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Search Multiple Gmail accounts, as you Type

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:51:18 +0000

Since the time Google migrated to the new Rocket fast Search codenamed caffeine, it has way more potential left untamed. And that’s why Google is now various ways of utilizing this horsepower — The latest being “search” as you type.

The feature, which Google confirmed it is testing on a select number of users, goes one big step beyond Google Suggest and provides streaming search results as-you-type.

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Google gets Visual Image Search [Like.com]

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:12:12 +0000

How many times have you liked a shirt and wanted to have it in a different color? If you are in a store, or online, options are really limited.

What if you can search the same product across 1000s of stores for different colors & specifics in split second? Its possible with Like.com Visual search.

You might be familiar with Google Goggles Visual Search for android, now Google takes a step further by acquiring this company to bring on innovation to its image search.

What exactly is Like.com Visual search?

Like.com has been running as a visual search engine for long and later they went on to launch a number of smaller sites devotes to fashion and e-commerce. The company launched shopping personalization engine .. Read Further »

Google launches New Look UI [How to Get it]

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:05:06 +0000

After long testing the new Interface, Google is now Live with the new 3 column interface.

Google has added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. This new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query. The new design refreshes and streamlines the look, feel and functionality of Google, making it easier to pinpoint what you’re looking for. It’s simple yet elegant.

Google Claims:

Universal Search helps you find the most relevant types of results for your search. The top section of the new left-hand panel builds on Universal Search by suggesting the most relevant genres of results for your query and letting you seamlessly switch to these different types of results. The “Everything” option remains our essential .. Read Further »
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Google Makes Every Tweet Searchable with Twitter Timeline

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:04:27 +0000

After fetching Real-Time Tweets into Google search results, Google is all set to make every tweet in history searchable.

So, if you wanted to see the CES (Consumer Electronics show) Tweets in context of the timeline, you will be able to see them on Google. (At present the service has archived tweets back to February and is working on the rest.)

How to Try it: You can try it now by selecting ‘options’ on the search page and selecting ‘updates’, You should then see the timeline updates for your chosen topic.
In this example below Google shows us how it will look like when you search for your chosen topic. You can test drive the new function on this special link.

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How Google Search, Apps, Ads Work : Google Explains

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:32 +0000

Google is all about Openness, that’s why they love to share the information with their users. In their continued efforts, they have unveiled few Videos that walk you through almost everything (as a beginner) you need to know how their Core business Products Work.

First off, Matt Cutts walks us through How Google Crawls, Indexes and Ranks web Pages on the web. And further, they talk about some basics of their proprietary algorithm- PageRank:

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Google Your Home with Roomba Bot

admin — 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 it is a “home crawler” which is nothing but a vacuum roomba hacked to have on-board tiny webserver and a camera. Vauum Roomba crawls around doing .. Read Further »

Google to get Real-Time Search Index

admin — 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, Facebook but that doesn’t help much. Google Still doesn’t index the realtime content. Google News quickly learns popular stories among top sites and displays them in 2-3 hours. But the indexing and ranking them in Search is no where near.

Google seems to be .. Read Further »

Google Goggles Visual Search

admin — 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.

What’s more is the Google is able pinpoint the location of the phone user through the GPS software and digital compass built in to many of the phones that run Google’s Android operating system. The .. Read Further »

Google RealTime Search LIVE!

admin — 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 iPhone) too.
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Try New Google Search [Caffeine]

admin — 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 field:

javascript:void(document.cookie="PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=
4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53Zu
eXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com");

Note: Remove everything else, just this Javascript code should stay.

3. Hit enter or Go.
4. Reload or open a new Google.com (/ncr if you .. Read Further »

Microsoft to Pay for De-Indexing from Google

admin — 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.

Microsoft took utmost advantage of the opportunity, and added the fuel to the fire. Even though it was News Corp. that first approached Microsoft about the plan, The FT got to know that Microsoft has approached other news content providers to extend the deal by .. Read Further »

Google`s New Design with Caffeine

admin — 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 Caffeine will be rolled out slowly and effectively. As a result, a small number of Google users should already see the new Google main page with a new look to the Search Options. This will be released to everyone some time after the New Year.

This is how the new .. Read Further »

Google to Rank Faster Webpages Higher

admin — 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 Google’s web spam team.

Cutts elaborated that the directive to speed up searching comes right from the top, Google’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. He said they want searching to be .. Read Further »

New Google Search: Caffeine

admin — 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 Google’s “error” page for Caffeine, as of this morning:

Based on the success we’ve seen, we believe Caffeine .. Read Further »
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Bing, Google Search go RealTime with Twitter

admin — 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 too announced plans for live Twitter updates integration in its search engine.

Microsoft mentioned about its public access to public Twitter feed and also got Bing Twitter search beta; only for U.S. residents as of now. .. Read Further »

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

admin — 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 inevitable: Death of Vista.

Thanks to great Windows 7 Reviews, it .. Read Further »

Google kicks Bing, Recovers search Share: 80 percent

admin — 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. A sampling of five billion or more US page views from Web sites accessed by StatCounter in September reveals that, of the world’s top three search services, Google’s usage share has climbed back just above 80%, and is flirting with last November’s peak of 81.14% — meaning Google is back to serving four out of .. Read Further »

Google Search Replaces Bing on Yahoo UK

admin — 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 no.

Today, that suspicion was roundly confirmed, as one of the world’s largest cooperative portals with Yahoo — one which still bears the Yahoo brand.

In a move first discovered by the UK-based blog .. Read Further »

Microsoft Holds “Screw Google” Meetings, Screwing Themselves

admin — 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 – Microsoft Secretly Fears Google even after Bing

I wonder how long it will take before the “Screw Microsoft” meetings commence? Probably Never. It probably won’t happen because Microsoft is doing a good enough job themselves, and I like to think Google is smart enough to know money is much better spent .. Read Further »

Yahoo! says it will Continue to Innovate Search

admin — 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 its Search infrastructure to Microsoft in an historic deal late last month, which many perceive as Yahoo opening its floodgates to Bing. Yahoo share had dropped over this, but Microsoft is very +ve over the deal. In an effort to minimize the appearance of the deal .. Read Further »

Google Tops Search Customer Satisfaction, AOL improves

admin — 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, conducted since 2000, all the major search engines/portals have improved their scores over time, with only Ask.com and AOL now below their highest historic rankings.

Overall, Google leads the pack, with an 86 percent satisfaction rating, the same as last year. Ranked number 2 is “all others” with 78 percent, up .. Read Further »

What’s New in Google Caffeine Search

admin — 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 the differences are.

But in order to findout the mystery, We did alot of intial testing, surprisingly, observed non-fancy differences comparing Caffeine to Google’s current Production release.

Here is what we noticed -

1. For most simple search query we tried, the top three non-paid search results were .. Read Further »

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

admin — 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 stories or watching a video. It doesn’t generally pop into peoples’ minds as the first place to go look for answers during the course of their day-to-day activities.

As such, Ms. Bartz said she could continue to live with the 20 percent or so share of the search market Yahoo has today. “I am a very .. Read Further »

Official – Microsoft and Yahoo Search and Advertising Deal Insights

admin — 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 Bing will become the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo! web sites. OMG!

In addition, Yahoo! will .. Read Further »

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

admin — 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 Business Insider, Time Warner (AOL’s parent company) has made a regulatory filing with the SEC to confirm the transaction. On top of the sale, it was also revealed this .. Read Further »

Microsoft Secretly Fears Google even after Bing

admin — 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 general searches were processed by the nation’s top five providers.

The news looks a little better for Microsoft when you consider that June was a slow month for searches overall — down by 2%. So while Google’s general search traffic declined by 2% in keeping with the general trend, its US usage share .. Read Further »
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Bing ditches Google, now Ready for RealTime Twitter Search.

admin — 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 definitely a first by any major search engine out there and will obviously be a feather in the cap for Microsoft.

Bing will only Index a certain subset of Twitter users as of now based on their follower count and tweet frequencies clarified a blog post on the official Bing Blog. Also, it is interesting to note is that instead of .. Read Further »

Google is too Slow! And Alternative is NOT Bing!

admin — 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” launched for public yesterday June 18th.

Collecta brings us the speed of the internet. Your search result include even the results of events which happened seconds back. With Twitter as reservoir, and Collecta as the interface to us, possibilities start here.

So its already 6 months for testing, you must be wandering why .. Read Further »

You hate Bing? Microsoft might be Watching you

admin — 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 were one timers, few were half readers, most were multiple , and a chain of those who were visiting blog almost everyday to check back the updates. Such cases would go for someone who “cares” about a particular topic. Who can it be, who would observe it so closely? Take the example of Real life, who is the person most .. Read Further »

Reports of Bing eating Yahoo share Appear to be Mistaken

admin — 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)