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Social’s Impact on Search – It’s All About Content

Neil Vidyarthi — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:25:17 +0000

Consumers are sharing more online every day. In fact, Facebook data reveals consumers share four billion things a day and Mark Zuckerberg predicts that every year, consumers will share twice as much as the year before. From photos and videos, to status updates and recommendations, consumer-generated content is increasingly common and incredibly powerful.

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StumbleUpon Gets A Facelift, Complete With New Logo & UI

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:35:47 +0000

If you’ve headed over to StumbleUpon this morning then you may have noticed that it looks a little different. They’ve traded in the old blue and green logo for a sleek new orange one and that’s only the beginning. The whole site has been given a much more engaging look and new changes make Stumbling easier than ever.
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History of StumbleUpon’s Influence on the Internet [Infographic]

Kenna McHugh — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:30:02 +0000

In 2007, StumbleUpon was created by the two friends, Garret Camp and Geoff Smith, who were in their early twenties and just finishing off post-graduate studies in Calgary, Canada. Camp told BBC the development of StumbleUpon started with a general idea of “how to discover really interesting information without searching for it.”

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Microsoft Licenses Jinni’s Semantic Video Search Technology…But What Will They Use It For?

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:00:51 +0000

Today Jinni, taste-and-mood based discovery engine for TV and movies, has announced that Microsoft has licensed their semantic video discovery technology. Jinni’s technology is a one-of-a-kind service that allows viewers to easily find content according to mood, plot, style and more and now Microsoft has access to the technology as well. But what will they be using it for? Only time will tell…
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Search Your Personal Cloud On An iPhone With Greplin

Frank McPherson — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:28:56 +0000

How much information do you have stored on the Internet? I use Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, and LinkedIn just to name a few Internet services where I store personal information, all of which amounts to my personal cloud. In order to find something I have to access each of the services individually, which can be very time consuming. Greplin is a search engine that indexes the information you store in these services allowing you to search for information across all of them from one web site, and they have released an iPhone app.
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Bing For Android Brings New Look And Facebook Sharing

Frank McPherson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:20:54 +0000

With the Bing app for Android, Microsoft is attempting to overcome the difficult challenge of enticing Android users to use their search rather than Google. Microsoft’s answer to the challenge is a standalone app that is graphically appealing and provides an easy way to search for things near one’s location.
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Google mobile Web App Searches by Platform

Todd Ogasawara — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:22:08 +0000

Frank McPherson noted here a year ago that:

Android And iPhone Apps Appear In Google Mobile Search Results

This mobile app search required the word “download” to precede an app name to increase the changes of correctly finding it in the appropriate app store. It looks like Google has change this process to be a tiny bit simpler in the intervening months. App searching is a bit hidden, however. Here’s how you do it:

1. Point your Android or iPhone browser at google.com
2. Tap the “more” link in the upper right side of the display
3. You will see a “tabbed” window like the one above with “Search” selected
4. Tap the “Apps” icon on the far right of the second row
5. Type in your app search term (see the screenshot immediately below)

Your results (see final screenshot) will only display apps from the appropriate app store. If you search on an Android phone, only links to apps in the Android Market will appear. If you search on an iPhone, only apps in the iTunes App Store will appear.

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Google Speeds Up Local Search And Building Search Queries

Frank McPherson — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:04:07 +0000

Today Google announced several improvements to their web search for desktop computers and mobile devices. Features like voice search and search by image introduced for smartphones are now available on desktop computers, while two new improvements have been added to Google’s mobile web search for Android and iPhone smartphones.
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Bing Now Lets You Search iPhone Apps

Bilal Hameed — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:00:15 +0000

With half a billion apps mounting in Apple store, finding the right app is a real challenge. Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, brings an app discovery solution to easily search for Apple iPhone apps. Bing introduced a new app for iPhone that provides search capability and recommends other relevant iPhone apps.

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Google Adds Image Search Sharing To Goggles

Frank McPherson — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:30:11 +0000

Google Goggles is an image-based search tool for Android. You take a picture of an object, and Goggles scans the object, performs image recognition, and then runs a search based on what it recognizes. An update has been released to Goggles that makes sharing search history with Google useful to you by providing the ability to share your searches via email and social media sites.
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Speed Up Search With DuckDuckGo

Frank McPherson — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:32:48 +0000

DuckDuckGo is a fast search engine that has a new Android app. DuckDuckGo speeds up the process of providing information that you are looking for by providing a snippet of information at the top of the page, before the search results, in what they call “zero-click info.”
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Complete Guide To The New YouTube Search

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:07:21 +0000

If you’ve tried to search for a video in YouTube over the last couple of days then you may have noticed that the YouTube Search interface has had a total makeover. ‘Search Options’ have become ‘Filter & Explore’ and offer a much wider variety of filters and means to find exactly what you’re looking for.
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Report: Consumers Demand Larger Screens On Smart Phones for Better Mobile Search

Bilal Hameed — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:50:49 +0000

Performics, a performance marketing research firm owned by Publicis Groupe, has released its 2011 Mobile Search Insights Study. The results of the study are overwhelmingly positive for mobile search space with 77 percent of the participants using mobile search more than five times a month . The study shows that 32 percent of the users polled said that they use search on mobile devices more than on PCs, whereas an astounding 75 percent stated that mobile search has made their lives easier.

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Report: Google Commands 97% of Mobile Search Advertising, Thanks To iPhone

Bilal Hameed — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:25:21 +0000

Mobile now commands 5% of the over all search spending in US and 97% of that market has been cornered by Google, according to a report by banking and investment firm Macquarie Group, using Efficient Frontier data. The report estimates that the mobile search spend could grow to $1.1 billion by the end of this year, which would represent a rise of 10% compared to 2010.

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12% Of Google Searches Have Been Affected… Why Didn't You Notice?

Katie Kindelan — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:10:19 +0000

The fact that “Google” is now longer just a company name but a verb in every language means it was, of course, major news last week when the online search giant announced it would change the way it carries out its Web searches. With the announced upgrade to its ranking algorithm, Google said it intended to beat back low-quality search results and deliver higher quality contents. What does the change really mean, and how is it working for you?

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