October 5, 2010
No matter what topic you are interested in, Google can only go so far in providing you with the search results that you need. You have to remember that Google is searching through the entire Internet in order to offer you relevant results about your unique topic. The more unique or specialized the topic, the [...]
October 4, 2010
As the world’s largest search engine, Google knows an awful lot about the ways people look for information and what kind of results most users want to see. They have made several strides in improving the tools we have for searching online, one of which was through the integration of Google Suggest into their search [...]
October 2, 2010
The ways we search for information online are constantly evolving. One of the most interesting (comparatively) new methods currently being developed by companies around the web revolves around the idea of using images as a basis for search queries. Of course we already have a plethora of color-based image search engines as well as other [...]
October 1, 2010
During the past few years, as I’ve specialized in search engine analysis and Internet search trends, there is one single tool that came along and made my work much easier. It is an amazing tool that can identify niche opportunities and potential story ideas, and it can do most of the difficult search trend analysis [...]
September 20, 2010
Last week’s introduction of Google’s Instant search has been a huge boom. Basically, the new fast browser search feature lets you see the results while you type a search term. The new feature is sure to result in a new search behavior but in reality, instant search had been there long before the introduction. This [...]
September 18, 2010
It’s never been a secret that Google uses your personal information (web history and browser data) by default to personalize your search results. Basically what it means is that what you see for some Google searches is (slightly) different from what other people see for the same searches. You may like the feature (but want [...]
September 8, 2010
If one half of our day is spent on the browser, you can be sure that the other is spent on the mobile phone. Mobile apps are the ‘new’ web. Today, we are using them to do nearly everything; from watching out for a sunny day to taking the latest stock quotes. But how do [...]
July 27, 2010
Calling Wolfram Alpha a computational knowledge engine surely puts off a lot of people who are mathematically and statistically challenged. I am one of them, so it took me a fair amount of time to get around to using Wolfram Alpha and the way it takes a query and spits out factual data. If you [...]
July 12, 2010
The two things that make Wikipedia great can be summed up by the two words under its logo ““ Free Encyclopedia. The latter word stands for something that deals with the entire range of human knowledge. That for me covers movies, music, and anything that’s close to entertainment. Wikipedia as a film guide got a [...]
July 7, 2010
Google has been working hard to fit various people’s searching needs and find what they need even they don’t know what they are looking for. The set of features developed by Google aiming at making it easier to search and find should be helpful for most people. But according to Google’s official guide, “sometimes Google [...]
