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Google is enabling developers to improve their custom search engines by enabling them to search for images via the Custom Search API. Image search was already available via the standard Google Custom Search Engines, but it is now available via the new API as well.
The API offers more flexibility than the custom sear... |
15 February 2012
07:13 GMT |
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Google has gained market share for the second month in a row, while Yahoo continues to bleed. Bing has solidified its number two spot and distanced itself from Yahoo, though mostly because Yahoo is continuing to fall and not because Bing is gaining.
Google finished January with a 66.2 percent market share, as define... |
10 February 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Google's Image Search received a major update with the introduction of "visual search" i.e. the possibility of searching via an image, either from your computer or from the web.
This feature though opened up all sorts of new possibilities. One very interesting use of the visual search feature as well as the mod... |
10 February 2012
09:12 GMT |
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It's official, the old black navbar is back. Well, actually a hybrid of the old black bar and the new unified header has been set loose and this is the final version of the Google bar, at least for now, rolling out to everyone in the next few weeks.
The black navbar was introduced about the time Google+ was lau... |
10 February 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Google is always experimenting with new designs, new features and changes. It tests these changes with some users while it tweaks the design. Google is now experimenting with a new way of displaying related searches in Image Search. Now, a list of queries that may be related to your search is displayed above the reg... |
7 February 2012
04:54 GMT |
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The Super Bowl is over, it's time for the roundups. Google has taken a look at its searches over the weekend and has revealed some of the more interesting stats. Unsurprisingly, the attention was more on the stuff going on around the Super Bowl, than on the actual game. One interesting trend that Google noticed... |
6 February 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Late last week Google provided a big list of updates, changes and new features in Search implemented in January. Among them is an interesting tweak to Instant Search, which has been around for more than a year now. The feature works by loading search results as soon as users start typing, to cut down on response tim... |
6 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Google made a quite a lot of fuss about the new unified header that would adorn all Google properties. It's been moving towards this for several months now. Late last year, the black navigation bar, introduced along with the grand redesign of last summer, was removed, replaced by a header that integrated both th... |
6 February 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Google has provided its now usual list of major search algorithm and feature updates for January. Several of the changes address spelling suggests and corrections, but there are also improvements to image search and so on.
One thing that Google is boasting about is fresher results. This is an update to the new fresh... |
4 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Google is celebrating the adoption of Unicode on the web and is also announcing that it's already switching to the very latest version available, Unicode 6.1 which was released on January 31st. "We’ve long used Unicode as the internal format for all the text Google searches and process: any other encoding... |
4 February 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Google has finally commented on the Search Plus Your World debate. A couple of weeks ago, Google debuted a significantly changed version of its search engine which included Google+, meaning identity, content from users and their friends, brand pages and so on, into search.
Most people have been highly critical of th... |
30 January 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Google has made a change to the way Webmaster Tools reports search engine rankings. Specifically, Google will now take into account the highest ranking link to your site rather than the average position of all your links.
What this means is that, for any given query, only the top result will be taken into account wh... |
26 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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The "Don't be evil" bookmarklet, created by Facebook and other social networks to 'fix' Google search results, greatly demonstrates that Google is not telling the whole story when arguing that it can't include social data other than from Google+ in its enhanced Google Search Plus Your World. The ... |
24 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Google is coming under continuing fire for the Search Plus Your World set of features that integrate Google+ into Google search, while leaving out other social networks. Google has been rightfully criticized about its move, though it has had some counter points. But its arguments didn't hold water, as perfectly... |
24 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Google has made a small but notable change, it is now showing results for punctuation mark searches. So far, punctuation marks have been ignored, just like several common words such as "of," "the" and so on. But just like those common words are now used in the search results in some cases, punctuation marks are recog... |
23 January 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Unfazed by all the Search Plus backlash, Google continues to weave Google+ into search. The latest feature, which some users are reportedly seeing for all searches, adds a "Ask on Google+" link at the bottom of the search results page.
Regardless of the query, Google ads a link to Google+ encouraging people to try t... |
23 January 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Google has updated its Hotel Finder tool which, well, helps you find hotels. It's a search tool that integrates Google Maps to offer you a simple way of discovering hotels that you may like in the area that you want.Now, Google is making it even easier to do that by adding an option to search for hotels within w... |
21 January 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Google has announced a ranking algorithm change that's going to trouble a few webmasters but for which regular users should be very thankful, it will start penalizing websites that shove a great deal of ads in front of the user, on top of the page, and push the content all the way down.It's not hard to run ... |
20 January 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Several weeks ago, Google introduced the unified header and got rid of the top navbar that had been adorning Google sites for years. It was a step forward it said, the latest move in a recent drive to update the look and feel of all Google products.But it seems the move was short-lived, Google is making a tactical re... |
12 January 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Google's 'Search Plus' accomplished at least one thing, people can't shut up about it. The debate has been going strong for two days now. Most comments are negative and most people think that Google is overstepping its boundaries, but things may not be as bad as they look now.
The big complaint a... |
12 January 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Android users who enjoy spending their time searching for information and content on Google will certainly rejoice learning that enhancements are now available for them. Following the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Google has updated Google Search for devices that are based on the previous flavors of A... |
12 January 2012
04:22 GMT |
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It didn't take long for the critics to aim their weapons at the new Google+ integration in Google Search. There's plenty to criticize to be sure, but the most interesting reply came from Twitter which argued that it was concerned for the health of the web, given that Google chose to integrate Google+ and no... |
11 January 2012
05:36 GMT |
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Google has unveiled several new features that amount to the biggest update to its search engine to date. It is now making the social web an integral part of search. Regardless of the privacy implications, or lack thereof, it should change search irreversibly and it should make it better, in all cases. Well, it woul... |
10 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Google has just revealed one of the biggest changes to its search engine since launch. It may not feel like it at first, but adding your personal stuff, that is on the web but is not public, and mixing it with regular search results, is a major change.
And it's one that a lot of people are going to resist. Howe... |
10 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Google has announced that Google Search is going social in a big way. Already, search results include a lot of personalized information and even content relevant only to you, stuff from your friends.
But Google is now rolling out a new version of Google Search that takes it to a whole new level. Among results from t... |
10 January 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Google is being accused with interfering with an investigation by South Korean authorities over anti-competitive issues regarding Google Search in Android phones. The authorities were investigating whether Google makes it unnecessarily hard for users to switch to other search providers in the country.In an interview ... |
9 January 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Google has cleared up the whole Google Chrome paid links situation in the only way it could and still save face, it demoted the Google Chrome page and also lowered its PageRank.
The penalty will last for at least 60 days after which those responsible for the Google Chrome page can submit a request for reconsideratio... |
4 January 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Google Correlate, a very useful tool which can be used to find, well, correlations between web searches and other data, is now available in 45 countries, Google announced.The tool was introduced earlier this year, at the time as part of Google Labs. Since Labs has been dismantled, it has now become a part of the Goog... |
3 January 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Google is big and it's getting bigger. It has its hands in everything online and it's looking to spread itself even more. It shouldn't be particularly surprising then that its interests sometimes conflict and that different parts of Google find themselves at odds.
This seems to be happening with a mar... |
3 January 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Google is always experimenting with new features and testing out changes and it's no different for its advertising business. It's always trying to find ad units that work better or new type of ads that fit better in certain contexts.Considering that the vast majority of its significant revenue comes from ad... |
30 December 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Google is getting into trouble again in France and it's over the same issues, people don't like things they find in the search results. This time, it's a variation on the theme, someone didn't like the Google suggestions.A French insurance company, Lyonnaise de Garantie, didn't especially app... |
30 December 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Apparently, Internet Explorer on my work computer does not like Google and will not have it as the default search provider. Of course, that happens only in certain conditions, and only when it comes to taking advantage of localized features in Internet Explorer, but can still be seen as an inconvenience, one must ag... |
28 December 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Considering that it's only a few days till Christmas, it's surprising that anyone is doing anything that is not holiday themed. It seems that Google, along with all of the usual stuff it's doing for this time of the year, has thought about something different and is holding a comic caption challenge.
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22 December 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Google is running a doodle celebrating the 125 birthday of Mexican painter Diego Rivera. He is best known for his murals most of which are in Mexico and the US.
His works focus on social and political themes, class inequality and capitalism, but also on the struggles of the indigenous peoples of Mexico.
He was a de... |
8 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Google Goggles has always been one of Google's coolest technology, even if it still isn't ready for much real world use and probably won't be for some years. But the simple fact that you can point your phone at something and find out what it is is something out of Sci Fi movies.The latest version of Go... |
7 December 2011
19:51 GMT |
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Google is now testing a new Image Search interface for tablets. Its main search page also comes with a customized look on tablets, so the extension makes sense.
Google is taking an interesting approach, displaying the images in the results in a slideshow, enabling users to both see the larger version but also look a... |
7 December 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Google search has just unveiled a rather interesting new feature, a graphing calculator. For single variable trigonometric, exponential or logarithmic functions, you get a nice SVG graph to help with your math homework. But you can have a bit of fun with it as well, as some functions will generate very interesting g... |
6 December 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Google is introducing a very cool new feature for math geeks and students alike, a graphical calculator built into the search engine. The calculator is able to plot several mathematical functions, even at the same time. The graph is displayed as an SVG and you can zoom in and out to see more details or get a perspec... |
6 December 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals probably made a lot of people happy, be them shoppers or retailers. What started out as a way of getting rid of unwanted inventory in the US has become an international phenomenon.
It's no surprise then that more and more people are aware of the deals they can get on those da... |
5 December 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Google is making it a regular feature, it is now showcasing the biggest search algorithm changes it makes in a round up. In the past two weeks, Google has made several improvements and changes that should improve the quality of results.For example, it can now label sites as "parked domains" for the ones it determines... |
2 December 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Google is finally making good use of its lengthy and controversial acquisition of flight data provider ITA Software, by adding more flight search options. Google made the first step a few months ago, but it is now debuting a much more useful integration, albeit for only a few places.
The current flight data integrat... |
2 December 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Google has just unveiled a brand new look for the navigational bar which actually gets rid of it altogether. Its features are now integrated in the search/header section that used to be below it. Google has been working towards unifying the looks and functionality of its sites, the new navbar is just an extension of... |
1 December 2011
05:22 GMT |
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Most people feel that Google has been around forever. For many, it has been around forever, either they are too young to remember the days before it or they didn't even go online until after Google was big.But even if you've been using Google for years, you probably don't realize just how much it has c... |
28 November 2011
13:51 GMT |
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In yet another misguided attempt at 'removing' things from the internet, Max Mosley, the former F1 boss, is now suing Google in France and in Germany for not doing enough to remove from its search results websites which featured an alleged compromising video of the man.The issue stems from a scandal involvi... |
25 November 2011
11:10 GMT |
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Earlier this year the people of Queensland, Australia, were hit hard by Cyclone Yasi and the subsequent floods. Tens of towns and thousands of people were affected.
But it's during times like this that heroes are made, like a helicopter rescue team that ended up saving 43 people stranded during the floods.
The... |
24 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Google has debuted a new Advanced Search page. The changes are mostly visual, the site definitely looks better, but it suffers from some usability regressions.
The Advanced Search page offers options to narrow and target a search necessary if the regular search page, even with the filters, doesn't help you find... |
24 November 2011
10:40 GMT |
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Earlier this year, in an effort to appease copyright holders, mostly the music industry, Google started to apply some self-censorship to its searches. It started removing suggestions and auto-complete for things like "bittorrent," "torrent," "rapidshare" and so on.
The ham-fisted approach didn't really do much ... |
24 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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The holiday season is coming and everyone is scrambling to make the most of it. Google is now boasting about the new and improved Product Search.
Product Search is designed to surface the best offers and the best products depending on what you're looking for and relies on data from a large number of online stor... |
24 November 2011
05:16 GMT |
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Google has been rather pushy when it comes to encrypted connections. It was the first major site to use HTTPS by default, for Gmail, and has recently made HTTPS connections default for Google Search in some cases.The company is now announcing that it's deploying a new encryption technology and a new method for e... |
23 November 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Google has added yet another dedicated search engine to its main search page. You can now restrict results to just mobile applications. If you're looking for a particular game or productivity app, you'll be able to find the places that host them via the new "Applications" filter in the left sidebar.Google h... |
23 November 2011
06:10 GMT |
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