Google 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 [...]
Matt 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.
If 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 [...]
If 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 [...]
Here 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 [...]
Google just unveiled Social Search : an integration of Google Plus directly in search engine results pages. To activate it when it will be available in a few days (on google.com) you will need to click this icon to start to see social results (you need to have a google account and to be connected) [...]
StumbleUpon has 20 million members, 17 million monthly visits and 230 million page views. With big numbers like these, the social network is able to publish some interesting statistics about its most popular terms from its top searchbox. Most searched keywords of the year on SU are : Super Bowl, Japan Tsunami, British Royal Wedding, [...]
Each year, Google gives us the most searched terms in the World, it’s called Zeitgeist. Here are the Fastest Rising Searches of 2011 : 1. Rebecca Black (13 year-old singer, making the buzz on youtube with Friday) 2. Google + 3. Ryan Dunn (Jackass member lost life in car accident) 4. Casey Anthony (charged with [...]
Out the black toolbar at the top of every page on Google. Now it will be a gray-white transparent toolbar. By clicking on the Google logo on the left, you can access the main menu to navigate between search, images, maps, youtube, News, Gmail, Google Docs and everything else. “Instead of the horizontal black bar [...]
Apparently Google is not so good for our brain and especially our memory. Because instead of remembering things like appointments, notes, names, images, research, translations, etc … we just use the search engine to find in matter of seconds what we want. Well it sounds normal to me as we know that Google is online [...]
Google created a 6 minute video that show evolution of search since its inception in 1996. What is the future of search? Mobile ? Voice with technologies such as Siri? Or with Mind with EEG headsets? Click on the image to see Google Search Timeline : [via]
Bing has unveiled its traditional top list of most searched keywords of the year (US here). Justin Bieber takes first place for celebrities and singers, while Casey Anthony Case is one of the most searched news in 2011 in the United States. For Sports, Maria Sharapova and Tiger Woods are the first 2 most searched. [...]
Here is an infographic on everything you wanted to know about Advanced Google Search. How to Google ? Very useful info here, add it to your favorites! via
Volunia wants to challenge the landscape of online research and especially… Google, which market share is still huge in the industry. This is not the first time a search engine tries to challenge Google, but this time will it succeed or… will it blend ? May be there is a little hope this time because [...]
Google just added the “Verbatim” option in its search engine. It allows you to search an exact word or phrase without Google applying any filter. It will replace the old “+” that is now used to find pages from Google Plus directly in the search field (Direct Connect). By removing the filter, this means ignoring [...]
In the war between Internet Giants, Facebook just scored a Huge point. The social network has surpassed Google in terms of time spent online by users. Actually it all started at the end of 2010. Google, Yahoo and Facebook were tied. But this year, we have a totally different picture : AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft [...]
