Google working on enhancing semantic capabilities of their search engine
Google senior executive Amit Singhal has stated that the company would boost the semantic search capabilities of their primary product Google Search. The company has worked on boosting their semantics database for around two years now. This would help them…
Google encrypted search coming to logged accounts on local domains
Google recently made a significant change on their search platform. Users logged on to Google.com were switched to encrypted Google for all their searches. The company has now announced that they are now prepared to roll out this update to…
Google officially launches improved related image searches
We have already posted about this feature which was one of the many limited experiments conducted with a set of users by the company. Google has now officially launched the improved related image searches functionality on Google Image Search engine….
Google Flight Search comes to mobile devices
Google has announced that they are now extending their flight search services to mobile devices in the US market. You can now search for flights in the US market using your mobile phone. Results are available through the Google.com search…
Google acquire patents owned by Cuil!
Cuil was launched as a promising startup aimed at taking on the domination of Google in the search engine space. The launch was a disaster as users found that the service was nowhere near the quality standards offered by Google….
DuckDuckGo now seeing around 1 million direct searches per day!
DuckDuckGo is nowhere near challenging the search engine giants but it is one of the most popular alternatives out there. The company has just revealed that they are now seeing around 1 million direct searches per day. We received over…
Google testing a new quick preview image search enhancement for suggested searches
Google is running a test on their image search engine. This test is related to the search suggestions shown by Google at the top of the results. The test enables the user to get a quick preview of the search…
Google changing how Top Search Queries for your website on Webmaster Tools
Google has made a change related to how they calculate your website’s Top Search Queries. The update is designed to showcase more accurate information about the rankings of your web pages. Google said: Previously we reported the average position of…
Facebook, Twitter and MySpace releases Focus on the user Bookmarklet for Google Search
Some developers of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace collaborated together in creating a new bookmarklet named ‘don’t be evil’ as part of a project named ‘Focus on the user’. This bookmarklet would enhance the social results shown on Google search result…
Amazon set to launch a Google Site Search rival?
Amazon is holding a media event to announce a new service tomorrow. Online sources indicate the new service would be a cloud based search engine. Reports say that Amazon is targeting Google Site Search and similar offerings. Web publishers would…