Ah search engine wars--always good to keep the tech savvy amused, and today's fight is really spiky: Google and Yahoo are competing over how to include Tweets in their results. They've got two approaches. But Google's is ...READ»
Google called a high-profile press conference today, and used it to unveil not one big feature, but a number of current and future tweaks to its service. The list was impressive, so we've rounded up some of the cleverest tech for you.READ»
Remember that news about Google kind of getting into the mortgage game? New news means it looks like the search giant is serious about getting into helping you buy homes--Google's quietly pulling together a real estate database.
As ...READ»
Google's philanthropic Flu Trends site has been able to track swine flu about as well as health care surveillance, according to Bloomberg. What else can trending searches tell us about the state of health in the United ...READ»
Search engines would be more efficient if they were decentralized, reports MIT's Technology Review. In other words, they'd be faster if they were run like bot-nets.
Bot-nets are networks of zombie computers whose processing resources ...READ»
Google's tentacles extend everywhere online, including e-commerce--thanks to Google Checkout, for one. But now it's got a new system, Commerce Search, which companies can use to inject smart search skills into their online stores. ...READ»
Twitter is great for tracking trending topics, but not so hot for trending places. A new service attempts to change all that by creating standardized #hashtags for businesses, bars, and restaurants.
HashCeratops, as the service is ...READ»
Processing billions of queries a day almost guarantees that Google will get some mutations now and then. Today, TechRadar discussed some of the quiddities of Google's Suggest function, but the "WTF, Google?" meme goes much deeper. ...READ»
In the hope of cutting down on those billions of search results, Google announced today nine new "Search Options" that let you filter links by time, type and other criteria. Google first launched Search Options back in May with only ...READ»
