A new service available through Google Experimental Labs has rolled out, allowing a user to search and find relevant material written by people they know. Social Search is not a Real Time Search like Twitter is -yet- but it may become that. Through your Google account and usage, Google figures out users you trust, and then [...]
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Google Simplifies Our Lives. Again. For Free.
Monday, June 29th, 2009In March, Google announced Google Voice, a new addition to the company’s toolbox of technology crafted to improve and simplify the way we manage our phone calls, texts and voicemail. The concept stems from Grand Central, bought by Google a few years ago. The tool enables users to use a single number for all incoming home, [...]
Read MoreGoogle News Now Trawling Wikipedia
Monday, June 22nd, 2009To acknowledge the popularity and large fan-base enjoyed by online user-derived dictionary/encyclopedia Wikipedia, Google News is now including it among the stable of publications its bots crawl to generate the site. While Wikipedia’s articles have long appeared among Google search results, now when you perform a search specific to Google News, some of the returned [...]
Read MoreBing off to a Respectable Start
Friday, June 12th, 2009While it remains premature to state victory, Microsoft’s latest attempt at search, Bing, is off to a respectable start. At a whopping two weeks old, Bing has generated a nice bump in users, possibly thanks to spreading the word about the newly released search engine.
According to comScore.com, Bing’s market share in the U.S. rose from [...]