Microsoft Bing may be well behind Google in the search market, but it has trumped Google in social software tools, thanks to its Liked Results deal with Facebook. – Microsoft announced several updates
to its Bing search engine, including improvements to its user experience, local
and mobile capabilities.
Google has made great strides in these areas, too. The
leading search engine launched its Google Places local business search in April, overhauled its sear…
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SEO for PDF Files Posted By : wiletritz
You might not be much into keeping interest in in knowing what SEO is however it remains a fact that at certain point youd need using it if you are a businessperson. With the passing time, the value of Search Engine Optimization is growing and there is no second thought to the idea that it would continue to be important for everything from videos to articles. The base of SEOs is the usage of keywords and this is how articles and videos get located on various search engines.
Google Adds Hacked Site Alarm for Search Results
Google has added a new warning to steer users from compromised sites in search results. – Google has added extra notification to search results to alert users when
they are in danger of traveling to a compromised site.
When Google believes a site has been hacked, a sentence will appear under
the search result stating, quot;This site may be compromised. quot; Google
provides a simila…
Bing Gains on Google Search King, Yahoo: comScore
Microsoft Bing picked up search share in November, grabbing 11.8 percent share at the expense of Google and Yahoo. Google still wields 66 percent of the market. – Google and Yahoo each lost a smidgen of search engine
market share to Microsoft Bing, which rose to 11.8 percent share through
November, according to researcher comScore.
Google
maintained its 66 percent search engine market share through November, slipping
from 66.3 percent to 66.2 percent dur…
Google, MySpace Add Display Ads to Search, Ad Tie
Google and MySpace renewed their search and advertising deal Dec. 16, adding some display advertising to the mix. The deal is believed to exclude minimum payments. – Google and MySpace renewed their search and advertising deal Dec. 16, likely
at a reduced cost to the $900 million the search engine paid to place ads on
the fallen social network four years ago.
In the new multiyear agreement, Google will continue to power MySpace Web
search and text-based sear…
Apache Solr 1.5 With More Functionality Posted By : Lucidimagination
Massive scalability capabilities via distributed search, indexing and shard management Up until now, Solr scales pretty well on the search side
Get Personal with Voice Search
Cast your mind back to a couple of years ago when Google first launched Voice Search. When they did, they wanted it to work perfectly. And it did; for the most part. Voice Search works pretty well because it was made with speech models that allow for a wide variety of inflections, without taking gender, [...]
Google Uses Your Speech to Personalize Voice Search
Google Dec. 14 began letting users link Voice Search queries made from their Android 2.2 smartphones to their Google Accounts. The idea is to boost recognition accuracy. – Google Dec. 14 said it is offering to link queries users speak into their Android smartphones to their Google Accounts to improve speech recognition for that user over time.
It’s called personalized recognition and it represents a
graduation of Voice Search, which has become a popular search app …
Google Defends Local Search Strategy from Rivals’ Gripes
Google claimed it’s Google Places, Place Search and Place Pages are designed to deliver the best information to users, but TripAdvisor, Yelp, Citysearch and WebMd feel slighted. – Google Dec. 13 defended itself from suggestions that it
gives its own Place Pages local search service preferential treatment on Google.com,
arguing that anything it does is to help users find the best information
possible.
The issue arose after the Wall Street
Journal published this story (p…
Property Professionals and Seekers Alike: The Search is Over Posted By : Intellectsoft
The Lonres application for the iPhone gives property professionals operating in the London area a leading edge.
Google Boosts Copyright, Piracy Protection for Search
Google will process copyright takedown requests for content on Google.com and Blogger within 24 hours in 2011. The changes follow YouTube’s Content ID protection scheme. – Google Dec. 2 said it plans to improve its copyright and piracy protection
procedures, including processing copyright takedown requests for content within
24 hours.
The search engine said it is building tools to improve the submission
process to make it easier for rights-holders to submit Digita…
Google Tweaks Search to Hamper DecorMyEyes, Bad Actors
Google Dec. 1 changed its search algorithm to push down Websites of DecorMyEyes, whose owner misbehaved egregiously, and other merchants who provide a poor consumer experience. – Google Dec. 1 said it has altered its search algorithm to prohibit Website proprietors from boosting search rankings by mistreating customers.
The search engine tweaked its search after The New York Times ran a profile of Vitaly Borker, the owner of DecorMyEyes who taunted, insulted and denigrated…
EU Burdened with Proving Google Antitrust Claim
It’s hard to find folks who believe the European Commission will successfully hammer Google for pumping up its search results over those of smaller rivals. – Legal experts, search gurus and financial analysts don’t believe Google
should sweat the European Commission’s formal investigation into it allegedly
boosting its search results over smaller rivals.
That’s because Europe’s antitrust watchdog is saddled with the burden of
proving that Google fidd…
Google Faces EU Antitrust Investigation Over Search
The European Union is investigating claims from smaller search engines that Google has violated fair competition rules by boosting its results. Google denies the claims. – The European Union’s inquiry into Google’s search practices has evolved into a full-blown investigation as the agency’s antitrust watchdog pledged to take a hard look at the search engine.
Foundem, eJustice and Microsoft’s Ciao filed complaints last February with the EU, alleging that Google surfac…
Bing.com Kim Kardashian Most-Searched Celebrity Of 2010
Socialite and reality personality Kim Kardashian was the most popular search term on Microsoft’s Bing search engine in 2010, edging out scandal-stained celebs Sandra Bullock and Tiger Woods, who rounded out the Top 3, Microsoft said Tuesday. In a year when politics dominated national news and acts like Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga were tops [...]
Easy Methods for Search within PDF Posted By : wiletritz
Todays businesses follow a standard method for documentation which is in the portable document format. As a matter of fact, in 2008s July, the International Organization for Standardization issued a number and declared that the format was an open standard. Its open standard means the creator of the format has the rights to each and every conceivable usage. Also, prior to its standardization, many noteworthy offices all around the world had been making full use of the format by converting documents from word to pdf and reaping benefits.
Hackers Target Thanksgiving Day Search Terms: Report
Security researcher CyberDefender is warning that attackers are targeting users searching online for Thanksgiving Day invitations. – Expanding their focus from Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals,
cyber-criminals are also targeting invitations to Thanksgiving dinner, security
researchers warned Nov. 24.
Users searching for Thanksgiving Day invitations online may encounter
dangerous malware, according to a security alert poste…
Solr Search Application Posted By : Lucidimagination
Thousands of organizations around the world have turned to the power of Apache Solr/Lucene open source technology to drive their cutting-edge search applications.
Now, LucidWorks Enterprise, the new search solution development platform from the Lucene/Solr experts at Lucid Imagination, leverages the cost-effective architecture of open source search technology to let you build search applications that scale economically
Toggle File Extension Display with a Shortcut Key Posted By : Agnes Celina
Many users are in search of reliable and unfailing method that will toggle their file extensions displays with the help of shortcut keys.



