Google search results now feature clusters
Google has a new feature on their search engine result pages.
The search pages now show clusters for some queries.
Most of these work with discussion forums like Yahoo Answers and Google Groups.
The aim is to get more links on a single search result page.
Google incidentally uses [...]
Google Flipper: Visually go through news sites!
Google has a new service under development named Google Flipper.
It is currently hosted on Google Labs but is not yet available for public usage.
If you try to login with your Google credentials, you land on a dead-end page.
Flipper service seems to be designed as a new way [...]
Google to Newspaper companies: We are friends
Newspaper companies are struggling to survive in these tough times due to lack of advertising revenues.
A couple of news media giants have claimed that web services like Google makes money from their content which is simply not acceptable.
Google has now responded by saying that they are friends of [...]
Google now has ads in Google News search results
Google has announced that they are now testing placing ads in the searches conducted on their Google News service.
This is currently being done on the US edition of Google News.
The company said in a blog post:
What this means is that when you enter a query [...]
Microsoft Live Search News Alerts launched
Microsoft has launched a news alerts service for their Live Search News service.
This is similar to how Google News Alerts work.
Users would require to have a Live ID to get access to these news alerts.
They can subscribe to news alerts from any page on the Live Search [...]
Google Image Search can now hunt for clip art and line drawings
Google has improved their Image Search engine with two new options: clip art and line drawings.
This is a cool new feature for users who use the Google search engine for such kind of images.
Google said in a blog post about this feature addition: [...]
Google News 2.0 coming up?
Google has posted on the Google News blog that they are now testing some new features and enhancements on their News service.
These new features would be visible to only few randomly selected users of the service.
There is no direct way to see these features so it would take some time before [...]
Microsoft Live News Search gets RSS Functionality
The developers at Microsoft have now added RSS functionality to their MSN Live Search News service.
They have now added RSS feeds into the browse and search result sections.
It’s pretty surprising that they did not add this vital functionality to the service from the very start.
The service still lacks an [...]
Google News now on Facebook
Search engine giant Google has made available a new application for the users of Facebook social networking service.
This application is in experimental stage and would enable the members to select topics of their choice and share news reports related to them.
With this Google News has now gone Social and we just [...]
