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It has been revealed that Apple is using yet another one of its marketing tricks to undermine the Windows 7 hype. Apple has turned to Google advertising, according to observers who claim that entering terms such as “download windows 7” into a Google web search may direct users to Apple's Get a Mac (a... |
3 November 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Parting with a loved one can be a heartbreaking experience that few would ever want to revisit. However, in recent months, the number of those searching online for their former flames has increased so much it has given birth to what they call the “Ex Files,” the Daily Mail says. Most of them, though, just... |
22 September 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Google Books has made the headlines mostly with the controversy surrounding the project rather than with the product itself. But this hasn't stopped the search giant from improving it and it has just announced a major update adding some very useful features. “Today I'm excited to announce that we�... |
19 June 2009
08:05 GMT |
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An application that provides iPhone users with an intuitive interface and search results optimized for viewing on the iPhone has been released in the App Store. Downloadable free of charge, Taptu also offers the ability to share results with others. “Performing a search on an iPhone can be a frustrating task, a... |
16 June 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently released into the wild a new service for its users, one that is called Bing and which replaces the company's search engine, reshaping the idea of the service and pushing it to a new level by naming it a “decision engine.” According to the company, Bing can offer a leveraged exp... |
2 June 2009
10:22 GMT |
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Bing is Microsoft's answer to all competitive search engines. And at the same time, the Redmond company's service to beat search engines, is not a “search engine.” Bing is a “decision engine,” the software giant claims, aiming to catalyze a change in user perception and make the evol... |
29 May 2009
02:51 GMT |
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Google has conducted a survey aiming to find new mobile search patterns with Apple's iPhone and other smartphones, like those running Android. The study has proven to be a success, a report over at MediaPost News' Online Media Daily says, showing searchers on high-end devices like the iPhone are becoming mo... |
12 May 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Microsoft Recite, described as a “search technology for your voice,” is available as a free download as of the start of this week. Offered as a Technology Preview build, Recite is of course not yet finalized, and at this point in time it is designed only to offer an early look at the solution. Tailored to... |
16 February 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Google has posted an update on the Mac development team's blog, notifying Mac users that a developer preview of the Google Quick Search Box is available for immediate download. The free tool aims to take Google's powerful web searching features out of the web browser and put them on your Mac desktops. Googl... |
14 January 2009
10:29 GMT |
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Intrigued by the enormous number of people who access the Google search engine everyday, and also by the fact that the name of the American company has become synonymous with searches on the web, Alex Wissner-Gross, a US physicist decided to investigate the effect that googling has on the environment, and found out t... |
12 January 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Tech-driven mouths on the web are pointing out to the possibility of Apple developing its own search engine. Clearly, Apple would be pleased with having more control, rather than having its users rely on Google, but the proof that the company is acting in this direction isn't very solid. In fact, there is no pr... |
14 November 2008
05:05 GMT |
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In our daily work, there must be countless situations when we need to open a specific file that doesn’t have a desktop shortcut, launch a favorite website, search the web for a selected text string, or just shutdown the computer, and it all has to be done within a few mouse clicks. However, in many cases, using... |
11 October 2008
12:21 GMT |
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Using kannuu technology, Crimson Research has developed Thumbtacts, an application that allows contacts to be searched based on first name, last name or company at the same time while only using their thumb. Thumbtacts topped 10,000 downloads in under a week from launch and is currently listed among the top 10 Busine... |
10 October 2008
14:01 GMT |
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The adCenter Learning Center is the latest evolution of the Microsoft Advertising website launched as a proof of concept by the Redmond company back in March 2008. Designed to permit advertisers to track down their ads among Live Search results, advertising.microsoft.com now features an area dedicated entirely to ide... |
25 September 2008
09:34 GMT |
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As part of their second annual report, security company McAfee compiled a list of the most dangerous celebrity names to search for. Brad Pitt tops this list and searching for his name is supposed to correspond with a 1 in 5 chance of ending up on a malicious website. Paul Ducklin, head of technology for security firm... |
17 September 2008
08:10 GMT |
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With Internet Explorer 7 made available for Windows XP at the end of 2006 and with Windows Vista at the start of 2007, Microsoft introduced the Search Box in the top right hand side corner. With the delivery of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the search capabilities of the browser were cranked up a notch. In this context... |
16 September 2008
09:19 GMT |
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AT&T, North America's largest mobile carrier, has teamed up with Yahoo, the Internet giant company based in Sunnyvale, in order to enhance the Internet searching capabilities of its MEdia Net-enabled phones. In consequence, AT&T's subscribers who use the MEdia Net portal will notice, as of today, that the W... |
8 September 2008
04:41 GMT |
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The latest comScore report that shows what the search preferences of Americans were in July indicates a rather stagnant situation at the top of the chart. Google sites are still on the first place, with 61.9% of the total market, which represents a 0.4% growth in comparison with the previous month. Yahoo! and Microso... |
22 August 2008
10:26 GMT |
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The search advertising market has become more and more competitive, and none of the leading companies wants to fall behind. Today, Yahoo! introduced a new type of API that allows the advertisers to blend in their "special sauce," which is how the representatives of the company refer to the possibility of intervening ... |
10 July 2008
03:46 GMT |
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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 ... |
30 June 2008
02:59 GMT |
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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 ... |
8 June 2008
07:41 GMT |
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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 searc... |
29 May 2008
03:08 GMT |
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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 engi... |
21 May 2008
16:31 GMT |
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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&... |
19 May 2008
07:02 GMT |
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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 tot... |
14 May 2008
10:17 GMT |
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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 be... |
12 May 2008
16:31 GMT |
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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... |
12 May 2008
03:10 GMT |
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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 leagu... |
6 May 2008
04:06 GMT |
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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... |
6 May 2008
02:11 GMT |
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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... |
5 May 2008
14:58 GMT |
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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 t... |
25 April 2008
02:49 GMT |
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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 se... |
21 April 2008
02:46 GMT |
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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 co... |
10 April 2008
03:52 GMT |
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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 t... |
4 April 2008
03:29 GMT |
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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... |
1 April 2008
03:07 GMT |
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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... |
28 March 2008
04:54 GMT |
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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 modificatio... |
25 March 2008
11:58 GMT |
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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 bo... |
25 March 2008
04:53 GMT |
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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 ... |
20 March 2008
11:51 GMT |
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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 chargin... |
20 March 2008
08:00 GMT |
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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 keyword... |
10 March 2008
04:04 GMT |
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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 appro... |
5 March 2008
03:08 GMT |
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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 sea... |
3 March 2008
13:51 GMT |
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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.A... |
3 March 2008
05:08 GMT |
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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 popula... |
27 February 2008
04:35 GMT |
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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 t... |
26 February 2008
14:41 GMT |
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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... |
19 February 2008
14:16 GMT |
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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,... |
19 February 2008
03:40 GMT |
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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 sea... |
15 February 2008
03:16 GMT |
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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 pr... |
11 February 2008
04:33 GMT |
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