Category: search

August 26, 2008

Google Adds Predictive Search Results to Google.com

Filed under: Review, search - 26 Aug 2008

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Not quite sure what you need to search for on Google? Maybe you can’t remember how to spell it. The online search giant has added …

August 25, 2008

No More Free Meals for Google Employees

Filed under: Review, search - 25 Aug 2008

When Google invited us to pop into its New York offices earlier in the year, we were a bit disappointed to find out that the frozen yogurt machine it …

August 7, 2008

Post DoubleClick, Google Ramps Up Ad Data Collection

Filed under: Review, search - 07 Aug 2008

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After all the back and forth over whether Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick would be anti-competitive or an invasion of our privacy, the search engine giant …

August 6, 2008

Do You Google? Study Finds Search Engine Use Up

Filed under: Review, search - 06 Aug 2008

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Good news for Google, Yahoo, MSN, and maybe even Cuil–search engine use is on the rise, according to a report from the Pew Internet …

Google Launches Insights for Search

Filed under: Review, search - 06 Aug 2008

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Advertisers don’t know enough about us, and Google wants to help.

The search engine giant on Wednesday announced the launch of Google Insights for Search, …

August 5, 2008

CraigsFindr.com Searches Multiple Craigslist Sites

Filed under: Review, cool_web_sites, search - 05 Aug 2008

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You’re looking for a particular item on Craigslist, but you’ve already turned up no results in your city. You can manually go from …

August 4, 2008

The Mystery of “Cuil,” Revealed

Filed under: Review, search - 04 Aug 2008

Cuil has cleared up the mystery of its name. No, it didn’t have anything to do with the French word for “testicle”, according to Vince Solitto, vice president of …

August 1, 2008

Yahoo! Adds Yelp, LinkedIn, Yahoo! Local to Default Search

Filed under: Review, search - 01 Aug 2008

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Yahoo! late last night incorporated Yelp, LinkedIn, and Yahoo! Local Search Monkey Apps into its default search results.

The Sunnyvale company opened on their …

July 31, 2008

Google Adds ‘Avoid Tolls’ Function to Maps

Filed under: Review, maps_gps, search - 31 Jul 2008

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Last weekend I had the pleasure of spending about $85 on gas during a road trip to upstate New York. Thankfully, the journey only included …

Cuil Can’t Take a Joke

Filed under: Review, search - 31 Jul 2008

Due primarily–if not entirely–to the fact that it was created by Google ex-pats, the launch of search engine Cuil dominated tech headlines all over the blogosphere earlier this week. …

July 28, 2008

Cuil: A Seach Engine to Rival Google

Filed under: Review, search - 28 Jul 2008

cuil-home_id.png Cuil isn’t quite a Google killer yet, but give it a while and it could find a sizable user base. Cuil (an …

July 24, 2008

Ballmer: Yahoo Merger is Dead, Dead, Dead

Filed under: Review, search - 24 Jul 2008

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A Yahoo! acquisition would have helped Microsoft’s bid to overtake Google in search, but any current merger plans are dead, according to Microsoft chief …

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