Shortly after the search industry received surprising news of Russia’s Yandex search engine taking over the fourth spot from Microsoft, France is now introducing their own search engine, currently available in 15 languages and in 35 countries all over the globe: Qwant.com. What makes this search engine interesting is that it pools together all search [...]
Something unexpected has happened in the battle for supremacy among search engines: Microsoft’s Bing no longer holds the top 4 four spot for the largest search engine worldwide, as Russia’s Yandex has surprisingly hit past Bing to claim the spot next to Yahoo, Baidu, and the number one search giant, Google. These global-wide reports came [...]
Graph Search, Facebook’s own social search engine has been launched yesterday, and already its benefits for reporters and journalists could prove highly immense. According to Facebook, the new functionality allows for more relevant searches, allowing journalists the opportunity for richer, more meaningful searches on any expert, photo, or trend on any given topic. This smart [...]
Facebook just unveiled Graph Search, a new search engine fully dedicated to search the content on the social network. This not a classic search engine like Google or Bing because here there are no links to websites, but only internal stuff to look for, like photos, videos, updates, Places and interests. With 1 billion members, [...]
For nineteen months the FTC or Federal Trade Commission has been investigating Google’s search results algorithm, after the search engine giant endured accusations that centered on search bias and its business practices not being excellent for competition. And according to the investigation results, Google is not unfair for the competition and has not been violating [...]
A few tweaks with Google Image Search has made it almost impossible for users to come across adult pictures; except, of course, in cases wherein they are deliberately looking for them. Through an overnight update on its search algorithm, Google has made it more of a challenge accessing these pictures, says CNET.com. However, a Google [...]
Google just published its “Zeitgeist” for the Year 2012. The lists are available for 55 countries. According to the Search engine, there were 1200 billion searches in 146 languages this year. Just so BIG! Each list by country offers the top 10 results for 20 categories (top, people, sports, celebrities, local…). Top 10 World Trends [...]
Written on 12 Dec 2012 by Vincent AbryA Year in Review, by Yahoo US, presents everything taht made the buzz in 2012. General Rankings for most searched keywords on Yahoo United States 1. Elections 2. iPhone 5 3. Kim Kardashian 4. Kate Upton 5. Kate Middleton 6. Whitney Houston 7. Olympics 8. Political Polls 9. Lindsay Lohan 10. Jennifer Lopez Top News [...]
Written on 03 Dec 2012 by Vincent AbryBing just released its annual Top Searches for this Year, in several categories. Here are the lists. Most searched Persons : Rank 2012 2011 1 Kim Kardashian Justin Bieber 2 Justin Bieber Kim Kardashian 3 Miley Cyrus Jennifer Aniston 4 Rihanna Lindsay Lohan 5 Lindsay Lohan Jennifer Lopez 6 Katy Perry Britney Spears 7 Selena [...]
Written on 27 Nov 2012 by Vincent AbryNew Google Logo is honoring Dracula’s father, Bram Stoker. This irish Gothic horror novel was written in 1897 by author Bram Stoker. On november 8th, Stoker (1847-1912) will be 165 years old and will be immortal just as his vampire. “Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story [...]
Written on 07 Nov 2012 by Vincent AbryThanks to Volunia’s Team and especially Massimo Marchiori for my Power User access to the site. Remember, I was writing about this new search engine from Italia in november 2011. Now first test on Volunia shows that the startup is going after Google and… Facebook. Because it’s not only a search engine, but also a [...]
Written on 05 June 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle has introduced a new, smarter way of handling search: easy access to answers through the Knowledge Graph. “We’ve always believed that the perfect search engine should understand exactly what you mean and give you back exactly what you want,” Google SVP Amit Singhal posted over at Google’s blog yesterday. “And we can now sometimes [...]
A newly redesigned Bing has been launched yesterday, as Microsoft aims at re-introducing a search engine that generates beautiful results and includes social networking in the picture. Over at their blog, Bing reiterated their proposition when they introduced Bing three years ago – “people should expect more from a search engine.” It seems that the [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, here is the new bing.com : As you can see, it looks like… Google. Microsoft announced on its blog that this new version of its search engine is live for United States starting today. A simpler interface yes… but also a copy of what made the success of Google. The left column [...]
Written on 02 May 2012 by Vincent AbryMatt Cutts explains in a 8-minute video How Google works. Head of the anti-spam team at Google does not reveals the secrets to be in 1st position on the search engine result pages, but rather a historical overview of how the search engine works. Matt explains Google’s ranking and website evaluation process works, backlinks, the importance of PageRank to be visited often (and yes PR is still relevant!), crawling timelines, priorities, indexing and filtering processes. SEO Pros won’t learn anything here, but the video is interesting for beginners.
Written on 24 April 2012 by Vincent AbryIf Google was invented in the 80s, it would look like this: Ok you’re going to say it’s just a picture… No! It’s a real working version of Google in a DOS-style (or french Minitel)! Visit this page to see it in action : masswerk.at/googleBBS/. 30 years in the past, and pay attention to the [...]
Written on 14 April 2012 by Vincent AbryIf privacy is a major concern for you – like for most people – you might have been upset by the recent changes in Google’s private policy. Now, there is a solution for you – a little search engine called DuckDuckGo.com. Duck Duck Go may be small but numbers continue to climb and the search [...]
Google is known for keeping on top of newer technology, after all it does have competitors in Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Bing, in terms of search engines. To stay on top of the game and remain dominant in the internet market, Google is working on developing a more in-depth search engine experience. Over the years, [...]
Cuill search engine was launched in 2008 by former Google and IBM employees, but was closed in 2010. Even with 33 million dollars and the promise it was supposed to be better than Google, faster, cheaper (10% of Google costs), deeper (3 more times indexed pages) and having a technology better than Page Rank. “According [...]
Written on 21 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryHere is a new infographic about Google History. This is not the first time we see this kind of information but here we have a special format : animated like a cartoon. When Larry Page Met Sergey Brin in 1995 … : Year by year, from 1995 to 2011, here is the history and milestones [...]
Written on 07 Feb 2012 by Vincent Abry
