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Google Chrome OS may be getting all of the attention today, but such a huge company doesn't revolve around just one product. And it's still very much a search company so it can't afford to get too distracted from its main bread winner. In fact it's anything but, Google will be launching a rather ... |
20 November 2009
10:23 GMT |
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The general layout of a search results page seems to have stayed pretty much the same since Google cracked it about a decade ago. At the time, everyone realized that Google had the right idea and most search engines today have a very similar way of showing the results. But, despite looking very similar, the design h... |
18 November 2009
04:46 GMT |
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Google is always introducing new features and products, but it plays it safe and the most experimental ones usually end up in Google Labs, Gmail Labs, and the likes. Even so, things usually work out all right and, apart from the usual bugs and hiccups, there isn't too much drama. It now looks like Google has fi... |
16 November 2009
11:30 GMT |
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Google's ranking system is a closely guarded secret. Sure, the company lays out general guidelines and reveals the factors that go into determining a site's relevance, but knowing the exact algorithm would be worth a lot of money to a lot of people. That's not going to happen anytime soon, but somethin... |
14 November 2009
04:52 GMT |
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Google is introducing a new tool for concerned parents or teachers, which allows them to lock the SafeSearch setting in the search engine. The feature which removes results of a more adult nature from the search engine has been around for years, but now Google is making it so that you can't change it unless you... |
12 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Google is finally getting ready to take the big step and introduce the new Caffeine search back end to a wider audience with the goal of completely replacing the current architecture it uses. Revealed back in August, the project has been in testing in a dedicated sandbox since then, but the page is now replaced with ... |
10 November 2009
04:03 GMT |
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One of the most useful tools to be introduced for Google Search has been Search Options. It allows users to customize the search to include only a certain type of results or only entries made during a specific timeline. Now, Google has introduced several new options that could prove useful enough in many cases. Users... |
3 November 2009
06:00 GMT |
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Anyone is eyeing the mobile web space these days and Google is no exception. In fact, the search giant is pushing hard on all fronts, from its dedicated search services for mobile to creating its own mobile OS, Android. After making a big splash last week with a dedicated turn-by-turn GPS app for Android, it's n... |
2 November 2009
12:13 GMT |
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The search landscape is getting a lot more complicated lately and all the major players are moving beyond just the traditional search, adding new elements like real time and social search. Google and Microsoft both announced a deal with Twitter to integrate content from the microblogging service into their search res... |
27 October 2009
04:16 GMT |
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The real-time web just got a lot more competitive with two of the largest search engines in the market announcing deals with Twitter. Both Google and Bing will now show tweets from the microblogging platform in their results pages. Both deals have been speculated for a while and now they've been made official. G... |
22 October 2009
02:59 GMT |
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Google's AdWords advertising platform has been the cornerstone of its business and to this day 97 percent of Google's revenue comes from advertising. The company pretty much turned search advertising into a legitimate business model and now dominates the market. Even so, as Google's CEO Eric Schmidt re... |
9 October 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Google understandably wants users to have a streamlined experience when using its search engine. While users spending more time on the site means potentially more money from the ads it serves, providing a seamless search experience will make them return a second time proving to be more financially wise in the long ru... |
8 October 2009
08:38 GMT |
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With a massive number of engineers, a huge user base and enough money to buy Facebook and a couple of Twitters, Google can afford to experiment. And it does; every new feature, every new product is tested with a small subset of its users before it is even announced. Of course, many of these experimental features may ... |
6 October 2009
08:12 GMT |
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Google has just extended the functionality of the Search Options panel it introduced earlier this year with several new filters and options. There are nine new tools available ranging from fewer shopping sites to real-time search, which make Google a much better tool for certain specific searches while at the same ti... |
2 October 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Google is launching several new features for the mobile version of its website geared towards requiring users to input less typing, cutting down on the time needed to do a search on mobile phones and making the site easier to use. One feature that the search engine just introduced is a sync option that synchronizes t... |
1 October 2009
11:51 GMT |
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Though the world has moved to blogs, social networks, questions and answers sites and all manner of other sources, forums can still be a great place for information especially for certain queries. The problem is that actually getting to the information you want in a forum can be a daunting task with multiple threads ... |
1 October 2009
05:17 GMT |
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The real-time web is the latest trend and whether it's actually a legitimate phenomenon or just some catchy new buzz words it doesn't seem to bother anyone. Everyone is suffering from Twitter-envy and everyone wants in, including Google. No surprise then that the search engine has decided to include the Goo... |
29 September 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Google recently launched Place Pages, a new feature for Maps that aggregates a variety of information from several sources for all kinds of 'places'. While the feature has a lot of potential and could proven very useful there are some that are worried that Google may use its position to favor it over simila... |
28 September 2009
08:52 GMT |
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Google got a little outflanked when the whole “real time” thing started becoming big. It's the theme of the year in tech terms. But Twitter is stealing all the limelight, real time is all about the microblogging platform. Google even admitted to this several months back. But don't mistake this f... |
14 September 2009
03:33 GMT |
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The entertainment business has so far stayed away from search advertising, preferring to display ads that are better suited for the type of content it typically markets. Text ads, which have become synonymous with search advertising, don't make much of a medium for promoting a movie but Google is trying out a ne... |
1 September 2009
07:08 GMT |
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For Google every millisecond counts. This is true for all its products but it's especially important for its search engine. While some would argue that today's search engines are already too fast for any improvement to be noticeable, it hasn't stopped any of them from constantly making speed-related ch... |
31 August 2009
06:34 GMT |
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A new piece of malware called Downloader.Sninfs, which uses Twitter and various pastebin services to issue updates to its botnet, has been recently discovered. Security experts now warn that Google's search engine could be abused in a similar manner to make a botnet more resilient to takedown efforts.Botnets pla... |
24 August 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Google is announcing some new features for Google Insights for Search, the company's search data analysis tool, that will allow users to see the future of a search trend to supplement the past data it currently shows. The feature isn't enabled for all search terms but there are some that follow a similar tr... |
18 August 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Google's AdSense program has evolved over the years but the ads on the Google search page, arguably the company's hottest real-estate, haven't moved beyond simple text ads. Now, some reports, citing an email sent to certain advertisers, are claiming Google will introduce a new form of ads that it calls... |
20 June 2009
10:37 GMT |
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Google is disputing claims of a high search carbon footprint following a report authored by US physicist Alex Wissner-Gross. The Mountain View-search giant indicated that a single Google Search produced nowhere near the 7 grams of CO2, as Wissner-Gross had pointed out. In this regard, the company made its own calcula... |
12 January 2009
07:17 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA just announced the national availability of the highly anticipated T-Mobile G1 with Google, the first Android-powered mobile phone. The T-Mobile G1 combines full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with a rich mobile Web experience, dozens of Android Market applications, and popular Google p... |
22 October 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Google has announced that it will provide users with the possibility of customizing their search results depending on three key factors: location, recent searches and web history. The three were also taken into account every time Google returned results to a query but, from now on, people will be given a greater oppo... |
31 July 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Google's principle of sharing its developments with the users in a non-technical, easy to understand language, is displayed once again. The Google team decided to reveal the philosophies that stand behind their search ranking system, that probably are what singles them out from amongst the competition. For start... |
10 July 2008
08:50 GMT |
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Google has recently made available a new search application for Nokia S60 handsets. This little app (that looks like a widget but it's not) is supposed to provide the quickest way of searching the Web from a S60 phone. It can do that by placing, on the phone's Idle screen, a shortcut to a Google search box... |
22 February 2008
14:10 GMT |
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