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Google promoted its Social Search experiment to beta status on Wednesday. Social Search adds information and images from users' public pages to the results of online searches conducted by members of their social network. Users need a Google profile to get results from Social Search. Social has been ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday took the stage to deliver a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ballmer showcased products from several partners at the event, including a tablet device made by HP. He also announced a tie-in with HP to promote the Bing search engin...
Google is looking at quantum computing to help it sort through the millions of searches it conducts daily, and it's working with processors from Canadian company D-Wave. Quantum computing will help Google with the sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies such as machine learning and patter...
The war in the search engine market has evolved from a contest of speed and scale to one of innovation. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all tied in with Twitter for real-time search. Google and Bing are also focusing on visual search, although the two define that term differently. In addition, Bing...
Google on Monday announced expansions to its search service that will provide real-time content to update search results. Google also demonstrated Google Goggles, a visual search application that calls up information from Google's databases when people take a photo of objects with their Android phon...
Taking on one of Google's most popular Web applications, Microsoft introduced a beta for Bing Maps that incorporates improved imagery, 3-D photographs and street views using tools made possible by its Silverlight technology. The Streetside feature puts users on street level, letting them walk around...
A manipulated image of Michelle Obama that drew headlines and controversy when it became the first result users saw when performing a Google Image search for the First Lady was pulled down Wednesday -- but not by Google. While the picture may have disappeared, questions about Google's response to so...
In the world of search engine optimization, a perennial argument is whether Google's ranking factors look for clean code in a Web site. The W3C has developed two popular tools that check Web sites for errors: The W3C validation tool looks at HTML code, while the CSS validation tool checks the CSS St...
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers may vote to allow internationalized domain names at the association's ongoing meeting in Seoul. Assuming the proposal is adopted, countries can apply to test country-code top level domains beginning in mid-November. IDNs are domain...
For Google, the recent effort to mix social media with traditional search results is all about relevance -- thus its efforts such as Google Social Search, which the company rolled out in experimental form late Monday. However, can the results really be that effective if they don't include the full p...
Despite a multi-million-dollar ad campaign, interest in Microsoft's new Bing search engine may be leveling off, according to new market share findings this week from two Web tracking services. However, the competition from Bing may still be weighing heavily on Google, if this week's addition of new ...
Google on Wednesday launched Sidewiki, a Web annotation tool that serves as a comment forum for Web pages. Sidewiki ranks entries according to their relevance, as determined by Google's own algorithm. It will also place those comments on Web pages that carry the information which sparked the comment...
Microsoft has plumped up Bing with Visual Search, a Silverlight-powered add-on that returns search results based on images instead of text. A user can initiate a search for digital cameras, for example, by clicking on an image in the Visual Search gallery. That generates hundreds of camera images; t...
As if its widely acknowledged dominance of the U.S. search engine market is not enough, Google on Tuesday revealed that it's working on a next-generation architecture for Web search. The formerly secret project, code-named "Caffeine," is the first step in a process to improve the search engine in va...
When I first started skip tracing -- that is, finding people -- my only tool was the telephone and my only resource for searching was directory assistance. Unbelievably, I was able to find people from London to Fiji, but it was costly and extremely time consuming. Half my search time was trying to b...
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