Caffeine: Google's new search index
Today, Google announced the completion of its new web indexing system title Caffeine. Google boasts that Caffeine, “provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches …
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Google adds encrypted search option with SSL
Yesterday, Google announced a new feature for its world dominating popular search engine, SSL. By simply directing your web browser to https://www.google.com you can take …
Google gets its Bing on with site redesign
If you logged into Google yesterday and thought for a brief moment you had been redirected to Bing, that’s because Google’s brand new search engine …
Google jumps on the online bookstore bandwagon
Following in the footsteps of Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple, Google announced today that the search giant will be launching an online bookstore this …
Google buys U.K. visual search startup Plink
Plink, a U.K. based visual search company, has been acquired — for an undisclosed amount — by international search giant Google. The California based search …
Motorola to ditch Google and use Bing search and maps in China
It’s no secret that Google and China aren’t exactly BFFs at the moment, but now Motorola has thrown its hat into the foray in a …
February search engine market share number are in, more of the same
Today, ComScore released its search engine market share numbers for February 2010, and to be honest, there wasn’t much movement. Google and Bing both gained …
Microsoft and Yahoo search deal approved by the US and the EU
Last July, Microsoft and Yahoo announced a search deal that would bring Bing to Yahoo, Yahoo to Bing, and place Yahoo in charge of the …
Google Goggles searches by image, twists our tongues
We’ve been dreaming about being able to take a picture of a place or thing, send it to Google and have the mother-of-all-search tell us …
Motorola DROID does Times Square on Black Friday
As part of its “DROID Does” advertising campaign, Verizon Wireless is teaming up with Google, Reuters and R/GA to take over Times Square in a …
Google updates movie search for iPhone, WebOS, or Android-powered device
iPhone, WebOS or Android owners have yet another alternative to find the hottest movies at local theaters while out and about. Point your web browser …
Bing U.S. market share approches 10%
We have some news coming out of the world of those new-fangled “search engines” that are so popular with the kids; it looks like Microsoft’s …
Google Search by voice now available for Nokia S60 handsets
It doesn’t get any better than being able to do stuff with your phone just by talking into it, and now Google is bringing that …
TweetGenius v1.1 launches!
That’s right, y’all! We’re back. Sorry to keep you waiting but we wanted to make sure this was rock solid, and we really wanted to …
Microsoft and Yahoo ink search deal
Microsoft and Yahoo fiiiiiiiiiiinally announced a search partnership this morning, bringing to an end months of endless rumors and speculation. The deal will provide Microsoft …
Microsoft's Bing mobile site now live
We’re not sure if Microsoft plans to get as deep into the mobile website business as Google but as of yesterday, the company’s new Bing …
Microsoft Bing search engine goes live
Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is now live for users to test drive. Though labeled a “preview”, the search site is fully functional and all …
Microsoft Bing gets previewed on video
Now, we’ll preface this by saying that it is absolutely, positively, 100% impossible to draw any real conclusions about a product like a search engine …
Microsoft to debut Bing search engine alongside $80 million ad campaign
It’s been a while since rumblings of Kumo, Microsoft’s codename for its new searching engine offering, made the rounds. From the looks of things, that’s …
Yahoo US search share sputters, Google rebounds
Following a six-month upward trend for Yahoo’s US search market share, Bartz’s baby hit a brick wall in February according to comScore, sliding slightly from …
Yahoo’s share of US search market continues to climb while Google actually slides
Wait, what? Is that headline right? Indeed it is folks – if comScore’s January numbers are to be believed at least. The authority on web-watching …
Yahoo lowers the bar, in a good way this time
Yahoo might not have named its new CEO yet but that hasn’t stopped higher-ups from announcing a huge executive decision today that will hopefully help …
Revived Yahoo search deal for Microsoft is “total fiction” for the time being
As much sense as it would make for Microsoft and Yahoo to come back to the table now that Jerry Yang is out of the …
Apple possibly working on a search engine?
File this one under kinda, maybe, probably not – but the rumor du jour on this fine Thursday morning is that Apple may well be …
Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile may be planning Nuance Open Voice Search enabled handsets
Nuance, the company behind Dragon Naturally Speaking, is developing a new mobile product called Open Voice Search. Similar to Vlingo and Microsoft’s TellMe, Open Voice …
Google Suggest: Optimize your search, minimize your brain
On its blog, Google announced its new search tool, Google Suggest, which will be rolled out as a default feature on Google’s search engine over …
Cuil Search Engine Comes Out of the Gate Stumbling
According to cuil.com’s homepage at the time this article was written, the Cuil search engine indexes an astounding 121,617,892,992 web pages. The question is how …
