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. [...]
Google celebrates water on the moon with a doodle
Google has been updating their homepage logo to celebrate events. And the latest one highlights one of the most important scientific findings.
NASA has just confirmed that they discovered large amount of water on the moon.
And Google has a new doodle on their homepage celebrating this [...]
Yahoo launches Spanish language Mobile Homepage
Yahoo aims to expand its coverage on Spanish language speaking regions.
The company has just launched their mobile homepage in Spanish language.
Yahoo said: “We’re reaching the highly influential and increasingly mobile Hispanic market with an engaging and customizable mobile Internet experience, regardless of the language users prefer.”
This specially designed [...]
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 [...]
Google SafeSearch now much more powerful
Google has updated their SafeSearch search on their search engine to ensure that it cannot be tempered with.
Google SafeSearch is designed to prevent sexually explicit web sites and images from appearing on search result pages.
Till now, it has been a setting that can be changed by anyone [...]
