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November 17, 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:19 AM/EST

Google Image Swirl Renders Results Like Google Wonder Wheel

Google Nov. 17 launched Google Image Swirl from Google Labs, sets of animated image clusters that borrow from the graphical representation of Google's Wonder Wheel view of related search results. Google Image Swirl renders similar images in stacks on a Web page, not unlike the concept of a set of photos in a user's hand.

November 16, 2009

Monday, November 16, 2009 7:01 PM/EST

Google Translate Gets New Look, Text to Speech

Google Translate Nov. 16 got a lot more useful with some new features, including instant translation, read/write accessibility to languages written in some non-Roman characters and scripts, and text to speech.

November 11, 2009

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:17 AM/EST

Google Adds World Bank to Public Data Search

Google Nov. 11 added World Bank as a new source of statistical data to its search engine results, letting users mine an internatiional source for stats on such topics as electricity consumption per capita, or carbon dioxide emissions per capita. Google's addition of the World Bank data to its search engine comes, convienently, the same day Microsoft's Bing partnered with Wolfram Alpha to provide stats from that statisticial super engine.

November 9, 2009

Monday, November 09, 2009 7:22 AM/EST

Murdoch: News Corp to Hide Paid Content from Google

What we have here is a bonafide Catch-22. Go Google, and get read. Shun Google, and go invisible online. What we have here is a bonafide Catch-22. Go Google, and get read. Shun Google, and go invisible online.

October 28, 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:39 PM/EST

Google's Music Search Launches with MySpace, Lala

Google is teaming with MySpace, Lala and others to let users find millions of songs right from the search engine. This move is both a slam dunk and a given. It's a slam dunk because it will appeal to the millions of music lovers who want to find music results fast. It's a given because music is just another form of content Google is indexing as part of its universal search plan to organize the world's data online.

October 22, 2009

Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:38 AM/EST

Why Google Social Search Is Good and Bad for the Market

Google's entrance buoys the crowded market, lifting up the long tail of dozens of social search engines, from the fresh Aardvark to more established players Mahalo, ChaCha, Scour, Wink, etc. Or, it could crush them.

October 8, 2009

Thursday, October 08, 2009 8:21 AM/EST

Google Mobile Search Options, PDF Quick View in Search

Google Search Options for Apple's iPhone, Android and Palm WebOS smartphones lets users narrow searches by past day, week, year, or even in a specific date range. Google also added the ability for users to search for tax and other forms and documents in PDFs and view those in HTML by clicking a button.

October 5, 2009

Monday, October 05, 2009 12:36 PM/EST

Google May Be Baiting Microsoft Bing as It Opens Up on Search

Google basically gave BusinessWeek bureau chief Rob Hof the keys to its search kingdom at the GooglePlex for a series of interviews with the company's top search masterminds. Maybe Google is hyping its search a little more to bait Bing, effectively telling Microsoft: Come and get us, take your best shot, etc.

September 23, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:36 AM/EST

Google Sidewiki Is Knol, SearchWiki Compromise, Sans the Tedium

Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar launched from the Google Toolbar that lets users make comments on the content they stumble upon in Web searches. Having a commenting tool actionable from the highly-used Google toolbar might prove more useful for Google. The proof point for me is: Will I go back to it tomorrow? When I tested Knol and SearchWiki, I did not. Time will tell with Sidewiki if it has staying power.

September 14, 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009 9:48 AM/EST

How to Search Google in Near Real-Time

The blogosphere is abuzz this morning with the discovery of a neat little hack every user can do to get Google results up to the minute. How soon before Google moves this from a cheap hack to a part of Google search for good, and down to the real-time one second goodness?


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