All the stories tagged with search

Google Chrome Updated To Include Conversational Search

05/22/2013, Google rolled out an update for its Chrome web browser to include conversational search.

Google’s Conversational Search Blows Apple’s Siri Away

05/15/2013, A large chunk of Google’s Keynote was about search, and Google used this rather provocative title above to get our attention. Google as already said in the past that it will go towards “answers”  and away from “search”, so this [...]

Google Adds Animated Filter In Image Search For GIFs

03/19/2013, GIFs are very popular on the internet. They have been around for over two decades and don’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon. They’re short and often hilarious animations used by an insane amount of people. Many actually [...]

Graphics Processors Push Computer Vision Ahead

03/19/2013, At GTC 2013, NVIDIA has demonstrated their version of Image Search, which was powered by their massively parallel processors. The goal of computer vision is to be able to recognize and understand what things are – not merely “seeing” them. [...]

Google Merges Maps And Search Division

03/14/2013, Google is not a company that is averse to making the tough decisions, and most recently, we were “treated” to news that Google Reader will be persona non grata when July 1st rolls around on your calendar. The thing is, [...]

Facebook Graph Search: A Great Strategic Move

01/15/2013, Earlier today, we laid out the basic functionality of the new Graph Search live from the Facebook HQ in Menlo Park. Beyond the new features, it is interesting to look at how this will help Facebook going forward, including monetization. [...]

Gmail now searches within attachments

10/02/2012, The Gmail inbox for many of us living in the cloud is the equivalent of a disorganized, overstuffed purse: you know what you’re looking for is in there, but sometimes it’s hard to search through all the used kleenex (spam) [...]

Google improves local search experience

03/05/2012, Google is not a company that rests on its laurels, which is why it has decided to improve the local search experience across mobile devices, never mind if you are running on the Android or iOS platform. The next time [...]

Google invents original search gestures

02/24/2012, It looks like Google has plans for changing the way we search using our mobile devices. The search engine giant was recently reported to have invented a new gesture for pulling off searches on future Android devices. Instead of users [...]

Microsoft Bing overtakes Yahoo in search engine wars

01/11/2012, Yahoo seems to be on a downward slide, as Microsoft’s Bing search engine is right now behind Google, overtaking Yahoo in the process. Search is considered by many to be the Internet’s most lucrative market, and Bing managed to garner [...]

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 to roll out SSL search beta in the coming weeks

10/20/2011, Great news for folks who are paranoid about their searches on Google being monitored or intercepted by other people: Google has announced that its SSL search is going to be available for everybody. When it was introduced last month it [...]

Google tests out encrypted search with Chrome beta users

09/08/2011, In the battle for supremacy, search engine companies are constantly introducing new features to make their services more appealing than others. This time instead of introducing something “fun”, Google has decided to improve the security of your search results with [...]

Google shows us how they improve Search

08/25/2011, If you’ve always wondered about the steps that Google goes through to improve its search engine, you’re in luck. The company has just released a blog post detailing the work that it does each time they make a change or [...]
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