Survey: iPhone Heavily Searched on the Web
	If anyone needed further confirmation that Apple's iPhone is slowly, but surely, winning over the hearts of smartphone fans, comScore carried out this study revealing that, in a single month, "iPhone" was searched on the web almost 7 million times. The Study was conducted in April covering only the US market. As far as keyword ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2008, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Meet the First New Google Favicon in 8.5 Years
	In case you’ve accessed the Google website in the last few days, you have surely noticed that there’s a new favicon displayed in your browser once the website is fully loaded. Moreover, in case you have bookmarked the Google Search page, there’s a new "g" appearing next to the page title. Well, Google rolled out their first new favicon in the last 8.5 years and according to the company’s officials, creating such an icon ... [read more >>]
	08 June 2008, 07:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Online Petrol Prices Searches Explode
	Although it was obvious that everybody is worried because of the continuous growing petrol prices since protests have been held in multiple regions of the world, the concern is also underlined by the recent online searches which clearly show that people are deeply interested in the matter. The percentage of the searches concerning petrol prices has been increased since Christmas and it keeps growing more and more, Hitwise reveale ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 03:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Still the King of Search
	Nobody has ever doubted that Google is the most popular search engine on the Internet and the statistics released every month simply confirm this statement. Nielsen Online released the Top US Search Providers ranking for April 2008 revealing, once again, that Google is the king of the web when it comes to search engines. According to information provided by Nielsen, Google Search recorded more than 5.1 billion searches in April 2 ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Most Visited US Website. Obviously
	Google is once again the most visited US website with no less than 141,000,000 unique visitors, according to a research conducted by comScore. The Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo came the second with approximately 140,610,000 visitors while the Microsoft sites accounted the third position with 121,213,000 visitors. It's interesting to see that other popular services were placed on lower positions and some of them were not even ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 07:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

'Email? What's That?', One in Five Americans Says
	Although for some of you this may sound pretty incredible, one in five US households never sent an email, the National Technology Scan report, compiled by Park Associated, reveals. Moreover, no less than 20 million households don't have an Internet connection, which means that approximately 18 percent of the total number of households can't access the web at home. However, according to data provided by Parks Associat ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 10:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Powerset – The Way You Should Search Wikipedia
	Wikipedia is quite a popular service these days and this has a serious impact over the software market as some software companies developed applications especially to work on the online encyclopedia. Powerset is one of them but it may provide a really interesting alternative to the main Wikipedia search technology because it comes with advanced search features that could help you get exactly the information you want. 'Ho ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Acquires Inquisitor, Spotlight-Like Safari Plug-in
	Yahoo has announced the acquisition of Inquisitor, a Safari browser plug-in that provides useful as-you-type search suggestions to Mac users of the Apple browser. Inquisitor is similar to another technology powered by Yahoo, Search Assist, with a single difference: it is actually a browser plug-in that has to be down ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 03:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

FA Premier League Matches Brought to You by Google
	Google's OneBox has become one of the most useful additions to the best search engine on the web because it provides quite relevant information depending on the keyword the user types. From now on, the OneBox also displays information about the FA Premier League matches, including here results and the next league fixture for the team you enter. Type, for instance, Chelsea and you'll find out that The Blues won the last ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Search Debuts Virus Protection
	The Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo has just rolled out SearchScan, a technology developed with the help of McAfee, that provides protection from viruses, spyware and spam, usually delivered through malicious websites. Since some of these pages may be already indexed by Yahoo Search and returned to the user, SearchScan comes to protect you by displaying a warning every time you find such a risky website. Priyank Garg, Director P ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 02:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Reportedly AFK, Dancing In the Next Room
	What was supposed to represent just another Google dance, a new update in Google’s ranking algorithms, causes serious headaches for lots of users who are still waiting for the Googlebot to come visit their website. The trouble started almost one month or so when webmasters spotted a new Google update and experts predicted a major in Google’s search results. Just like usual, users expected different rankings in the datacenter but ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 14:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Launches Search Suggest
	Since YouTube belongs to Google and this is the best search engine on the web, it's obvious that the video sharing service must have pretty advanced search functions, most of them coming from the parent company. Although no one inside Googleplex announced such an update, blogger Ionut Alex Chitu has discovered< ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's Whois Reloaded
	Whois functions are pretty useful, especially if you're looking to get information about certain domains every once in a while. There are lots of services out there which provide this type of function but most users would prefer to conduct a whois straight from their desktop or using one of their favorite web services. Google has introduced such a feature a long time ago but, due to undisclosed reasons, it removed the functi ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo's Diabolic Move: Ad Deal with Google
	Back on February 1st, Microsoft made a $44.6 billion bid to Yahoo, imposing an April 26 deadline for the Sunnyvale company which is supposed to accept or refuse the offer. Instead of giving an official answer, Yahoo has just made what seems to be an at-least diabolic move: an ad deal with Google, the Mountain View company whose motto is actually "Don't be evil!". Anyway, the agreement means that Yahoo will provide ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2008, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Search Silently Updated
	Google's search engine, probably the best search engine on the web, is once again updated with quite an important feature, having a look at the relevancy of the results it is able to provide. As you already know, searching Google for a certain expression or phrase requires you to put it between quotes in order to search the web for the syntax you entered. In case you forget to enter the quotes, Google will provide websites t ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 03:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Debuts gDay: Search Today the Webpages Published Tomorrow! Exclusive Image by Sergey Brin Inside!
	Google keeps up the good work and today released another revolutionary technology, codenamed gDay, which may bring a different perspective of searching the web. First of all, gDay* is powered by MATE (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation), which is quite an amazing aspect considering the fact that it now works in collaboration with Google's search engine. Since I'm sure that the term MATE doesn't ring any bells ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 03:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Mail Has Search but Lack of POP3 Still Annoying
	In case you’ve read my last articles, you may be tempted to believe that I’m an addicted Yahoo Mail fan that can’t live without POP3. Well, I’m not, but I can’t imagine such a popular webmail service without POP3 support. Maybe I’m not one of those old-fashioned guys who prefer to log in to a website in order to check their email account, but doing such a thing needs time and time is quite important nowadays. So, POP3 in Yahoo Ma ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo No Longer the Ugly Duckling, Gets Facelift
	Every time one of the Internet giants comes with a redesign of their official page, the entire world is talking about it. This is exactly what’s happening right now as the Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo has just rolled out a fresh facelift of its homepage. In fact, the entire redesign is actually a logo modification because the Yahoo folks have finally decided to center the company logo appearing on the official website. And this ... [read more >>]
	25 March 2008, 11:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google: “Size Does Matter!”
	Although it has been seen in the past by some users out there, a new Google feature is now globally available: the search box is automatically adjusted for all longer queries entered by the users. Let’s do a simple test: go over to Google and type Softpedia. Press "Search" and analyze the length of the search box. As you can see, there’s nothing new here. However, if you type a longer query like I did, you can see t ... [read more >>]
	25 March 2008, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Slowing Down
	Google has seen its web search market share fall some nought point three percentage points globally from January to February, according to comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world but, as an all-time crowd favorite would say, it’s all good. The US share rose over the same period. The minuscule drop was however foreseen by the company, as its CEO Eric Schmidt announced somewhere at the beginning of the year that his compa ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 11:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Search Got Sped Up on Mobile Phones
	The new flat-rate data plans from phone carriers is overwhelming, pure and simple, and it is fueling the rate at which the Internet is accessed via mobile handheld devices up to rocket speed. That has not always been the story; there was a time (which I like to refer to as "The Dark Ages") when the per-minute charging made having a phone that could access the web completely useless – nobody really used that function on ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 08:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Trademark Search Ad Keyword Law Reversed
	Allegedly, comparative advertising is good for consumers, competition and free speech, or at least it is according to the Google Public Policy blog. Well, that was all a bunch of hooey for the legislators in Utah, who last year passed a law that prohibited search engines from allowing trademarks to be used as keywords for ads triggering and displaying. All of the other states have nothing like it, so the uniqueness of this poi ... [read more >>]
	10 March 2008, 04:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Introduces Navigational Site Search Boxes
	When Google introduced Sitelinks, it attended to navigational searches. It’s not always when you know the URL you need to type, and by being the biggest search engine in the world, the Mountain View-based company had to address this special category of searches. Sitelinks provide users with a more in-depth approach, providing links to the various pages and tabs found on the main site of the queried item. In other words, the o ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 03:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ask.com Outsourcing to Google?
	The unsettling winds of change are being felt by Ask.com staff, as parent company IAC has announced some serious changes coming up. Among the options talked about in higher circles are completely selling off or abandoning the current search technology and outsourcing it to Google. Were Ask.com a bit bigger in the search market, Microsoft would have been mighty interested in it, but the few percentages it would add by taking i ... [read more >>]
	03 March 2008, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Senior Vice President Quits
	The metaphor of rats leaving a sinking ship does not cover the quality of the people that have put Yahoo! behind, but it is very good for explaining the mass exodus from the Sunnyvale-based company. Joining the long and stunning list is Tim Cadogan, Senior Vice President of Search, Listings and Display Marketplaces. Apparently, he got the boot, as one of Valleywag’s tipsters provided an email that circulated internally: "Tim Cadoga ... [read more >>]
	03 March 2008, 05:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Searching Has Changed
	The search experience has just recorded a big change for the good from Google, that paid heed to those advising it not to neglect the Arabic languages. To the rest of the English-speaking online community, it’s almost inconceivable to adjust to this, but actually a fairly large portion of the world’s population uses right-to left writing and typing. The Mountain View-based company encountered some serious problems while trying ... [read more >>]
	27 February 2008, 04:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Opens Search
	Internet giant Yahoo! has announced that it will open its search to 3rd parties to build and present the next generation of search results. I can’t quite remember who said it first, but I distinctly remember it to be mentioned as one of the few means of keeping up with Google. Out-Googling Google I believe was the syntagm used. The Yahoo! Search Blog hosts a post detailing the Sunnyvale based company’s approach to opening up. Aft ... [read more >>]
	26 February 2008, 14:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Pirate Bay Banned from Yahoo!
	In what is probably going to be one of the biggest faux pas in the history of search engines everywhere, should it be demonstrated that it was not forced upon it, Yahoo! has decided to ban, or, in milder words, filter the site out of its search results. Querying for the popular BitTorrent tracking site will no longer return any links to it, despite the obvious search for its name (on the left, image 1). There’s been some stron ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Glossary Search Engine from Google
	Searching for information online is a common ground for most of the Internauts and Google has become their Mecca. The world’s biggest search engine almost always yields the results expected, but for those looking for specific definitions it’s not always that easy. Usually, the top return leads to wikipedia, should there be an article posted there on the query. The problem with wiki is that it’s not certified and acknowledged a ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google, 5000% More Sought After on iPhone
	The push into the mobile market by Internet giant Google can already be felt. After allocating a good amount of time to the developing of iPhone specific options and tweaks, the team responsible can now sit back and reap what it has sown. The success recorded is stunning: Apple’s smart phone’s users are searching Google 5000 percent more than its nearest competitor. This might be the effect of the niche trend oriented people t ... [read more >>]
	15 February 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Working on Its Search Index
	Going to Google’s advanced options gives you the option to select how far back the search engine will look for returns to your query. Not the most common or the most advertised of options, but it is definitely something worth giving a try because it will on occasion save you a lot of trouble and save you some precious time. The options you’re given are true to the typical search span. Anytime being selected by default, you can ... [read more >>]
	11 February 2008, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Customized Map Search Available
	The Lat Long Blog is the place to go when you want to know whether there’s something new in store related to Google Maps. Yesterday, Lior Ron posted an entry relating to the new options added to search. Much to my surprise, they are actually really useful to the average user and not necessarily to the maps aficionado, like I had expected them to be. I say that because the latest important update was about the editing tools, as ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google’s Synonyms Goofing Up
	Yesterday, Philipp Lenssen drew people’s attention to the Googlebombs still ticking, like the search for "dangerous cult" redirecting to Scientology.org. Today he’s returned with some further insight on the way things work with the algorithm that Google said to have put an end to the linking problem. If you’ve read ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 09:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Search Introduces New View Modes
	Google Experimental has come up with a couple of viewing modes to enhance the search experience for its users. People were getting kind of tired with the old "10 pages per page, white background, blue links" mode and started voicing their desire for something new. After working to improve the algorithm in order to make search more relevant (that will still be going on, it’s still a work in progress), the dev team has decided to a ... [read more >>]
	29 January 2008, 09:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Local OneBox Results Changed for the Better
	When you’re searching for something with Google, web results might not always do the trick for you. Take restaurants, for example. You couldn’t care less about the pizza places in Moscow if you’re from anywhere else in the world. A good reason for Google to feature the OneBox results, which automatically bring the local search results at the top of the page or at some other position. While this was a great idea, many people felt that it ... [read more >>]
	28 January 2008, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Search Downgraded in Google Desktop
	The Google Search option that was included in the Google Desktop for Windows, as its main point, has been downgraded with the latest version of the application released. Except for the fact that it was originally built around it, no longer does it hold the focus point, the other gadgets do. The search feature enabled by default is limited to looking through the filenames, in order to conduct an even deeper inquiry into the fil ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 06:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Search Engine CEO Shuffling
	The reported move of Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Ask.com, out of his office and the entering of Jim Safka in his place may look puzzling to the outside world, but not to the IAC, the parent company of the search engine. Letting go of the person who turned your business around and made your company get noticed, and even polled against the giants of the market, just doesn’t sound like such a good idea to me, but hey, I’m not in a position to jud ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 06:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

…And Came Wikia Search to Let Me Down
	It’s going to be a competitor to Google, they said. It’s going to have human element, they said. It will not be as great when it will be released, but it is open source and it will have enormous possibilities to grow, they said. Well, at least they got part of the last one right. It’s not in the same zip code area with "great" or even "good", to paraphrase a Yahoo! Messenger audible. I’m going to save the worst for l ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 19:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Here Comes the First Video Search Tool for Mobile Phones
	After successfully delivering award-winning mobile marketing solutions to brands such as Conde Nast from AOL to Sony and Gillette, JuiceCaster, a well-known pioneer in mobile social networking, strikes again. This time the company announced the launch of its brand new M ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 10:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Inventor of the First Computer Virus out to Get Google
	No, no horseshoes in the boxing gloves, it’s going to be a fair fight. Unfortunately. I would have liked to see somebody go up against Google and fight dirty, but I guess that there are laws against this, nowadays, they track you anywhere you are and then they do you in. Eh, well, at least there’s going to be a fight after all, although I’m pretty certain that this will be ended in the first round with a KO from Google. Rick Skrenta, th ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 18:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Name's Moon. Blue Moon.
	You know the phrase, it means seldom. Rare. The original meaning of the word was actually "never", but the times change and so do the meanings of words and, in our case, phrases. But the way the astronomical possibility of an event is measured as frequency clearly outdoes my science classes and training. Oh, you don’t know what this is all about, that’s why you’re pulling the long face. Look at the screenshot or sear ... [read more >>]
	03 January 2008, 14:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ChaCha for Mobiles Out Now
	ChaCha - this is not a name that everybody knows. No, not like Google. But like Google or Yahoo!, ChaCha is a search engine. It uses the same working mechanism as the others, meaning the user will enter a search term to find what he / she is looking for and then click the ... [read more >>]
	03 January 2008, 08:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wikia Search Project en Route
	Jimmy Whales, the Wikipedia founder, is shooting for the stars with the latest project that he has announced and he hopes to eventually challenge Google and other established players with the Wikia Search project, an open source search project (but I do believe that the name gave that away and I did not need to specify it). So far, the project has assembled the basic technologies needed for a search engine, which include the s ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

OneBox Results Move to AdWords Section
	First came love… then came marriage, then came Google with a baby carriage. Oh, sorry, that wasn’t the rhyme I was looking for, but it somehow suits the purpose as well. What I was going after was more in the lines of: first came Google and the idea of adding scroll function for its ads, then it came with the idea to open the ads in different windows (just in China, unfortunately) and the story now goes on with moving the OneBox ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“Fuzzy” Email Search Tool Available
	Email searching often proves irrelevant and tiresome, because you can only specify the words or the contacts that you want the search results to show and the list might be long as Santa’s naughty children list. And when you’re on the go, the last thing you want to do is to be sorting through a couple of hundred emails that have the queried words in them. The fuzzy email search engine, according to IBM, uses "advanced algo ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 06:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! and America Movil Team Up
	Yahoo!, the Internet giant company, and one of America's top mobile phone company, America Movil, have shaken hands in order to bring more mobility to the world. The two companies have teamed up in a deal that would provide mobile Web services in 16 countries in ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Inside Info about Google’s Test Results Quality
	The one thing that Google really prides itself with, among all of the accomplishments it has achieved, is the relevance of its search results, the Search team always striving to hone the algorithm to fill the respective niche that might still be unattended on the off occasion. This might sound like an easy job to do, but as a matter of fact it’s a big pain in the behind for the people there, they always need the feedback, or t ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 09:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Natural Language Search Not to Come Any Time Soon, Says Google
	In short, there’s not going to be any natural language search because people are lazy and don’t type in the entire question, but rather a couple of words that they would like to find in the answer. That’s saying it grosso modo, Peter chose the more subtle approach of using carefully worded answers to the eventual questions that might have raised further. I think that this concept of natural language search is basically the sam ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Refusing to Index Your Video? Backdoor Available!
	It’s no secret that Google has been indexing video content from other video hosting sites for quite a while now, rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, with YouTube playing the part of Caesar for this movie. Most movies came from larger video sites, such as Metacafe or Crackle, and were sometimes mixed with Break and AOL Uncut. Nothing, however, from the smaller video hosting services or from the independent video publisher ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia