Yahoo Search Assist, the technology which is supposed to provide alternative searches for the users who want to find information on the Internet, is now available to all UK residents. Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Land wrote that the function was officially rolled out today while the United States received it ear... |
26 October 2007
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Google's 'Did you mean' function became famous due to several weird suggestions which were long commented by the Internet users. Google always defended the feature saying it is only a technology which is based on users' queries so it cannot be blamed for irrelevant suggestions. However, Google has... |
17 October 2007
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Yahoo Search has always been the main rival for Google Search as the Sunnyvale company struggled to make its technology more competitive for the Mountain View giant. Today, Yahoo makes a major step in the battle against Google and releases absolute stunning features for its search engine which are obviously improving... |
2 October 2007
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Google's search suggestions have always been a dispute subject as they provided pretty weird search alternatives for numerous queries entered in the search box. This time, it is about Israel, a country which Google thinks that is 'a terrorist state', evil and even illegal. Have a look at the picture at... |
24 September 2007
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The Google rival Yahoo finally managed to implement one of the most discussed features for a search engine: suggestions. Basically, they were introduced a long time ago in numerous search technologies, even Google tried it sometimes, but it was never included in Yahoo's search engine. However, the Sunnyvale comp... |
12 July 2007
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The recently-released Yahoo's advertising platform SmartAds seems to bother the Mountain View rival because the best search engine on the Internet offers a funny suggestion for a search after the giant portal's product. Try searching for SmartAds on Google and you should be able to see a suggestion that enc... |
4 July 2007
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The Australian part of Google Search Engine is always getting the latest goodies prepared by the Mountain View company even before the rest of the countries receive them. Think about Maps updates, blogs and now suggestions. Yes, you've read it right, the Australian search engine is now offering suggestions for m... |
15 June 2007
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Google decided to release an official response for the recent accusations that sustained the search giant might be a misogynist company. It all started from a simple search suggestion offered by Google that encourages users to search for "he invented" even if the user types "she invented". The Chicago Tribune was inf... |
14 May 2007
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Google's suggestion feature provides some interesting search queries that might change a user's life: find a girlfriend/boyfriend or even how to obtain a flat stomach. I know, I know, it is a little bit funny; but if Google says so, it must be really true. Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped found some ... |
7 May 2007
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Simple test: go to the official page of Google (in English) and search for the "she invented" phrase. Quite uncanny, I know, but go on, try it. Approximately 2.470.000 results returned by Google; but have a look at the "Did you mean" suggestion. The Mountain View-company encourages users to search for "HE invented", ... |
7 May 2007
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Windows Vista, the latest version of the operating system designed by Microsoft, is continuously assaulted by numerous attempts to crack the application. Although most of the malicious attempts were blocked by the software giant Microsoft, it seems like the cracks and other ways to activate the operating system are p... |
5 April 2007
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Let's have a quick test: go to Google and type Marijana in the search box. If you didn't know, Marijana is a common name in numerous Slav dialects. After you press the search button, Google returns you a lot of links but the most obvious is the "Did you mean" function displayed just after the search box. "D... |
13 March 2007
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Recently, the search engine introduced a new feature for the Google Translate service meant to make the product more human related and provide better translations by allowing users and readers to suggest their own translations for certain phrases. Although the company didn't present it, the function was accessib... |
2 March 2007
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