6 Better Ways to Search Google

Everyone uses Google these days and often multiple times each day. We use it for work, for fun and for general interest. It has made our researching so much easier. Google makes looking up the most mundane detail simple. Need a phone number for the pizza place down the street? Google it. The possibilities are endless. However, did you know you can get more from your Google searches? It’s true and here are six tips to achieving more productive Google search results:

Daniel Scocco on June 30, 2008 | Filed Under Search Engines | 14 Comments

Google and the Paradigm Computing Shift

It’s an ironic situation, and yet prophetic at the same time.

Google is set to take over Microsoft as the largest monopoly sometime next year, or so analysts say. Microsoft still has the very profitable Office software suite which is worth around $13 billion a year. Google made about $6 billion last year, so it still has some way to go.

Laurence on May 30, 2008 | Filed Under Search Engines | 5 Comments

Yahoo Enters Offline/Online Arena with its BrowserPlus Tool

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Yahoo continues with its roster of product offerings, the latest being BrowserPlus, a Web Browser plug-in that provides functionality to cache content offline and a lot more. The initial descriptions from the FAQ seem to point to a browser tool that could do much more than Google Gears, the offline/online caching tool provided by Google.

Arun on April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Search Engines | Leave a Comment

Yahoo Upgrades oneSearch

At CTIA Yahoo upgraded its oneSearch mobile search to include features such as voice enabled search, predictive text search assist and will also make the oneSearch platform available to third party publishers for better integration with the mobile web.

An excerpt from TechNewsWorld:

Arun on April 7, 2008 | Filed Under Search Engines | 1 Comment

Topicle: Community Powered Search Engine

There is an argument going around the Internet that says that Google has its days counted. Basically these people argue that you can not search the Internet algorithmically. That is, you need to have some human input in the process if you want to make sure that the results are relevant.

Daniel Scocco on March 18, 2008 | Filed Under Search Engines | 1 Comment

Google Search Comes to More Nokia Phones

Nokia and Google announced their partnership to integrate Google search into search applications on more Nokia mobile phones.

Arun on March 13, 2008 | Filed Under Search Engines | Leave a Comment

Google Introduces New Search Views

Google announced its experimental search views to add spice to the different ways in which a user could view search results.

Mentioned on the Google blog post are the Map view, the timeline view and the Info-view. Google does seem to be working on the different ways to represent information depending on the context in which the information can be made more jazzy.

Arun on February 9, 2008 | Filed Under Search Engines | 2 Comments

Google and DoCoMo: The Marriage of Mobile Technology and the Internet

Last January 24, Internet giant Google Inc. and Tokyo-based mobile provider NTT DoCoMo announced a revolutionary partnership where the former would provide web services to the latter’s handsets.

In a joint statement, Google’s search engine results, AdWords advertising platform, along with other search and advertising services, will be available via DoCoMo’s i-mode handsets. This will hopefully aid in the quest for user-friendliness of i-mode handsets.

Loki on January 31, 2008 | Filed Under Search Engines | 2 Comments

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