Starting this week or next, Google will be adding blogs as new feature in its Universal Search results. What’s this mean? According to Marissa Mayer, VP of search products and user experience, search queries on Google will now return links to blogs alongside the images, books, local maps, video, and news.Google’s Universal Search [...]
Yahoo worked on this Plugin with the help of Wordpress, and being a lifelong Wordpress user (SEJ first started on Blogger, then switched to b2; which became Wordpress) I thought it my duty to not only report on the Plugin itself (with the help of SEJ’s Search News Anchor Julie Kent), but also test and [...]
Canadian cable and telecom giant Rogers Communications has begun testing new technology on its high-speed internet service that inserts Rogers-centric messages and advertisements on third-party websites. While that in itself is enough to piss off the likes of Google, who pride themselves on a clutter-free homepage, the fact that the messages carry the name [...]
Google has been testing the placement of product and video results on the right side of the Google results page, which is valuable real estate usually reserved for AdWords ads. ValleyWag has the scoop with some screen captures of the limited test (I’m going to link to ValleyWag at the bottom of this post because [...]
Everyday I am amazed by the countless number of pointless tags that are inserted into the header of a website. The largest issue with such tags is that they push a website’s content further down within the source code of the page. I will freely admit that Google and the other search [...]
Jacob Leibenluft at Slate recently wrote a piece about Yahoo Answers, summing up the entire service as a “ librarian’s worst nightmare“. My worst nightmare as a library professional is more along the lines of a crazy patron wreaking havoc at the library and jeopardizing my sanity, not one’s use of an unreliable source [...]
Google has launched the new version of its Toolbar for Internet Explorer (Sorry Firefox fans) which is currently in beta version. If you are still using the IE browser, there are 5 new reasons why you would continue to love the Google Toolbar1. ) Add Google Gadgets - Google Toolbar now gives users easy access [...]
Microsoft announced that they have acquired MultiMap today, which is one of the United Kingdom’s top 100 technology companies and one of the leading online mapping services in the world. The MultiMap move gives Microsoft a new location and mapping technology to complement existing offerings such as Virtual Earth and Windows Live Local, especially in [...]
Recently there has been a lot of chatter about .edu top-level domains. From whether a .edu TLD packs more Google-juice punch to whether one can actually register one, there’s been a lot of mis-information floating around the web. So let’s once and for all set the record straight on .edu domains.What are .edu [...]
Search engines are as much the first source of information as they are the starting point for research. Summarization of content of query results is an innovative technique to obtain an intelligent response from thesystem. This is the concept behind SenseBot and I am glad that Dmitri Soubbotin took the time to answer a [...]
