Today at Google’s Search event, Google has launched a new application for Google Android mobile phones that will allow people to search for more information about a famous landmark or work of art simply by taking a photo of that object. The announcement came along with Google Real Time Live search. Google Goggles can recognise books, tourist attractions, famous paintings and even company logos. Focus your phone’s camera on an object, and Google compares elements of that picture against its database of images and will point you to the relevant results. Read further »

Google had been taking RealTime search seriously, lately. Months back they talked about integration with twitter, and here it comes. BREAKING!!! Google has just launched real-time search, integrated into it’s all search results pages. Google real-time search takes all the latest happenings from Live tweets, Yahoo Answers, News articles and Web pages. Good part: It works on mobiles (including Read further »

As we reported earlier, Google had been working on a new Search (codenamed caffeine) which will bring ground up changes in Google’s searching mechanism, making it faster and efficient without impacting the results. We had discussed the revamped UI  in detail. With a slight hack, you can get to try it before it officially reaches you: 1. Navigate to  Google.com. ( Use http://Google.com/ncr if you are outside U.S.) 2. Copy and paste following javascript into your URL address Read further »

Microsoft had been having a tough time tackling  Google’s leadership in Search. In the past they have given out several offers, UI changes to attract users. Well, the battle just got a whole lot dirtier, as The Financial Times has uncovered news that Microsoft has approached several news content providers, offering them money if they opt to “de-index” their sites from Google. It all started with News content providers having a dispute with Google. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch has threatened with legal action to prevent Google from “stealing” articles published in his Read further »

Google is now eleven and a half years old, but it has never changed it’s look drastically. For Google what matter s the most is simplicity. Keeping the simplicity still simple, google is all set to to revamp it’s search UI. The new look and New underlying Search Read further »

With the speed Google is making other products/technologies obsolete, it’s very fair to quote they are driving the Internet. Speed is something that envy’s Google the most. Last week’s launch of SPDY: Speedy Protocol for Internet, sure came with a message. It has come out that Google is seriously considering using page loading time as a factor when returning search results. This isn’t some unsubstantiated rumor, either; it comes from none other than Matt Cutts, the high-profile Google employee who works Read further »

Google has continued to improve search relevancy by improving quality to it’s users. The endeavour continues with it’s new Search engine “Caffeine”. As one may expect, it brings no UI updates but brings some unique and useful features to improve overall quality of results. Back in August when they previewed the new search on a sandbox, we got handson and detailed out the new features. What’s New in Google Caffeine Search Here’s the Read further »

We had been shouting in the dark that Google and Bing Search are too slow. Seems like Both search leaders have woken-up to it and they are going RealTime with Twitter. Microsoft announced back in June that it will add live updates from micro-blogging service Twitter to its search engine: Bing. However, it is now ready for going live, details described here. Following that, Read further »

Well, September had been a trend-shifter in most of the things in Technology during which most users looked-out of their “traditional approach” to technology, towards the next step in Future. Last week, we reported that Google search re-gained it’s search market share, when it re-gained 80% of the market in U.S, highest since last year. On the Operating system side, Users are running away from Windows Vista to grab Windows 7 copies thereby declaring what was Read further »

The Redmond giant over-hyped search engine, Bing, had a bad adoption during the last month (September), leading to give Google a sky-high search share of 80%, second-highest since last November share of 81.14% For the last two months, as Microsoft conveys, Bing had a  gradual ascend in usage share against Google, was a sign of Bing’s inevitably catching up. Looking at the Spetember’s numbers, shall we do a similar interpretation of September’s numbers  as a sign of Bing’s ultimate demise, taken from live analytics firm StatCounter. Read further »