China to work on cleaning up porn on their Chinese web search services
US based search engine industry giant Google has announced that they are going to work extra hard on cleaning up porn from their search services in China.
This comes after reports that China has again blocked certain Google services due to easy access [...]
Microsoft Bing is now online!
Microsoft has finally launched Bing for public use.
Bing is the latest branded search engine from Microsoft. It replaces MSN Search and Live Search.
The company had earlier planned to make it available from June 3. But they decided to launch it much earlier.
You can now go to Bing.com to check [...]
Microsoft Bing confirmed at last
Microsoft has finally confirmed Bing.
Bing is the next generation search engine technology from the software giant which continues to work hard on taking on Google.
Bing.com is online though the search engine is not yet launched.
The site points to another website by Microsoft named Decision Engine which showcases some videos related [...]
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: [...]
Yahoo India working on technology to improve search result details
Yahoo has said that their Indian development center is working on technologies that would improve the details provided with links on search result pages.
The technology would help the user as they would get better summaries of the search result pages.
Rajeev Rastogi, vice president of [...]
Google launches SearchWiki for customized search results for users
Google has now added a new experimental feature for their users.
This new feature is named SearchWiki.
SearchWiki has already been available to selected users but now it is available to all Google Account holders.
This feature enables the user to change the ranking of search results offered to them.
They [...]
Let me Google that for you!
This got to be one of the funniest web service we have seen in sometime.
This is designed for situations when someone ask you a question online which can be answered through a simple Google search.
The service enables you to generate a link which shows the process of searching [...]
Microsoft is indeed acquiring Powerset!
Software giant Microsoft has now confirmed that they are acquiring the search engine technology company Powerset.
We already have heard the rumors about such a deal and it is now confirmed.
Microsoft said in a blog post: “We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search [...]
Google Custom Search Business Edition is now Google Site Search
Search engine giant Google has announced that they are now rebranding Custom Search Business Edition as Google Site Search.
They have also added a bunch of new features to make it more attractive to the potential customers.
The company said that the new edition comes loaded with these [...]
