Entries tagged with: search engines
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Google Web Elements Make Popular Google Apps Available by Copy and Paste
Google has just released Google Web Elements, a collection of popular Google Apps including Maps, Conversation, Custom Search, Calendar and YouTube News, among others....
Yahoo Promises to Revolutionize Search
Modern search has evolved greatly since those early days with long lists of links offering little to go on to determine quality or popularity. As search users have -- by and large -- become more sophisticated, we're seeing more sophisticated...
Search space heats up; Wolfram Alpha & Twitter Search (Video)
In this video, ZDNet's search engine guru Sam Diaz discusses growth in the search space; specifically the development of Wolfram Alpha and Twitter Search....
Google's Error Classifies Entire Web as Malware
For approximately 40 minutes Saturday morning, all Google search results bore the now-familiar warning "This site may harm your computer" an indication the site may contain harmful malware....
GMail Says Hello with Voice & Video Chat
Google has now added video chat to its GMail product, inching ever closer to a more enterprise-like platform. The initial response from the blogosphere has been largely positive and most reviewers indicate it is a nice addition to the popular...
Top 20 Percent Projects at Google
eWeek profiles "20%" projects -- a reference to the one day each week that Google developers can spend creating the next big thing. Obviously, not all make the cut but a few famous examples (think GMail) and a few not-so...
Yahoo Gallery Highlights Applications Using Yahoo API
Thanks to Yahoo and a developer named dataffect, I can now track USGS earthquake data and map it on the good ole US of A. Or I can find Long Beach hotels close to the airport, courtesy of 'cityres'....
Google Gears Will Power MySpace E-Mail (VIDEO)
According to an announcement made at Google Developers Conference in San Francisco, MySpace e-mail is getting a shot in the arm from Google Gears. Read our piece on Google Gears: Google Gears: The future of application development?...
Doodle 4 Google: Vote for your favorite doodle
Google solicited thousands of entries from K-12 students around the country and selected the top forty (ten doodles for each of the four grade groups). Winners of the contest will be featured on Google's homepage....
Importance of Metadata Reconsidered (ClickZ)
A recent article from online marketing e-zine ClickZ argues that we all need to get on better terms with our metadata....
Google Experimental Search: Testers Wanted
Google Labs recently launched Experimental Search, which allows you the searcher to evaluate new ways to view and interact with Google's search data....
Mahalo Pushes Human Powered Search Results
Taking cues from Wikipedia's distributed model of 'folks-editing' but attempting to mitigate some of its inherent unpredictability with a staff of editors, Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc fame has recently beta-launched Mahalo -- which we presume is Polynesian for "we...
Yahoo! Gets Geeky with Open Source Project Hadoop
Tapping into its inner geek, Yahoo! has been working on an open-source grid project with Doug Cutting of Nutch and Lucene (Java-based search library and applications, etc.) fame. Distributed computing projects are all the rage these days and Yahoo! how...
Three Keys to Wikipedia Monitoring
Increasingly, a user looking for your organization's name on a search engine like Google or Yahoo! is going to see a listing in Wikipedia near the top of the search. Wikipedia is a user-generated, user-governed online resource which like a...
Google Launches Custom Site Search Service
Expanding search services to the small-to-medium size enterprise beyond their appliance offerings, Google rolls out their Custom Search Business Edition....
WebDriven's Buzz Box on Search Trends : Harry Potter and NBA Refs
Buzz Box #1: Harry Potter, Earthquakes & NBA Refs A snapshot of search trends (Yahoo vs. Google) as we head into the weekend....
Ask.com Debuts New Features in its Battle with Google
With a sleek, new interface and features launched last week, search provider Ask.com is trying to close the distance against rival and industry leader Google....
