A Start-Up Offers a New Way to Search the Web
Trapit, a start-up that opens to the public Tuesday, offers a new way to search the Web for topics by using machine learning. It is trying to provide an alternative to Google's search engine and link...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name? Ask Google
Web searches can help parents ensure that their child is not saddled with a negatively connoted name, but a unique, or uncommon one.
View ArticleGoogle Adds Posts From Its Social Network to Search Results
In what it says is one of the biggest changes to its search results, Google will begin showing posts, photos, profiles and conversations from Google+, its social network, in search results. The new...
View ArticleGoogle’s New Search Results Raise Privacy and Antitrust Concerns
Google's decision to add Google Plus posts and profiles to search results this week prompted a backlash from some people in the technology, privacy and antitrust worlds. Some have said that it violates...
View ArticleBlekko Works With Lavasoft on Spam-Free Search
Blekko will announce a partnership with Lavasoft, which makes security software that detects spyware and adware on users' PCs.
View ArticleDaily Report: U.S. Escalates Google Antitrust Case
Federal regulators escalated their antitrust investigation of Google on Thursday by hiring a prominent litigator, sending a strong signal that they are prepared to take the Internet giant to court,...
View ArticleGoing Social, but Not Creepy, in the New Bing
Microsoft rolled out a new version of its Bing search engine with new features aimed at weaving together the experience of Internet searching and social network sharing, but it omitted one...
View ArticleGoogle Broadens Its Search Vision
With Facebook about to go public Friday, Google announced big changes to its search results. Many have predicted that Facebook's "social graph" will make Google's search results irrelevant. Google's...
View ArticleNew Google Tools to Make the Search Engine More All-Knowing
At an event for reporters Wednesday, Google showed tools that make the search engine more omniscient, including some that are bound to raise red flags on privacy. They include incorporating personal...
View ArticleThree Tips for Better Google Searching
Here are three tips — basic, intermediate and advanced — from the man in charge of user happiness at Google and a teacher of free online courses on how to use the search engine.
View ArticleA Class to Teach You How to Use Google
Using Google seems simple enough. But the company says that most people are not taking advantage of all the features Google offers, from simple to sophisticated, to make searching more efficient. So it...
View ArticleDaily Report: Google Fills in the Blank, and a German Cries Foul
A former first lady of Germany, Bettina Wulff, has sued Google because the search giant's autocomplete function provides the words "Bettina Wulff prostitute” and “Bettina Wulff escort” when her name is...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Google’s Search Page
Google’s look has changed significantly since it started in 1997. While the search engine originally returned basic blue links to other Web pages, it now also shows ads, photos, maps, answers to...
View ArticleA Better Way to Find Web Images
Because an image can be found on the Internet only if the text entered by a searcher matches the text used to label it, scientists are working on a new generation of visual technologies.
View ArticleA Search Engine Made for Mobile Devices
Google might have won the Web search game, but a start-up with a new mobile search engine thinks it can compete on tablets, because people are more likely to be relaxed and in the mood to flip through...
View ArticleGoogle Search Terms Can Predict Stock Market, Study Finds
A new study found that by tracking certain search terms in Google Trends, researchers could predict whether the Dow Jones industrial average would rise or fall the following week.
View ArticleGoogle Changes Search Algorithm, Trying to Make Results More Timely
Google made an unusually wide-reaching change to its search algorithm to show more real-time results.
View ArticleA Start-Up Offers Help With Advertising on Facebook
Trada, which crowdsources search engine ads, now does the same for social networking ads, which it says will change the future of search.
View ArticleGoogle Reveals Tweaks to Its Search Algorithm
Google, which is trying to make the black box of its search algorithm more transparent, revealed 10 of the 500 changes a year it makes to the algorithm. They affect searches in rare languages and those...
View ArticleA Start-Up Offers a New Way to Search the Web
Trapit, a start-up that opens to the public Tuesday, offers a new way to search the Web for topics by using machine learning. It is trying to provide an alternative to Google's search engine and link...
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