Privacy, Oh Privacy – Google Defends Its Policies Once Again
	Google's pressure point regarding users’ privacy is infamous. Even when it is not collecting data on purpose, something has to come up with and trouble the waters, such as is the case with the trial with Viacom. Regardless of that, the officials stand up to defend their re ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 07:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Value of Duplicate Content
	The content of a website is considered duplicate if parts of an existing published content are repeated on a certain number of pages across many websites and domain names. Even if building a website that has content automatically generated sounds tempting, like in the case of RSS feeds publishing in HTML pages, the consequences of such a thing can often spell exactly what no webmaster would desire. Practically, the multiplication of t ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 11:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Search Results With No Google Video Player
	Most of the Internet users are probably using YouTube for watching videos featured on the Web. But this doesn't stop Google from offering users their own video product, simply dubbed Google Video. The product is actually the Mountain View's free Video sharing website and video search engine, and it has recently received a new update. On 13th of June 2007, Google announced that its Google Video search engine was going ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 06:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Experiments with Showing Additional Information for Forums
	Google plans to improve the quality of its search results and is currently experimenting with showing more information on forum threads. News about the search results feature comes approximately one month after the Mountain View company announced that its search engine would display the publishing date on a Web Page. Users can't really enjoy the new feature just yet, as it is still in its experimental stage. But when the ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Doubly Relevant Search, Courtesy of Microsoft
	When Microsoft took its sight of Yahoo, Chairman Bill Gates explained that the software giant would grow its search engine and online advertising businesses organically, focusing on innovation. The past year, the Redmond company poured in excess of $7 billion into research and development, and a potion of the funds went to improving Live Search. In this context, Roy Levin, Director, Silicon Valley Lab, explained that Query-Dependent Rankin ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 07:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Microsoft Yahoo Marriage Too Little and Too Late to Impact Google
	While a complete takeover of Yahoo is no longer in Microsoft's plans, any sort of pseudo-marriage between the two companies might just prove a case of too little and too late. This because both Microsoft and Yahoo continue to see their shares of the search engine market eroding constantly, in the context in which they have so far failed to form a common front against Google. According to the latest statistics made available ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More User-Generated Content on Google Earth
	Google Earth, Google's mapping solution, is turning into a database of user generated content. At the Where 2.0 conference that took place last week, Google held a tutorial entitled "Searching the Geoweb: Exposing Your Geo Data to Search Engines". The tutorial was presided by Lior Ron, Google Maps Product Manager and Mano Marks, Google Developer Programs Engineer. It appears that Google has been working on comi ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wikipedia Traffic, Mostly from Google
	Wikipedia, most probably your favorite online encyclopedia, receives most of its traffic from Google. While this might not be completely unexpected, it is now a certainty with the recent release of study made by Nielsen Online. The online encyclopedia draws all but 10 percent of its traffic from search engines and other sites, but with the majority coming from Google. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry San ... [read more >>]
	15 May 2008, 06:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! oneSearch on Your Rogers Mobile Phone
	Rogers Wireless users will be happy to find out that their favorite wireless carrier has just signed an agreement with Yahoo, which is meant to enhance the quality of Rogers Wireless' products. The agreement also includes Fido, which, along with Rogers Wireless, is on the most important Canadian mobile carrier. Rogers Communications and Yahoo! Inc. are not at their first partnership, as the two companies have signed, las ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 11:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rumors of Google and News Corp Bid for blinkx
	The self-claimed world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, blinkx, has recorded a serious increase of traffic over the last period. The increasing number of visitors is mainly due to the rumors about a possible Google or News Corp bid for the video search engine website. It appears that the company currently owning the blinkx site has seen its shares up to 36.75 pence, the highest recorded level since September. b ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 05:19GMT | (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 to Change Its Search Engine
	As all of us know, the Google search engine is one of the most used search engines on the web. There are a number of websites that come integrated with the powerful Google search engine. This is just to show how popular Google really is. It seems that none of its competitors can provide users with a real alternative for a search engine. Nevertheless, this might change soon, as Yahoo rolled out, in India, a new search option. I ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Not A Tsar Anymore
	Although we all expect to see Google's search engine on the first place in every country of the world, the Mountain View-based company has encountered tough competition in some regions. It's already known the fact that the Chinese market refused Google's evolution so Baidu is still the local king of search. But what's more interesting is that in Russia, Google's sites are the second most popular because t ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

People Commit Suicide Because of Google
	Nowadays, Google is more than a search engine, it's a source of information because people looking for details on a certain topic do nothing more than entering Google's address and typing a certain keyword. Because of that, even persons who want to commit suicide turn to Google, although it sounds pretty cynical. A study conducted by the Universities of Bristol, Oxford and Manchester revealed that it's pretty easy ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 09:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Ideal Homepage
	By using the browser Favorites menu or a common bookmark manager, the time consumed to navigate to a certain URL could be a lot for a big number of stored links. In order to simplify the Internet navigation process and to gain more time and an increased accessibility to navigate to certain websites, you can use visual solutions. ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 07:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ask.com, the Search Engine for Married Women
	Rumors that IAC will cut down some 100 jobs at Ask.com were not totally false, but completely exaggerated the number. Only 40 people were let go, making up for 8 percent of the search engine’s work force. The shovel in the forehead that nobody saw coming, though, was the announcement that Ask.com will change its strategy and besides from trying to focus on "better answering search queries posed as questions," it will tr ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Mechanisms and Function Principles of Search Engines
	Search engines helps any Internet user to rapidly find relevant information regarding a certain topic. It is demonstrated that the best traffic existing in case of a certain website is generated by search engines. Search engine optimization represent the process containing all actions and strategies necessary to improve the level of website promotion through search engines and, as a consequence, the quality and quantity of w ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Baidu Cornered in New Piracy Suit
	Baidu has been a target ever since it emerged as China’s number one search engine. Crawling roughly everything, it was inevitable to be involved some way or the other in lawsuits caused by users uploading and linking to pirated software and entertainment content. So far, it was not involved this year in any scandal regarding programs and applications, but judging by the wave of lawsuits filed against it for the other type of content, it wo ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 06:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Midomi Brings Any Song You Want on Your S60 Handset
	Melodis Corporation, a company based in Sunnyvale, California, announced the releases of midomi mobile, an innovative music search engine for Symbian S60 mobile phones. The new application allows you to find music by singing, humming or ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Google Search App for Nokia S60 Phones
	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 that allows you to instantly type what you want to search. After you typed and pressed "search", a Web page will a ... [read more >>]
	22 February 2008, 14:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

All Search Engines Must Bow to the Law
	Internet data collection is a delicate issue with the search engines and regulators everywhere, the classical example of one pulling against the other. With the users being left in the middle, it cannot go on any longer, so yesterday, European data privacy regulators ruled that even search engines based outside the Old Continent must comply with the EU rules on how private data and preferences are stored. It’s final for Europe ... [read more >>]
	22 February 2008, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ManagedQ Search Application
	Search engines help us to retrieve information from different Internet resources based on search queries. The searching efficiency depends on query keywords or key phrases and the quality of results is determined by specific search engine mechanisms of selection and sorting. The most of search engines provide search results to a given query as a list containing items in an order based on a predefined ranking algorithm. The c ... [read more >>]
	15 February 2008, 14:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Introduced an Improved Search Engine for Mobiles
	Browsing the Internet via your mobile phone is definitely less effective than browsing from your desktop PC, regardless of your handset's display size. Google knows that (it would be funny not to), and it continuously tries to improve its mobile homepage ... [read more >>]
	29 January 2008, 11:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who’s Second in the Search Market? Google Is!
	No, nothing happened to the Mountain View-based Internet giant, the catch is that the place the survey has been conducted in is China, and Google never owned the majority of the shares there. Baidu has and, by the looks of it, it will still reign supreme for a couple of years. After all, the China-based search engine had more searches run through it than Microsoft on a global level. You gotta respect that! Baidu had a 60.1 percent of th ... [read more >>]
	28 January 2008, 17:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Rules Supreme among Its Peers
	Seemingly endless, the reign of dominance from Google has found yet another pillar of stone to built its temple’s roof on. comScore has released the final numbers for the December 2007 U.S. cores search rankings. Needless to say that the Mountain View based company had more than all the others’ figures put together. It reached a high of 58.4 percent of the total searches, a slight drop from the previous month’s quota, that had ... [read more >>]
	25 January 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Property Search Engine Out
	I was thinking a while back whether a search engine for any kind of product in the world would be something beneficial and I came to the idea that it’s most likely not a good idea, as at some point there would be needed a search engine that would search for the search engine that would help you most, and that’s just a waste of time and resources. The Search Engine launched today for helping house-hunters find their ideal property. Globr ... [read more >>]
	11 January 2008, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Remove Your IP Information with AskEraser
	Users' privacy has always been one of the most discussed matters when it came to search engines, because some of them are able to store information about the past activity, IP and obviously, search queries. Because of that, the giant search engines struggled to improve the privacy using several methods. Google, for example, said it plans to anonymize the users' logs after 18 months, by removing certain strings in the i ... [read more >>]
	11 December 2007, 05:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Management of A Free Custom Search Engine
	Many of you want to have a personal search engine for using only with a certain web site or to gather information about any other existing web site or Internet resource. There are many tutorials that explain the mechanism of basic code construction for a search engine in various programming languages (client side or server side). In the same time, ready made solutions exist, but in this case, the search engines will offer various degree ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 11:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Adding a Search Engine Feature to a Website
	When you have a large website, composed of many pages it is time to include a search option for your visitors inside your web pages. Because a lot of pages are more information to your site visitors, the adding of a search facility will induce an interactive browsing experience and as a consequence, they will be pleased to stay longer on your web space. The main advantage of an internal search engine is that it allows anyone t ... [read more >>]
	07 September 2007, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Interested in Bringing Its Own Phone Too
	The Gphone is so yesterday's news. Yahoo might just take away from Google's glory with their own plans on developing a personal mobile phone. Yahoo is a search engine too, so why shouldn't this work? No logic in that. Yahoo might have felt that its efforts are not appreciated as much as they should and that ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Xerox Launches FactSpotter, a New Search Engine Program
	Scientists from the well know Xerox Company have announced the launch of a brand new software program: FactSpotter. The new searching capabilities make this program very special. FactSpotter excels the keyword search standard by making an analytic interpretation of the content in which the information is stored. "The usual search programs reach only 40% of the documents really relevant for the solicited information and this because of ... [read more >>]
	28 July 2007, 07:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do Not Trust Google's Search Engine
	A recently conducted study concerning the Internet search engines and the consumers who are using them to find content on websites revealed that some of the customers are not trusting search technologies and the information stored by them. The poll included 295 web searchers and was conducted by hakia.com, a beta search engine owned by hakia, Inc. 166 (62 percent) of the users voted no when they were asked if they trust search engines and ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2007, 03:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Prepares Search Engine for Ringtones, Mobile Games
	The Mountain View giant improved its mobile side a lot recently but it seems like it plans to assault the market with one of its top technologies: the search engine. Wall Street Journal reports that sources around Google said the company is interested in building a revolutionary technology that would allow the consumers to find mobile content such as games, ringtones and other files compatible with the handheld devices. The most interestin ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2007, 12:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft vs Google – The Battle for the Internet
	InformationWeek cites the Internet metrics company comStore and publishes the overall number of U.S. search queries, that reached 8 billion last month, up 6% from May and more than 25% from June 2006. After months of complete domination of the search market, Google starts losing market share to Microsoft, but for now it is still too early to determine if Google got as high as it’s ever going to get or if Microsoft is finally gett ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2007, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No More Google Video! Long Live Google Video!
	Google Video, the web-based service that provided almost the same functions as the popular YouTube, is not an online video sharing solution anymore. The parent company Google upgraded the product and made it a search technology that allows users to find clips on the entire Internet. At this time, the official page of the service is exactly the same as before, but the searching abilities are 100 percent changed. For example, if you try sear ... [read more >>]
	15 June 2007, 05:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Threatened Again! Quintura Receives Search Engines Award!
	Quintura is a visual search engine that received the appellative alternative for the simple matter that Google owns the best service on the Internet. However, Quintura comes with an interesting technology: a visual search engine that allows you to search the Internet even without typing a word. Basically, the search query starts with some common words presented by the search engine that allows you to browse into the category and ... [read more >>]
	08 June 2007, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

All Eyes on Google and Yahoo Month of Bugs
	A Ukrainian researcher prepares one of the largest security advisories ever released concerning the Internet search engine. It seems that the researcher aims to present vulnerabilities and security issues discovered in some of the most famous Internet technologies including Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN. According to Computerworld, the research is expected to be released on June 1, revealing cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and search ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2007, 04:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Your Date!
	It seems like the search giant revolutionizes our lives in both online and offline modes as the users are now searching the Internet to find details about their dates. As The Calgary Sun reports, a woman from Houston managed to find a matching date after she searched Google although there were a lot of interesting things regarding the guys. Katie Laird, a 24-year-old woman from Houston, found a guy attracted by vampires as well a ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2007, 11:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Debuts Alpha Beta Search Engine
	Yahoo recently revealed a new search engine, code name Alpha that is currently in beta stages and is based on an innovative technology for searching the Internet. Alpha was especially designed by Yahoo to represent an alternative to the classic search engine by allowing users to find files on the Internet using the concept of Federated Search ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2007, 09:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gates vs. Brin – Search Engine Smackdown
	Have you ever wanted to be one of the Google founders, Larry or Sergey or maybe Bill Gates? If the answer is yes, this interesting game is the perfect solution for your need. Pronet Advertising designed an interesting flash to imagine a search engine smackdown between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. The battle is based on some trivia questions with your own answers that can cause an amazing wrestling hit for the opponent. Just after ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2007, 05:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Will Be the Death of Junk Websites
	Microsoft has pointed a finger at Internet advertisers for fueling and funding junk websites. A group of Microsoft researchers has published a paper entitled “Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers” in which they outline the problem of search engine spam. Junk websites and web pages are an integer part of the much larger spamming environment. But search engine spamming, while still being a limited phenom ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2007, 07:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia