Archive for the 'Search Engines' Category


09Apr

Google Adds Color Filter to Image Search

Google reviews has added a seemingly small but quite important option to its image search interface: color filter. It’s not yet enabled for everyone, but if it is, you’ll find it after you do an image search, right next to the “All Content” dropdown box. This option was actually there before, but you had to [...]

26Mar

Google Goes (Slightly) Semantic with Tweaks to Search Results

Google reviews has introduced two changes to its most important product, Search. It now recognizes longer queries and gives you longer description snippets as results. The other change is much more important since it points to Google making use of certain semantic web technologies. Related searches – the terms associated to your query which are [...]

26Nov

Google Maps Gets Its Own Version of Clippy

Google Maps has just launched a number of updates that make Street View much more prominent. Now, whenever you’re viewing a map where there is Street View imagery available, you’ll be able to drag “Pegman” from the view slider to the street where you’d like to see a picture. When you’re using Pegman to navigate [...]

18Nov

Google Analytics for Flash: Welcome to the Engagement Era

The explosion of Flash content like widgets has created several complex problems, like how to index it in search engines, how to make it work on mobile, and how to track it. The latter is being addressed today at Adobe Max, where Google is announcing Analytics Tracking for Flash, which will let publishers track metrics [...]

23Oct

Spffy.com: Search Visual Contents

The Spffy website stands as a search engine that enables the user to look up photographs and video files from a wide-ranging collection of sources. The searches that can be conducted are capable of taking into account a plethora of considerations and refinement tags. For instance, when looking up stock photos it is possible to [...]

03Oct

Microsoft air miles plan to attack Google

Microsoft unveiled the latest in a series of enticements to attract more internet users to its search engine, as it announced an air miles-style promotion in the US. In spite of winning over some users in the short term, similar attempts in recent months have not been able to halt a longer-term slide that has [...]

02Oct

Google Blogsearch Relaunches as Techmeme Killer, Across 11 Categories

In its first major upgrade ever, Google Blogsearch just relaunched and looks radically different. Instead of the blank page look of Google.com, Blogsearch now looks like Google News (but uglier) – with the hottest topics from the blogosphere aggregated on the front page. Readers can drill down in 11 different categories, from technology, business, sports [...]

30Sep

Where Do You Search for Stock Photography Images?

When you need to search for an image, where do you turn first? Most of you will probably answer that you use Google Image search. Some of you might check Flickr, or maybe even other means. Why not use a website that allows you to search several different places – all at once? Cyclops allows [...]

24Sep

So, What Was Google Up To in the Past 10 Years?

The best way to have people obsessing about your birthday is to never tell anyone the exact date. That’s what Google’s been doing; we pretty much know that big G’s 10th anniversary is in September, but the exact time is unknown. And, while some have written about it almost a month ago, only now Google [...]

24Sep

Web Search 101 for Dummies – New Common Craft Video

You probably know about all the web search tricks mentioned in this latest screencast video from Common Craft but it’s still a worthwhile watch because of their ‘very’ creative approach: Read on Digital Inspiration