search engine
Microsoft Hopes to Capture a Big Part of Chinese Search Market
The Chinese search market is very productive with a value of $293 million in Q3 2009. Microsoft is hoping to intensify the popularity of its Bing search engine in China. The software giant announced that China is its chief strategic market for search.
China is such a significant market to search firms as it is home to the world’s leading internet population with more than 350 million users. Bing has been available in China as a beta product for sometime now, but has not made a considerable impact in the market so far.
Extensions in Google Chrome :
Firefox has long been greater to Google Chrome,for most part because of Firefox add-ons. Now since the Google Chrome Extensionsare available here at https://chrome.google.com/extensions, many people might prefer to switch over to Google.
Although there are just around 500 Google extensions, in comparison to thousands of add-ons for Firefox, several best and most constructive Firefox add-ons are already available as Google extensions, or their capabilities are duplicated by a Chrome extension.
For those interested mainly in speed, the additions of extensions to Chrome are reason enough to make the change from Firefox. For many the ultimate turning point would be extensions available for Chrome, while many are sure to stick to Firefox till they find each and every of their extensions available for Chrome.
Google Wave,a Tool for Effective Communication
In fact,Google Wave seems to be one of those tools that’s extremely difficult to explain to those who haven’t started using it. One way to think of it is as a collection of threaded e-mail conversations and instantaneous messaging. Rich content, together with Google maps, interactive polling, videos and much more, can be embedded in conversations (known as waves). Additionally, the rich content is live and interactive. As an example,if you embed a Google map, all members in the conversation can utilize it as if they were on the Google Maps site.All the above features makes for a kind of profound collaboration that’s impossible with more conventional means of Internet communication. Theoretically, Google Wave can help groups distribute information, take decisions and actions faster.In practice,however, it’s difficult to predict the future of Google Wave, as most people still prefer to use the traditional e-mail.
Presently,Google Wave is still in a fairly strongly controlled, invitation-only beta. Considering that it’s free, however, when it becomes public, or if you’re fortunate enough to obtain an invite, it’s definitely worth to test it out, just for the “coolness” factor.For further details, check wave.google.com
Aardvark Emerges as a ‘Social Search Engine’
This is how aardvark functions.Instead of looking at Web pages to search answers to obtain queries, Aardvark’s service tracks a person’s network of social contacts. Ask Aardvark for any kind of question ranging from restaurant recommendations to home enhancement tips, and the service will pass on the question to Facebook and Twitter friends who have recognized themselves as “experts” on a variety of topics.
The aardvark service, which has obtained praise from the New York Times’ David Pogue and other tech bloggers, was started as a beta version earlier this year but accessing Aardvark required utilizing instant messaging software or an iPhone app.
Recently, the company put the search box directly on a website – vark.com – enabling it to become more reachable for a wide range of people.
Similar to the so-called real time search engines popularized by Twitter, Collecta and OneRiot, though presently Aardvark depicts a small segment ,it might be quite dangerous for Google in future . Most of the content that transmits through these new types of search services is not essentially reachable by Google’s search engine.Google is making its efforts to tackle the situation by licensing the Twitter data feed. As more innovative forms of search evolve,Google will find itself having more such talks.
Zook.in aims to provide local and media search services
Zook.in is launching at one go in India and abroad, as it believes that to succeed as a viable business proposition, it has to scale quickly to millions of users.Local searches and searches for media are key search categories for mobile phone users, Sethi said.
While mobile phone users can also search for other general information on the Zook.in web site, the results displayed on its “Web snippets” section will be of a similar quality to those offered by the back-end mainstream search engines.On local searches, the site returns data such as the address and telephone numbers of hotels, restaurants, government offices, consulates, malls, hospitals, and other key places. Users can click on the telephone numbers provided, and dial out immediately.
source:pcworld.com
Google offers speedy page browsing with Fast Flip
Fast flip is provided with 4 rows of content , “Sections”, “Sources “, “Popular “, “Topics “.Each of these sections are further divided into a tabular format.Clicking on any of the tabs will produce the relevant results.
We selected the Sci/Tech option:
If you click on an interesting item you found on the list,you will be directed to a large image ,with a navigation device on the side to conveniently scroll either to the next or previous article.We clicked the Tech Crunch News, and we were directed to the following screen.
Google Fast Flip will bring about revenue for publishers and reproduces the magazine reading experience online.Revenue collected from the ads(see picture) appearing alongside the article will be split between Google and the relevant publisher, with content providers taking the major part of the revenue.
Josh Cohen, a business product manager at Google, stated that Fast Flip, will collect content from numerous US websites, newspapers and magazines that have opted in to the service, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Newsweek. Cohen mentioned that this latest news website was one of numerous different experiments Google was working on with publishers to increase the online audience, engage readers more deeply, and make more money for all parties.
Google Fast Flip can be accessed at http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
Umibozu-The Meta Search Engine
Will this search engine umibuzo,with the caption “Change the world” on their page, bring about a major change?
For the moment,this caption might be best to describe them, from the following features
1.The results of the search engine are obtained by simultaneously crawling Google ,Yahoo and Bing.Also there are 3 options to display the results,’Matrix’ ,’User’ and ‘Top’.We searched for the word seo and obtained the following results:
Matrix format:
User format:
Top format:
2. The Umibuzo.net is not only a search engine but also can be used as a Bookmarking site. It offers a double advantage by by offering bookmarking features and search engine results. Bookmarking feature can be utilized by creating an account in this site.
3.Additionally once you type a keyword,along with the results of the search engine ,the link “Donate to UNICEF now!” is displayed,enabling users to make contributions to .Well,looks like they are trying to bring about a change on charitable grounds too.
4.Also the recent keywords searched are displayed on the home page of this site.
5.Additionally there are options to add your websites and to access your settings by signing into this site.
For those who like us are amused by the name Umibozu,here is a history behind the name.Umibozu in Japanese means sea bonze(bonze refers to the Chinese or Japanese Buddhist monk). It might have aquired the name bonze,as Umibozus like the Buddhist monks are said to have large ,round heads in resemblance to the shaven heads of Buddhist monks.In Japanese folklore, umibozus are believed to live in the oceans and if anyone in a ship takes the bold step to speak to it, it would capsize the ship.
Bing Search Market Increases,Google And Yahoo Decline
Google Caffeine-The new version of Google Search Engine
The Search engine giant Google has released the developer version of its new upgraded version,which is coded as Caffeine-an interesting name,though ! Most people would have the same opinion that a little jerk of caffeine is just what the body requires in order to kick into high gear and begin moving more rapidly in the morning. It appears that, caffeine can have the same consequence on Google Incorporations search engine. Google themselves have stated this improvement as the “next-generation architecture”.Speed: How rapidly can the fresh search engine load results?
Accuracy: Which set of results matches the search term?
Temporal Relevancy: Is the version of search engine good at capturing breaking news?
Index Size: Is it really all-inclusive than the previous version of Google?
Once Microsoft launched Bing ,the whole world was wondering how good this will be and if it can contend against Googles search technology. Bing proved that it is a very good search engine, and after that everybody was wondering what will Google do in order to overpower Microsoft’s
new search engine.Probably caffeine is the answer for the doubt raised in people’s minds.
Tests so far have revealed that the latest version of Google is twice faster than the the previous Google and it also displays higher search results (depending on queries).At the moment it looks like Caffeine is superior than the old Google, but we need to wait for it to be released.
The development version is available at www2.sandbox.google.com
A new look for Yahoo Home Page
Yahoo ,which occupies the second place in the search engine industry has decided to finally revamp its home page.Presently Google occupies around 65% of the market share among search engines followed by Yahoo which occupies 19.65 of the share.
Yahoo has disclosed its new hompage look in US,though the rest of the world will see this only later this week.The revamped page will have several kinds of applications like Facebook,ebay including outside content which the net users can utilise.
The senior vice President for consumer experience Tapan Bhat stated that the main objective of this change is to create an individually germane experience for every net user