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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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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 afici... |
1 February 2008
05:23 GMT |
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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&... |
31 January 2008
09:26 GMT |
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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 ma... |
29 January 2008
09:19 GMT |
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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 automatical... |
28 January 2008
02:47 GMT |
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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 ... |
14 January 2008
06:51 GMT |
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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 p... |
10 January 2008
06:29 GMT |
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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 z... |
7 January 2008
19:51 GMT |
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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 Mobile Video Search (MVS), the first search appli... |
7 January 2008
10:32 GMT |
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No, no horseshoes in the boxing gloves, its 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 theres going to be a fight... |
4 January 2008
18:21 GMT |
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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&#... |
3 January 2008
14:21 GMT |
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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 "ChaCha Search" button. Like any other search... |
3 January 2008
08:37 GMT |
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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 speci... |
28 December 2007
06:56 GMT |
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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 id... |
27 December 2007
10:23 GMT |
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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 hun... |
21 December 2007
06:36 GMT |
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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 Latin America and the Caribbean.America Movil will... |
21 December 2007
03:04 GMT |
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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, ... |
19 December 2007
09:00 GMT |
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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 t... |
19 December 2007
06:23 GMT |
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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 sometim... |
18 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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You'll understand the title in just a moment, when I'll explain the experiment that the Google Custom Search team has conducted, the point they wanted to prove and the means that they chose for the job. First of all, let's get things straight from the beginning: it is about ads, more specifically the a... |
18 December 2007
04:57 GMT |
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The News from Google are quite interesting to follow. Not because of the information provided, which is top notch and I just had to mention it, but because of the constant updates that are being made by the dev team in order to optimize the algorithm, the search modality, the updating of the sources and so on and so... |
18 December 2007
03:31 GMT |
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I'm guessing it's egocentrism we must be talking about, because I sincerely doubt that there's somebody googling himself for the latest news about himself. In my view of the world, there shouldn't be an article on that written beforehand in order for the person in question to find stuff out from i... |
17 December 2007
08:38 GMT |
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It has already been known the fact that most spammers and scammers attempt to get a higher Google PageRank in order to attract more visitors searching for popular keywords and infecting their computers. But, today's report is one of the most dangerous attacks I've ever seen. Let's get straight to the s... |
17 December 2007
06:04 GMT |
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Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers' catchphrase is, I think, the one that best describes where Google is going to. The Mountain View based company is trying to unite its users under one single profile that will link from there to all the services it graces us with. This is coming in, one step at a time, and... |
17 December 2007
05:26 GMT |
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