Yahoo all set to index Twitter to show up to date information
Yahoo has become the latest search engine company to take help from Twitter to stay up to date.
The company has announced that they would start indexing data from Twitter and show it along with search results in the coming days.
Microsoft and [...]
Microsoft Bing market share in USA: 10%
Microsoft has almost gained a 10% market share in the USA with their Bing search engine.
Google had around 65.5% market share while Yahoo had 18% in the month of October as per the reports published by comScore.
Microsoft Bing has done well but it seems to be taking [...]
Google Social Search has disappeared suddenly!
Update: Google has confirmed that the service is down and they are going to bring it back in a day or two. No reasons for the downtime have been given.
If you had joined the Google Social Search experiment you might now see that the option is gone from [...]
Google provides easy access to public data from World Bank
Google has announced that they have now updated their public data search initiative to include information from World Bank.
They have now added data from 17 World Development Indicators in Google Search.
The company said in a blog posting:
With today’s update, you can quickly access [...]
News Corporation plans to sue BBC for copyright infringement?
More information is coming out from the recent statements made by News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch.
Murdoch has already stated that they might block Google from indexing their news sites.
The latest is that the company might even go ahead and sue news channels like BBC [...]
Google Caffeine search engine is ready for prime-time!
Google had launched a sandbox search engine which enabled web users to test out their brand new search engine that was being developed.
It was codenamed Caffeine. Apparently, Google Caffeine edition is ready for prime-time as they have closed down the sandbox.
The Google Caffeine sandbox page [...]
Google Commerce Search announced
Google has announced a new search product for online retailers.
They call it Google Commerce Search.
Online retailers can install it on their website to provide a faster way to go through their items.
It is hosted on the Google servers so it works pretty fast. Store operators retain the ability [...]
Google Search by Voice now works with Mandarin Chinese!
Google has announced that they have updated their Google Voice Search service to work with Mandarin Chinese language.
The company added in a blog post that the service is also now available on Nokia S60 smartphones.
Support for Nokia S60 platform would enable millions of mobile [...]
Google now use RSS/Atom feeds for discovering new sites
Google has some good news for web publishers.
Google Webmaster Central team has revealed that they are now using RSS and Atom feeds to discover new content on the web.
This means that if your brand new site has a RSS feed associated with it, there [...]
Similar Images Search out of Google Labs
Google has taken out their Similar Images feature out of Google Labs.
Google Similar Images enabled a web user to find images similar to an existing image.
This option is now available under search result images on the regular search engine.
A ‘Find similar images’ option is available under [...]
