Search Engines Increasingly Becoming Part of Modern Day Learning Process

University Park, PA (AHN) - According to Penn State researchers search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process. The researchers seeking to discover the cognitive processes ... continue

Twitter Lists and Real Time Search deals – The Big Picture

I've spent the past few hours searching around the tech blogs, SEO blogs, forums and Twitter but haven't been able to find anyone who has made the connection between the recent Twitter Lists feature and the Twitter ... continue

Goby is a new search engine, for finding “stuff to do”

A new search engine quietly joined the fray in another attempt to slice and dice search results in a way you didn't know you needed. This year saw the launches of engines like Wolfram Alpha, Google Squared and ... continue

Microsoft’s ‘Bing’ Is Anything But Bling As Marketshare Keeps Slipping

Two new surveys looking at Internet search engines show Microsoft's massive effort to rebrand and relaunch its 'Bing' portal is facing some growing pains. September's poll from NetApplications found Bing fell to just 3.39 percent of the global ... continue

Revolutionary search engine #2394: Hunch

From a Flickr founder, new search engine Hunch is out of private beta today. So if you're Binged out, you've been Google Squared and got your kosher-search on, you might need a bit of a helping hand with ... continue

From the “if it ain’t broke” files: Google Squared

Met with much head scratching, search engine king Google released a new and perplexing search tool today called Google Squared. Designed- sort of, I suppose- to cut down on users having to perform multiple searches of different type ... continue

Google Tweaking Its Search Results Pages

Google is making some changes to its search results pages. The G-Team announced two sets of tweaks this morning: expanded "related searches" lists and longer search result descriptions. Associated Search The first change is designed to provide better "related ... continue

Should Original Content Providers Get Higher Google Priority?

An interesting debate is brewing around Google's mystery-shrouded page-ranking system. Some big name media companies are lobbying for Google to give them increased weight in search results over blogs and other Web sites sourcing their news, AdvertisingAge ... continue

Google Gains Another Winning Month

Google's got another strong month under its belt in terms of web traffic. Media measuring company HitWise released its May data this morning. The researcher found Google took a full 68 percent of all U.S. ... continue

“Democratic” Search Engine Unveils Improvements

A newly improved search engine aims to redefine the way we think about rank by putting power into the users' hands. Wikia Search is relaunching with several new features today. As the name might suggest, the utility ... continue