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Google Your Home with Roomba Bot

Taranfx — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:35:40 +0000

Google does pretty good job at crawling the web, fast enough to accommodate Billions of webpages, everyday. For the offline PC searches, Google Desktop finds every needle in the haystack. But what about your Home? Ever wished that you could index your home and find stuff you misplaced within seconds? The unofficial project called “Google Bot” or “Gåågle Bot“ to the rescue. The Swedish author claims that Read further »

Google to get Real-Time Search Index

Taranfx — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:08:07 +0000

Google crawl’s billions of webpages everyday which includes re-crawling existing pages for changes, and New pages as they appear on the web. For Popular sites, it takes couples of seconds to minutes to get indexed and listed. For most thing, even new posts on Taranfx get indexed in under 5 minutes. But sometimes it’s tough for Google to index and reach-out relatively new sites and pages. To start with, Google started indexing and displaying realtime content from Networks like Twitter, Read further »

Google Goggles Visual Search

Taranfx — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:09:37 +0000

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 RealTime Search LIVE!

Taranfx — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:15:28 +0000

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 »

Try New Google Search [Caffeine]

Taranfx — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:21:26 +0000

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 to Pay for De-Indexing from Google

Taranfx — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:59:56 +0000

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 newspapers. Read further »

Google`s New Design with Caffeine

Taranfx — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:30:30 +0000

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 »

Google to Rank Faster Webpages Higher

Taranfx — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:04:13 +0000

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 on Read further »

New Google Search: Caffeine

Taranfx — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:15:06 +0000

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 text of Read further »

Bing, Google Search go RealTime with Twitter

Taranfx — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:41:32 +0000

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, Google Read further »

Vista, Bing, IE Lose Market Share; Windows 7, Google Makes Gains

Taranfx — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:14:19 +0000

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 »

Google kicks Bing, Recovers search Share: 80 percent

Taranfx — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:44:11 +0000

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 »

Google Search Replaces Bing on Yahoo UK

Taranfx — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:24:22 +0000

This could be one of those things that Microsoft least expected, and Google waited for weeks. When Microsoft made its deal last month with Yahoo to provide the search infrastructure for its home page, using technology from Bing, it left open and non-exclusive the fate of several deals the one-time #2 search provider had already made, especially with carriers. Specifically, does Bing become the default search provider for services that had previously made a deal with Yahoo? The answer appeared to be Read further »

Microsoft Holds “Screw Google” Meetings, Screwing Themselves

Taranfx — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:44:32 +0000

How far can one company go just to beat it’s (stronger) competitor? Hold Weekly meetings? It turns out Microsoft has been holding weekly “Screw Google” meetings, trying to figure out how to throw roadblocks in front of Google as they continue to dominate the search arena. It’s easy for me to say, but doesn’t it anymake a lot more sense to spend millions of dollars making something that’s actually better than Google rather than simply trying to make them look bad? Why? The Fact – Read further »

Yahoo! says it will Continue to Innovate Search

Taranfx — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:41:00 +0000

In a conference yesterday, representatives from Yahoo gave a live demonstration to reporters and analysts of new features of their principal Web applications that they believe will attract new users. Included on their list were ways that Yahoo plans to improve search. We were surprised when Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO said “We Have Never Been a Search Company”. But ray of hope of Innovation at Yahoo! looks to be alive. After Yahoo signed away Read further »

Google Tops Search Customer Satisfaction, AOL improves

Taranfx — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:53:14 +0000

Microsoft and Yahoo sure are in BINGing tunes, they ain’t considered in these satisfaction levels. A new report on consumer satisfaction with search engines and Internet portals says we like them more they now than this time last year. Of the major engines, only last-place AOL improved its score. The big winner? “All others.” The American Consumer Satisfaction Index compares customer satisfaction among and across a number of companies and e-business and other sectors. It was released yesterday. In the quarterly rankings, Read further »

What’s New in Google Caffeine Search

Taranfx — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:01:29 +0000

No matter what Bing may come and ago, we still love google for it’s higher relevance and accuracy rather than fancy stuff Microsoft is putting into their pathetic-decision engine. Yesterday, without explaining what’s new, Google opened the floodgates on what it’s describing as the next generation of its search engine, most likely to test its efficiency and performance using real-world traffic. Testers have been invited to sample the new engine that Google calls “Caffeine,”. We believe Google intentionally isn’t yet explaining just what Read further »

Yahoo! CEO Bartz “We Have Never Been a Search Company”. Wrong!

Taranfx — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:24:51 +0000

The Microhoo deal is finally out of the news and Yahoo has finally happily settled in the grave built by Microsoft. In an interview with Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO, and she uttered a quote that lead to industry-wide disagreement. When we think about Yahoo, Google, what do we think first? Ms. Bartz places Yahoo’s position in a rather different light. “We have never been a search company,” she said. “It is, ‘I am on Yahoo. I am going to do a search.’” What? Am I wrong or …? Yahoo, according to Ms. Bartz, simply feeds search results for people who have grown curious while reading one of its news Read further »

Official – Microsoft and Yahoo Search and Advertising Deal Insights

Taranfx — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:18:19 +0000

The rumors had been living for Microsoft-Yahoo deal since a year now. Last year, Microsoft failed to impress the shareholders, and could not settle with a deal to buy Yahoo. Since then, we have seen a bunch of news about Micro-hoo! deals. With no final news coming out, it was getting fishy. But today, the deal was finally announced: Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally Married under a Deal - strictly limited to internet search and advertising. This move, as per the companies, is supposed to help both in their competition with Google. The deal covers a whole chunk of things, but the most important one is that Read further »

Google Sells Stake in AOL. Loss less than Expected – $400Million

Taranfx — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:28:12 +0000

About Four years back, in 2005, Google made an interesting investment: $1 billion dollars for 5% stake in AOL. The purpose – AOL provided Google with a ton of new advertising, search, and revenue opportunities via a strong partnership. Google, in return, got a 5-year deal to be AOL’s default search engine. Ain’t that kool? But the value of that deal has only dropped like a rock in a lake since then. AOL has shown a downward trend. Condition has continued to deteriorate, despite highlights like the acquisitions of Bebo and Socialthing. Thus, Google’s decided to minimize its’ losses and has sold back its AOL stake for $283 million. According to Read further »

Microsoft Secretly Fears Google even after Bing

Taranfx — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:35:06 +0000

Microsoft had high hopes on Bing and they have should good numbers, recently. As per the latest reports from ComScore, Bing is not catching up as well as Microsoft quoted it was. As per Betanews post: Today, the first broader-based data analysis from ratings service comScore closely confirms what the early samples were saying: During the month of June, Microsoft-hosted searches including Bing for US customers numbered just 30 million more than for Microsoft-hosted searches including Windows Live the month before. This is during a month when just over 14 billion Read further »

Bing ditches Google, now Ready for RealTime Twitter Search.

Taranfx — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:43:55 +0000

Microsoft adds real-time search capabilities to its Bing search engine as it seeks to knock Google from its search perch. Now users can use Bing to find the latest Twitter tweets. The Intial move comes as startups CrowdEye, Collecta and others are propagating the Web with real-time search. In a surprise move. Microsoft July st1 added the ability for users to search Twitter tweets with its Bing search engine, the company’s latest attack on Google’s search stronghold. Bing has has started integrating real time Twitter search results into its results. This is Read further »

Google is too Slow! And Alternative is NOT Bing!

Taranfx — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:42:20 +0000

Google caches the web information slowly. With the speed of the information coming into the web every millisecond, Google doesn’t do a good job in giving LIVE results. With News, Blogs and micro blogging like Twitter having thousands of new peices of information every second, google can’t really speed up to this rate. We need an alternative that can satisfy our LIVE news requirement. Google will still be our primary search engine but for live events we need something better. Were you thinking about Bing at this time? Don’t even dare to! Bing has no base, past or future, I’m talking about a 6month testing mature Realtime search engine “Collecta” Read further »

You hate Bing? Microsoft might be Watching you

Taranfx — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:47:48 +0000

Microsoft is insanely serious on getting into search game. This is quiet justified due to phenomenal reasons. Being a search giant you get the royalty for everthing on the web. Take google for instance, they are the GOD of the Web. And, they sell the ads the way no one else can. Previously, when I made post on “Why Bing sucks“, I was hit with large amount of traffic, which made me conclude that I wasn’t alone. I did some analytics to study the behavior of visitors that were keen in such blogs. They were somehow related with “Microsoft Hatred”. From there, I found something really interesting which made me blog this. I observed a reckless pattern of visitors. Some Read further »

Reports of Bing eating Yahoo share Appear to be Mistaken

Taranfx — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:59:27 +0000

News of Bing eating Google and Yahoo search share rules out to be a miss-calculation. Three out of four major market research firms say that Yahoo still leads significantly in traffic. (Source: DailyTech) Microsoft’s new product seized the number two search spot says one research report, others disagree The Yahoo Microsoft saga is an irresistible one for the tech news community, both for journalists and readers alike. After Yahoo disregarded Microsoft’s 2008 purchase offer, Microsoft decided to go its own way, cooking up Kudo. So Read further »

Why Bing Sucks. Top 5 Reasons.

Taranfx — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:55:11 +0000

For the past several days I’ve been using Microsoft’s new Bing search engine in tandem with Google to compare the results without sacrificing my previous experience. The main reason why I did this was because I’d like to see viable competition to Google in the search engine space — plus I just like to try new things. After using Bing for several days, I think I’ll probably be going back to Google. I’m still going to give Bing a couple more days but so far the Cons of using Bing outweigh the Pros. As I see it, following are the positives and negatives of Bing. UPDATE: Some basic searches on BING just don’t work “Was Einstein married?” “What did Benjamin Franklin Read further »

Bing Search: What it could do to Google!

Taranfx — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:08:45 +0000

What is Bing all about: To assert its presence in the internet search space, Microsoft has come up with ‘Bing’- a new search service that promises to help customers make better decisions. The software giant’s latest foray into internet search arena comes after many attempts to challenge the dominance of Google. Bing would go live on June 3, Microsoft said in a statement. Terming it as a ‘Decision Engine‘, the firm noted the new search service would help customers to make better decisions. Bing would initially focus on four key areas: “making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business”. The software major is yet to make a Read further »

Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer?

Taranfx — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:17:30 +0000

Despite being a devotee of all things Google, I’ve been incredibly excited about Wolfram Alpha. I’ve been using it quite a bit and have its quirks and limitations pretty much down. Those limitations mean that it won’t be a Google killer, but it will be especially useful to students and teachers. Given that, I was more excited about Microsoft’s “decision engine,” Bing, than I have been about a Microsoft product in a while. Could it combine the focused precision of Alpha with the richness of Google? During a break tonight between working on scheduling and making some website updates (and trying to block out the tweeting of our baby chicks (a story unto itself; I’ll stick with Bing for now), I pulled up bing.com. Although it isn’t live yet, the site Read further »