Tag Archives: search

Search : My Own Personalized, Social SEO?

Search : My Own Personalized, Social SEO?

These days my search results page has started to look a little different. I see links that friends have shared earlier. I see a lot of the sites and links I’ve been to earlier, sometimes in a different context. Briefly, … Read More »

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Google Goggles: Use Pictures to Search the Web

Once again Google is in news. Looks like this Internet giant company is obsessed with featuring new services and products. As you may have read by now, Google has come up with real time search. Not many know, in fact … Read More »

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Twitter homepage redesigned for search

Twitter homepage redesigned for search

Whoever thought and said that search is not the game of twitter needs to look at the new twitter homepage. Do go and have a look if

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Guruji launches Image Search – Few qns on long term game plan?

Guruji launches Image Search – Few qns on long term game plan?

Guruji has launched image search enabling users to search for image with touch of ‘Indian-ness’. ‘Selecting the right set of pictures and ordering them to satisfy the need on the user’s mind is a complex research problem.. Our image crawlers … Read More »

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Does Search solves more intent than navigational sites?

Does Search solves more intent than navigational sites?

[Guest post by Manas Garg. He puts forth an interesting viewpoint regarding search vs. navigation and whether search is able to answer most of user's intent. Do share your comments and if you want to submit a post, please use … Read More »

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Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist on Search

Hal Varian, Google's Chief Economist on Search

In his EconTalk podcast, Hal Varian, Chief Economist with Google speaks about Search amongst other things. ..search is about two things. Precision and Recall. He then defines precision as “off the number of documents retrieved by a search result, how … Read More »

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iCognue – AI based Search Engine from Sobha Renaissance’s IT arm

iCognue - AI based Search Engine from Sobha Renaissance's IT arm

Sobha Renaissance’s IT arm has launched iCognue, an AI based search engine that they claim transcends beyond keyword search, and results revolve around the larger context of the typed  keyword and not only around the keyword. Currently, the search is … Read More »

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Earn while you Search

Earn while you Search

What would make you switch from Google to another search engine? Better search results?..or how about being paid for using a search engine? The search engine SlashMySearch.com allows users to earn money for making SlashMySearch as their default search engine. … Read More »

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Search texts inside the video/audio

Search texts inside the video/audio

Ever wondered if you could actually search for words mentioned in an audio/video file? i.e. *Frankly dear! I don’t give a damn’ should take you to the ‘Gone with the wind’ video! Podzinger, an audio search engine has an appealing … Read More »