By JortK on March 12, 2010
If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now. Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based phones, ousting Google Search and Maps from the scene. Now this isn’t meanness on Motorola’s part although Reuters notes that this move could have something to [...]
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By JortK on March 9, 2010
The Oscars®: glitz, glamor, gossip, gold statuettes, much fanfare — and for many fans, Google search is increasingly a part of watching this live TV experience. Before and during the Academy Awards® broadcast in the U.S., we saw related queries on Google dominating the hot searches list on Google Trends. People searched for the TV [...]
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By JortK on March 8, 2010
Stars in search Every day, we work to improve the four key components of search: comprehensiveness, latency, user experience and relevance. Of these, relevance is dramatically enhanced by more personalized results. This week, we announced a new feature that makes it much easier to mark and rediscover your favorite content. Stars in search are just [...]
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By JortK on March 5, 2010
We’ve long believed that personalization makes search more relevant and fun. For nearly five years, we’ve been tailoring results with personalized search. Today we’re announcing a new feature in search that makes it easier for you to mark and rediscover your favorite web content — stars. With stars, you can simply click the star marker [...]
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By JortK on March 3, 2010
During the past two weeks, athletes from around the world competed at the Games in Vancouver. While these thousands strove for gold, millions around the world searched for 2010 Winter Olympics, 밴쿠버 동계올림픽 (Korean for “Vancouver Winter Olympics”), and Juegos Olimpicos de Invierno 2010 (Spanish for “2010 Olympic Winter Games”) using Google search. Now that [...]
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By JortK on March 1, 2010
Location has become an important part of the way we search. If you’re a foodie looking for restaurant details, food blogs or the closest farmer’s market, location can be vital to helping you find the right information. Starting today, we’ve added the ability to refine your searches with the “Nearby” tool in the Search Options panel. [...]
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By JortK on March 1, 2010
Refine your searches by location Location can tremendously aid the way you search, so we were pleased to add the ability to refine your searches by location to the Search Options panel. Say you’re big on the outdoors and want to find bike rental information, bicycling blogs or the closest sporting goods store. There’s a good [...]
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By JortK on February 22, 2010
This week, real-time search took center stage, along with a surging interest in the Winter Games in Vancouver. Real-time search in Russia and Japan Since the release of real-time search in December, we’ve seen that finding real-time content — often the only source of online information at the time — can be quite profound. For [...]
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By JortK on February 15, 2010
From enhancements in real-time search to Vancouver happenings at your fingertips, this week included a number of exciting search launches: Winter Games info in search results As the 2010 Winter Games kick off, we’ve made it easy for you to follow all of the action in Vancouver. Now, when you search for the latest results [...]
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By JortK on February 8, 2010
You might not know this, but there’s a hidden Labs widget in Gmail that lets you perform Google searches without leaving your e-mail interface. The news today is that it just got a whole slew of useful new features. Many Google() employees get to spend 20% of their time brainstorming and executing their own personal [...]
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