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Bing’s Social Search to Evolve Soon, Microsoft Says

Google is pushing its Google Plus social networking site hard. In fact, it is pushing it so hard that users will have it linked to all of their search results. Just head over to google.com and perform a search. This has been around for some time now, and those who have a Google+ account and use the search engine ev...

6 February 2012
11:21 GMT

Blekko No Better than Competition at Stopping Spam

A security researcher says that Blekko is no better than its competition at filtering spam in search results, despite using such claims to promote itself.Blekko launched on November 1, 2010, with the stated goal of providing a better search experience than Google. It's first page claims the engine slashes out sp...

3 August 2011
04:00 GMT

Google Delivers New Search Experience for Honeycomb Tablets

Owners of tablet PCs running under Google's Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system have now the possibility to enjoy a new experience when accessing Google Search on their devices. The Mountain View-based Internet giant notes that this change is part of its effort to enhance the experience it offers to all ...

30 July 2011
04:25 GMT

Bing Mixes Sponsored with Organic Search Results in New Test

Microsoft is testing sponsored search results mixed together with organic ones in Bing, a practice that raises ethical concerns and won't probably be very well received by users.Sponsored links normally appear at the top of search results or on the side and are clearly marked as ads. So when analysts from Rimm-K...

25 July 2011
08:45 GMT

Searching for Google Chrome on Bing Leads to Malware

Malware distributors have managed to poison the search results for Google Chome on Microsoft's Bing search engine by buying sponsored links.One of the monetizing methods used by search companies are so-called sponsored links. These are paid-for results which are displayed at the top of search result pages for ce...

8 July 2011
05:13 GMT

New Browser Plug-In Provides Real-Time URL Scanning in Search Results

A new Firefox and Internet Explorer plug-in called M86 SecureBrowsing offers real-time malware scanning for URLs displayed in search results and on social media websites.The plug-in was developed by M86 Security, a provider of gateway Web and messaging security solutions, and is free to use.Once installed, M86 Secure...

8 March 2011
12:49 GMT

Avast Readies Web Reputation Service

AVAST Software announces the upcoming version of its security products will have a Web reputation feature that allows users to rate websites based on trustworthiness.Dubbed WebRep, the feature will be installed as a browser plug-in by the new avast! 6.0 products which have already entered a public beta testing phase....

8 February 2011
02:55 GMT

Halloween-Related Web Searches Can Lead to Malware

Security researchers from Panda Security warn that malware pushers have poisoned the search results for numerous Halloween-related keywords with malicious links.Halloween is only a few days away and, as we estimated a week ago, the attacks targeting this holiday are intensifying.Some of the most popular Halloween sea...

27 October 2010
13:49 GMT

Google Instant to Hit Mobile Phones This Fall

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google announced not too long ago the introduction of a new feature to its search engine, namely Google Instant, which offers a faster way to access search results. Currently available only on desktop computers, the solution should become available for mobile phones too before the ...

16 October 2010
04:24 GMT

Google Gives Mobile Search a Facelift

Today, Mountain View-based Internet giant Google announced a series of new changes to its mobile search service. According to the company, these changes affect the look of Google Search results for mobile and were meant to provide users with a consistent overall experience. Moreover, it seems that the Google search ...

6 May 2010
02:48 GMT

Google Maps for Android Updated to 4.1

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just updated one of the solutions it offers to the users of Android-based mobile phones, namely the Google Maps. Now available in version 4.1, the Google Maps come with a series of features that are meant to offer users a fast and appealing experience when it comes to sor...

18 March 2010
03:36 GMT

Google's Mobile App Comes to Orange's Customers

Wireless carrier Orange announced on Wednesday that it signed a multi-year strategic agreement with Google, through which it becomes the first operator to deliver the Google Mobile App to its users. According to the two companies, the partnership is aimed at offering easy access to mobile search and geo-location serv...

29 October 2009
09:18 GMT

Google Docs Goes Public, Will Appear in Search Results

A post on the Google Docs help forum by Google employee Marie F. has announced that Google will begin to crawl and index all public Google Docs that are externally linked to. At the same time an email has been sent to all Google Apps users that have used Google Docs with specific instructions on how to configure thei...

19 September 2009
06:19 GMT

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....

27 May 2008
04:02 GMT

Google Adds New Video Ads

Google is starting to come around to its old self after the emotional week following the Microsoft bid to take over Yahoo! It stirred some waves when it offered to lend a helping hand and then it sat back and watched how things unraveled. Back to the drawing board of moneymaking schemes now, and a New York Times bit ...

15 February 2008
14:41 GMT

Search Results through Free SMS

In the recent period, Yahoo Search received several updates meant to enhance the results returned by the search technology. Last week, Yahoo made an announcement to inform users about an update process, sustaining the improvements might affect the websites' rank and their position on the SERP. Although there wer...

10 April 2007
09:02 GMT


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