Posts Tagged ‘Search’

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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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.

In the developmental stages of the platform Camp was a big fan of Google. “It had been around for a year or two in the mainstream. But it was still only good if you actually knew what you wanted to look for.”

Today Jinni, taste-and-mood based discovery engine for TV and movies, has announced that Microsoft has licensed their semantic video discovery technology.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]