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Common Search Query Modifiers
21st March 2011
While people can search for almost everything through the search engines, a recently conducted study has found that certain terms are used very commonly with each query. More »
Adoption And Surrogacy Through The Internet
22nd February 2011
The rapid advances that take place regularly in the field of medical science, coupled with the changes in everyday lifestyles, have led to a growing number of couples opting for adoption or surrogacy as a means of having a child. More »
Digital Commerce In The USA In 2010
9th February 2011
A report from comScore indicates that the e-commerce industry recovered well in 2010. The total spend on e-commerce in the U.S.A. was $227.6billion during the course of last year. More »
Google Fights Self-Promo Claims By Harvard Professor
24th January 2011
2011 has started with Google having to face multiple attacks of self promotion and invasion of privacy from a number of fronts. Claims of bias in Google’s organic search results have risen time and again. The latest one comes from Harvard University. More »
Google Can Now Recognise Your Voice
17th December 2010
Google Voice Search can now recognise the voice of individual users. This advance voice recognition service will only be available to users of Android version 2.2 or later. More »
Could TrueView Ads Be YouTube’s Saviour?
14th December 2010
Google’s struggle to monetise YouTube on the same scale as it has monetised search has been well documented. They recently announced a new ad format, called TrueView Video Ads, which could be the answer they’ve been looking for all along. More »
Yahoo! Clues Point To Anti-Gay Bias?
25th November 2010
Yahoo! has recently launched a new keyword and search comparison tool called Yahoo! Clues. This tool allows search marketers to study patterns followed by users while conducting a search. It also gives information about what terms were searched just before and after a particular keyword. The tool however, has made some glaring omissions. More »
Jeeves Made Redundant? Ask Ends Search
12th November 2010
Ask.com, which was previously known as Ask Jeeves, had restarted their Question & Answer service in July. They will now concentrate solely on this and shut down their search service. More »
Advancing Google Place Search
2nd November 2010
A new search feature called Place Search was introduced by Google last week. After a rather unobtrusive start, local search is now looking like it might drastically change the presentation of results for organic search. Is this being done at the expense of other search services? More »
Google v Bing – Kings Of Social Search?
21st October 2010
Microsoft engineers teamed up with Facebook developers, once again to make Bing search results more social. This new social search service was announced just a week age. Since then, it could only be a matter of time before Google did something similar. Predictably, Google has just introduced social enhancements to their search service. More »
Google Discloses Revenue Breakdown
18th October 2010
For the first time ever, Google has provided a breakdown of the revenue generated by various sections of their business. More »
Popularity Of Navigational Searches
4th October 2010
A recent post on the comScore blog indicates that when people wish to visit a particular brand’s website, they are likely to search using the site address rather than typing the URL in the browser’s address bar. More »
Bing Recommends Twitter Users Based On Search
27th September 2010
Bing Social now recommends Twitter users that a user could follow, based on their search query. The new feature is known as ‘People Recommendation’. More »
Google Defends Shrinking Chinese Market
23rd September 2010
In spite of recent reports suggesting that Google has lost a substantial portion of their market share in China, the search giant has not given up the fight. More »
Google’s Share Drops To Half After China Withdrawal
15th September 2010
While Google is the leader for mobile search with over 90% of the market share on a global basis, they have recently suffered a setback in China. More »
Google Provides Instant Search Results
9th September 2010
A super-fast new search interface on Google.com, known as Google Instant, has set the Internet abuzz. While the idea seems cool, many are worried about the ramifications of throwing so much information at users. More »
Tracking User Interaction With Search Results
1st September 2010
Results of a recent eye-tracking study conducted at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona sheds light on interesting user behavior on a universal search results page. More »
Yahoo! Search Now Powered By Bing
26th August 2010
The Microsoft – Yahoo! Search deal has finally reached the stage of implementation. More »
Yahoo! Testing Bing Integration
6th August 2010
Yahoo! and Microsoft had struck a deal for a search and advertising partnership last July. The integration of the two search engines has finally started last month. More »
Ask.com Returns To Q&A Format
5th August 2010
Ask.com will soon stop working as a regular search engine as the directors have decided to take the site back to its original Q&A format. More »
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