Google's new Search Plus Your World initiative is not a full-frontal assault on making search social, but it is insinuated throughout the search experience. And there's a potential problem here: It's all about Google+. Is Google abusing its monopoly again?READ»
Slim Shady sets a new digital sales record with "Recovery." Google's missing Realtime search. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»
Google unveiled plans to make Net searches lighting quick with Instant Pages. This is possible only because Google's "very confident that we know what search results you want." Sure, you'll shave five seconds or so off all your searches--but it's not without some complexities. READ»
Google's launching a new quiz powered by its search engine, with questions published in The New York Times right above the skill-requiring, brain-taxing crossword puzzle. Either this is some weak-sauce PR, or Google's positioning itself as the puzzle arbiter of the next generation.READ»
The next stage in the search engine battle has arrived: Microsoft is boosting its Bing system with a similar "instant results" feature to Google's, aiming to speed up the process significantly. READ»
Google's just raised the stakes for its Social Search, peppering your search results with links from your pals, adding context, and giving you control over whose links you see. READ»
Google may be the market leader, and innovating frantically, but the search engine wars rumble on all the same: Yahoo and Twitter have just tweaked their own search offerings to improve things, and some of it's pretty clever.Yahoo ...READ»
Google is very careful with the design of its search page--though the look and feel may not be to your taste, Google usually only adjusts it incrementally. Now there's news it's trying something actually big--pop-over full page result previews.READ»
The Redmond-based search engine launched its user rewards scheme today, cunningly titled Bing Rewards. But Microsoft takes loyalty seriously -- shunning users of Google, Firefox, and Apple.READ»
"Bing bing bing!" You can bet Steve Ballmer is singing that ditty at Microsoft HQ today. A survey has placed his upstart search engine ahead of Yahoo. How long until Google feels the heat?READ»
Google's Image Search is getting an experimental user-interface revamp right now, and some of the ideas appear to come from Microsoft's Bing.Google has adjusted the site's look so that where there was formerly whitespace, there are ...READ»
Bing just upped its effort in the search engine war against Google with an updated iPhone app. Just in time for iOS4's firmware update, the app has a bunch of tweaks, but one, real Google-beater: Barcode scanning for quick product ...READ»
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»
We already know Google wants to be everything for everyone in search. Now they're extending that goal into the real world, sticking physical tags on the windows of actual businesses from its online Favorite Places catalog. Should ...READ»
A big surprise was buried in Google's real time search cavalcade yesterday: The teeny, tiny role that Facebook played in the news.
Accompanied by lots of "wow! look at that!" speech, Google's real-time search updates were the ...READ»
