringing big benefits to businesses. Taking advantage of the next generation’s obsession with smartphones and mobile phones is a new application from Google – Mobile Keyword Tool. This tool provides comprehensive data on local, paid and other SEO based mobile searches which have grown over the past 2 years to five times. Your advent... Read More »

Yahoo! is famous for services and software such as Yahoo! Mail, search engine, Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Messenger. Google is the owner of the most popular search engine and also offers software such as Google Chrome. Yahoo! and Google both are leaders in their own right and since a while there has been speculation about a partnership between Yahoo! Japan and Google. Recently they were evaluated by... Read More »

Two Harvard professors claim that their researches on search and search results on Google and Yahoo! search engines return biased results favoring the two search engines. It has been seen that a search on Google returns Gmail, YouTube, etc., which is exactly the kind of algorithms they follow. So much for their claims of using other websites, they return three times more results pertaining to their... Read More »

Bing is a search engine that was launched by Microsoft with some additional features. The basic functionalities of Bing have been kept the same. Bing has a variety of specialized search options. On 11th February of 2011, Microsoft announced that Bing has been incorporated with software that makes use of user location to know a little more about the location of the user. This new feature in Bing has... Read More »

GoogleEnhancer 1.85 is an add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It enhances the results of the Google search engine. It is available as an add-on feature in Mozilla Firefox. It is downloadable for free from a variety of websites. The Firefox extended search tool add-on has several features that can define it as a tool that numbers the search results. It uses a simple numbering tool to enumerate... Read More »

Real time search engines are those that display very recently published materials. There remains practically no difference between composition and publishing of the materials. Twitter can come close to explaining the meaning of real time search engines. Real time search engine Collecta, was launched on June 18, 2009. The distinguishing feature of Collecta was that unlike other search engines the website... Read More »

How often we need to search for things we all know! The activity of searching is so important that at times we wish we have a search option to look for the lost objects in our homes. This is the height of our dependence on the search engines. The war between the search engines is of utmost importance just because of this indispensable need of search engines. But one important fact that has been observed... Read More »

Bing Visual Search allows the “search by picture” feature, integrating the Silverlight technology, based on the .NET framework and Windows Presentation Foundation. It is a cross platform and a cross browser plug-in. The next generation Microsoft .NET offers media experience and rich interactive applications for the web, with features similar to those of Adobe Flash. Silverlight is compatible with... Read More »

Bing is a search engine developed by Microsoft in 2009. In July 2009, there was a partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft. Bing was integrated into the site to replace the search engine of Yahoo! in the U.S. and Canada. Currently, Brazil, Mexico and Australia are also affected by this change. The transition took place in stages and will cover France also in near future. The integration of Bing and... Read More »

Google is American multinational public corporation which was founded in 1998 by Sergey M. Brin and Lawrence E. Page. The company was started as only a search engine. Today they provide various service on internet like clouding computing, internet search and advertising technologies. They develop and host various products and internet based services and derived profit from advertising through its... Read More »

According to the last year report of the analytical agency comScore  in  the month of June, the share of Bing in the U.S. search market reached 12.7%. A year ago, Microsoft controlled 8.4% of search of the U.S. market. Significant growth has provided a powerful advertising and transactions with computer manufacturers who chose Bing as the default search engine on the PC produced, writes CNET.... Read More »

According to BoardPoint Amtech analyst Schaster, “Overall, the trends continue to be very strong for Bing, and remain very bad for Yahoo,” he also wrote that ”Investors hoping that tonight’s data would show stabilization for Yahoo will be disappointed…Unfortunately for Yahoo, we still do not see a bottom for its potential share loss.” Yahoo saw the twelfth consecutive... Read More »

Microsoft and Google cooperation is still holding a big share of United State search-engine market, while Yahoo Inc. has lost its search engine market in U.S. as per the data collected by ComScore Inc. in month. The data collected in the survey by ComScore Inc. reveals that the share of Google rose to 66.6 % in the month of December, while it was 66.2 % in the month of November. This shows that Google... Read More »

The fight between the search engines is still on and all the search engines are coming up with something new to fascinate the users and increase their market share. Though there are many but only Google and Bing stay in news. Bing is comparatively new search engine in the market and so it is trying hard to gain acceptability and popularity in the market. In just one and a half year Bing has gained... Read More »

Last year Microsoft Corporation unveiled Bing a new decision engine and consumer brand which is providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster and more informed decisions. Bing is specifically designed to build 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... Read More »

Microsoft is working hard to compete with the search master Google and is constantly emerging with new ideas and additions into its search engine BING. BING has been into existence for quite some time now but still it is in the evolution phase. Microsoft has recently tied up its hands with other giants of the market to enhance the search and the results of BING search. Microsoft collaborated with... Read More »

There are several search engines available like Google, Yahoo and Bing. Bingis Microsoft’s “decision” engine, which according to it’s sources enables users to take effective decisions rather than just display search results. Bing is also getting as popular as Google. In this article we will discuss the features that we like the best, and find themost useful. One-stop shopping You... Read More »

Bing the new Search Engine by Microsoft is slowly and steadily making its move in various data stores to broaden its searching capabilities. It is intelligently targeting private data stores like Facebook, Libraries and other sources so that its database increases and the probability of users getting the correct search result increases. Recently Bing joined hands with Facebook so that it can give... Read More »

In an age when people hardly get enough time to do anything much beyond their work and related matters, they like to save as much time as possible. As Internet is one such medium on which most people are dependent to do projects and research, they want the information to be available to them within seconds. Earlier it was not possible as connection to the Internet was not that speedy. However, now... Read More »

The present generation of students has had a tremendous amount of new age facilities. This has assisted them in matters not only specific to course related material, but also in better understanding of the overall environment. The Internet facility, with technology dishing out new age Wireless networks and routers every fortnight, is one such assistance which has proved to be extremely helpful. This... Read More »

It was exactly two years ago when Google set to enter the browser market. With the release of Google chrome in September 2008, Google has now released the Chrome 6.0 with minor tweaks. So far Chrome as a browser has proven “sleek” especially with the simplicity of navigation, larger open space to view Internet content and the fastest load time to upload pages.  By secure Chrome 6 future in the... Read More »

There is no scope for Yahoo and Microsoft in order to compete with Google search as it is globally capturing the market. The space for search has been motionless for the last couple of years and at the same time Google is strongly commanding the Internet world. Microsoft decided to grab up Yahoo’s search engine so that they can get benefits through the market and to spend billions of dollars so... Read More »

The eminent social networking website and micro blogging giant Twitter Inc. had been trying to make a paradigm shift in the perception of worldwide consumers, into being known as an information network and not just a social network. Their efforts at rebranding seem to have paid off, if statistics are to be believed. VentureBeat spoke to Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter at the Aspen Ideas Festival... Read More »