Yahoo! Search Assist updated with new features
Yahoo might be close to outsourcing their search engine to Microsoft Bing but they continue to enhance it to make it more powerful.
They have now updated their Yahoo! Search Assist service with new features.
The aim is to make it easier for the user to get the [...]
Google has a special message on image search page for Michelle Obama
Google has find itself in a fix related to some search queries on their search engine.
Sometimes a website or an image would rank so high for certain queries that it becomes an embarrassment for them.
One such example currently is the image [...]
Google breaking URL info into category blocks on SERPS!
This is the first time we noticed this new ‘feature’ on the Google search engine result pages.
If a result website has categories, Google sometimes breaks the URL info into category blocks.
Here is an example:
The link is displayed as:
news.zdnet.co.uk › News › Hardware
This is happening with news websites and [...]
Google testing a new updated user interface for search result page!
Source: TechCrunch
TechCrunch has posted this screenshot of a new user interface edition from Google Search.
It features fixed sidebar featuring the search options.
It is also much more colorful compared to current result pages from Google.
It remains to be seen if this is [...]
BBC to optimize headlines for search engine juice
BBC has revealed that they are going to use headlines which are designed to generate more search engine juice.
Instead of shorter headlines they use today, writers would be asked to submit two headlines.
A short one would appear in the stories while the longer one would [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft Bing in UK is out of beta
Microsoft has now taken out their Bing search engine Europe out of beta.
They are now going to highlight localized content on the Bing UK search engine. This includes the imagery shown on the homepage of Bing.
There are some other features that are being introduced:
The daily [...]
Google India Doodle today by Puru Pratap Singh
Puru Pratap Singh is a kid from Gurgaon studying in class fourth.
And he is the kid behind the doodle that is currently on display on Google India homepage.
His entry was selected from the Doodle 4 Google contest which invited kids from India to submit their creations. [...]
