All the stories tagged with: search engine
Appgravity: an alternative way to look for Android apps
01/03/2012, While the Android Market website is a good way to check out apps, its search capabilities are pretty limited (despite being created by Google). It’s quite hard to find what you want unless you know exactly what it is. Well, [...]
Google search offers pinnable tile on Windows Phone devices
12/02/2011, Just because you use Windows Phone 7.5 does not mean that you have to love Microsoft’s Bing as your default browser. Similarly just because you own an Android phone does not mean that your preferred search engine must be Google, [...]
Yahoo! throws in photos to recipe search
11/16/2011, You know what they say – a picture speaks a thousand words, and sometimes, when you are looking for a particular recipe, you might see it in words, but having a photo that shows off what you’re about to eat [...]
Google develops job search engine for the US military
11/07/2011, Our men (and women) in uniform would definitely be proud to know that the military is one of the most advanced in the world – not to mention boasting some of the deadliest weapons in their armory, but in this [...]
StumbleUpon helps man propose to girlfriend
09/07/2011, It’s not very often you see big websites take time out of their day to help one of their users out in such a personal way, but it appears that discovery engine, StumbleUpon, has done that for one of their [...]
Yahoo benefits from Google losses in July US search market share
08/10/2011, Google, currently the 800lbs Internet search gorilla, did not have a good July, having lost part of its market share among other US online searches, whereas rival Yahoo! Inc. made gains – according to researcher ComScore Inc. Fret not if [...]
Bing Deskbar prototype brings more to the search fight
08/01/2011, Ever since Google emerged as the search engine king all those years ago, they never really looked back, growing from strength to strength that at times, seemed unbelievable and phenomenal. Well, Microsoft has certainly not thrown in the towel just [...]
SearchLion makes use of the empty space on the side of your display
06/30/2011, If you’ve got a large monitor and wish you could make use of it more efficiently when you’re browsing search results you now can; thanks to the folks at SearchLion. The company has officially launched SearchLion: a search engine that’s [...]
Google To Discontinue Their “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button?
06/20/2011, When Google first made its appearance on the web, what separated it from the other search engines was their “I’m Feeling Lucky” button which was designed to provide a more efficient way of searching for things by bringing them to [...]
Unofficial Google Multilingual Voice Search launched
05/18/2011, For those of you who wished that the voice input from Google Translate was available in Google’s regular search as well, you’re in luck. Some folks have decided to come up with their own front page for the Google search [...]
Websites that link to pirated music and movies to be blocked
05/13/2011, Bad news for folks who frequent illegal file sharing and torrent sites to for their entertainment purposes. A recently proposed bill named the Protect IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property), the law [...]
When Google’s Panda Rewards Content Theft
04/19/2011, If you’re a webmaster who cares about Search Engines, you have heard about the Google “Panda” Update. Here’s what the update was about, in Google’s own terms: “Google depends on the high-quality content created by wonderful websites around the world, [...]
Microsoft to file antitrust lawsuit against Google
03/31/2011, In a strange turn of events, it looks like Microsoft is now in the driver’s seat for dishing out antitrust lawsuits against its competitors. What seemed to be their specialty many years ago (when they were on the receiving end), [...]
