What happens when a company accidentally ends up breaking its own ethics rules? Google is having to deal with that embarrassing situation right now, with the revelation that promotion for its Chrome web browser may have strayed …
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Google Explores Utilizing +1s as Search Rank Factor
Google’s almighty search algorithm is one of our generation’s most heavily guarded secrets. Like the recipe for Coke before it, it’s been instrumental to the company’s ongoing success, even in the wake of a growing number of competitors like Bing or a favorite around here, Duck Duck Go.
That’s not to say that the algorithm’s perfect. …
Coming Soon: A Search Engine Just for .XXX Domains
Latest news from the scantily-clad world of adult entertainment: websites under the new .xxx top-level domain will get a search engine all their own, at the disappointingly ordinary address of http://www.search.xxx.
They could have gone with something more suggestive, like desperatefor.xxx. Or helpmegetmy.xxx. Or even xxx.xxx. But no, …
Google Realtime Search Goes Offline, Might Get Google+
Happy Fourth of July! Google pulled the plug on its realtime search while you were barbecuing some ribs and slamming a few beers out on the patio. Now welcome back to the real world.
So while most of America was wrapped up in its three-day weekend, Google disabled its Realtime Search feature. Coincidentally (or not so coincidentally), …
Google Quietly Launches ‘What Do You Love?’ Site
Google wants to know what you love.
That’s according to a new site it launched earlier this morning. Sneaking one past us, What do you love? (http://www.wdyl.com) seems to be an amalgamation of search results throughout Google’s products and services all rolled into one.
Bing Adds Facebook Social Features
Microsoft’s search site Bing just got a whole lot more social with the addition of a bunch of new Facebooky features so you can “bring the Friend Effect to search” (Bing’s phrase, not mine).
What’s the Friend Effect? According to Bing, it’s the way that “90 per cent of people seek advice from family and friends as part of the decision
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CNN Strikes a Chord with Google Over Facial Recognition Article
CNN’s Mark Milian published an article yesterday concerning a facial recognition feature that Google’s been working on. You’d be able to use such a feature to take a photo of someone and, if that person allowed it, receive relevant information about him or her. The piece reads very much like an interview with the app’s developer and …
Yahoo Launches Real-Time Search Results
Yahoo is launching “Search Direct,” and if you know what “Google Instant” does, you’ll understand the two concepts instantly. Very similar to the Google service, Yahoo’s Search Direct will return an instant, real-time answer to a search query before you can even hit “Enter.”
Microsoft: Bing ‘Deals’ Scours Groupon, LivingSocial for You
Microsoft isn’t one to be left too far behind, tacking daily deals onto its Bing search product. Bing Deals for the desktop and mobile gives thousands of unique offers spanning 14,000 cities and towns in the U.S.
Being a search engine, the new Deals section aggregates offers from top providers, including Groupon, Living Social and …
Google’s New Search Results to Wither ‘Content Farm’ Crops
Google is tweaking its search results as part of an ongoing effort “to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible,” according to a company blog post.
While the search giant refines its ranking algorithm on a fairly consistent basis, this latest revamp is a big one—”a change that noticeably impacts …
Searching Just Got Delicious with Google Recipe View
Taking a cue from the likes of Bing and the latest foodie startups, Google has jumped on the recipe search bandwagon with its latest feature, Google Recipe View, which debuted yesterday.
Luckily for the less tech-savvy home cooks everywhere, using it is pretty simple–just search for an ingredient or dish as usual, and when you get …
Search Engine Fight: Google’s Sting Against Microsoft’s Bing
Here’s what happened.
Google suspected Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, of copying some Google-ish search technology to display certain results to users.
The long version has been thoroughly covered by search expert Danny Sullivan but the basic story is that last May, some people at Google began to notice that Bing was returning
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