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Oct
15

Facebook Partners With Bing For Search Engine

Category: Social, Technology Tags: bing, facebook, google, microsoft, search, search engine, Search Engines, United States, Web search engine Leave a Comment

Facebook joins hands with Bing to make search results sound more personal.

Microsoft has joined hands with Facebook to provide users a personal touch while they access their search results on Microsoft’s search engine Bing. As part of the four-year alliance between the two companies, Bing search engine will show users which sites and products their Facebook friends like.

To be optional, the new feature dubbed “Liked Results” will allow users to go through information that has already been liked by their friends who have previously gone through the information. Thus now the things you search will come with a personal recommendation form your Facebook friends. In addition to this, the new feature will also help users search for friends on Facebook.

The new feature though is only rolled out to users in the United States.

‘Traditional Search Is Failing’ – Bing Director Stefan Weitz (blogoholic.in)

Oct
8

By pratyushkp

Google Instant Unveiled In India

Category: Social, Technology Tags: google, google chrome, google india, google instance, Google Search, search, Search box, Search Engines, Web search engine, Web search query Leave a Comment

Google’s latest innovation “Instant” has now reached Indian shores.

Google has not wasted any second to bring its “Instant” to Indian users. The latest innovation of Google “Instant” claims that it can save two to five seconds of a user’s time. The service displays search results continuously as the user keys in the search parameters along with auto-complete predictions, and scroll-to-search functionality.

Google already offers a feature that suggested popular search queries as a user typed a word in the search box, but the new feature actually delivers a complete page of search results as a search term is being typed. In addition to this Google has extended Instant to Google Books, videos, blogs and updates, and has launched keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the search results.

Sep
28

By pratyushkp

Happy Birthday For Google

Category: Social, Technology Tags: doodle, google, google india, Google logo, Les Paul, Pac-Man, search, Search Engines, Wayne Thiebaud Leave a Comment

Google celebrates its 12th birthday by featuring a doodle of a cake with a single lighted candle.

Worlds’ most popular search engine has turned 12.Users around the world were surprised to see a doodle of a cake with a single lighted candle on their Google homepage. The doodle is Google’s way of commemorating the website’s completion of 12 years. The birthday cake has Google written on it in red letters and the letter “l” is a candle on the cake.

The site engine that found its place in our hearts was first registered as a domain name by Page and Brin in the year 1997.“Googol,” is a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.

The doodle that is far more simplistic than Google’s previous doodles, like that of Packman or buckyball, is a painting which has been reproduced by permission of VAGA, Visual Artists and Galleries Association is a work by artist Wayne Thiebaud, who is known for his association with the Pop Art movement, and his interest in painting everyday, ordinary objects which includes many cakes.

Playable & Recordable Google Doodle Honors Guitar Great Les Paul (blogoholic.in)

Sep
16

By pratyushkp

Now Graph Your Google Activities

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Bill Zeller, facebook, gmail, google, google india, Graph (mathematics), Princeton University, Search Engines, Searching Leave a Comment

Google has unveiled a new application “Graph Your Inbox” that presents a visual graph of your e-mail activities on Google.

Designed by Bill Zeller, a Ph.D at Princeton University, “Graph Your Inbox” a Google Chrome extension will allow users to graph Gmail activity over time. The application provides the same search functionality used by Gmail, but instead of a list of messages Google will show you a graph of your email trends over time.Users can use it to visualize one communication with friends, your Facebook activity, when you purchased items on Amazon or how often you use certain words or phrases in the form of a graph. In this way one can keep a account of their activities through this tool.

Users can download and install the “Graph Your Inbox” for free and it doesn’t access any of your private data nor does it store passwords. And if you get bored you also have an option to disable it afterwards.

Sep
13

By pratyushkp

Google Searches Before You Type

Category: Social, Technology Tags: google, google chrome, google india, Google Instant, Google Search, Marissa Mayer, search, Search Engines, Web search engine Leave a Comment

Google will now suggest results even before you finish typing the search item

Search engine Google will now provide and display to users results from the moment they start typing.

The product, dubbed “Instant”, which will only be available for users logged into Google, will move instantly to a page of results that is updated as each letter is typed by users. According to Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search and user experience, a typical searcher spends nine seconds entering a query, and 15 seconds searching for answers. Google hopes to shave two to five seconds per search using Google Instant.

“Google Instant gets queries and gives you search results as you type and streams those results to your computer,” marrisa said while launching their new product

She also added ” We are predicting what query you are likely to make and giving you results for that. There is actually a psychic element to it,”

Sep
3

By pratyushkp

Google To Let Kids Doodle Dreams On India

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Children's Day, Dennis Hwang, doodle, google, google doodle, google india, Google logo, india, search, Search Engines Leave a Comment

As part of children’s day celebrations Google is encouraging kids to doodle on their dreams for India.

Online search engine, Google has announced a doodle competition coinciding with the children’s day celebrations in India. The event which will be held on November 14th, childrens day, will encourage students from all over India to doodle based on the theme ‘My dream for India’.

Open to children aged between Five-Sixteen, the young participants will have to imagine what India would be like in two decades from now and capture those images in color and paper. The best doodle will be featured on Google and the star Doodler will receive a technology starter package including a laptop, a year’s Internet connection and a Rs 2,000,00 technology grant for the school that he or she will represent,

The participants will be clubbed in three different categories – 1st to 3rd Standard, 4th to 6th Standard and 7th to 10th Standard. JJ School of Arts will select the top 200 entries from each category which will be reviewed by a panel of judges. The judges will then shortlist 15 doodles from each category, bringing it down to a total of 45 final Doodles.

All the final entries will be exhibited for public voting and based on the number of votes, one winner from each category will be selected. Each of these winners will receive a laptop. Dennis Hwang, the original Google Doodler, will then choose the final winning Doodle from the total 45 finalists.

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