Tag: SEARCH-ENGINES

So Microsoft has partnered with Yahoo!, and Bing will now provide the heavy lifting when it comes to search. When I read the news this morning, I immediately thought of all the Yahoo bloatware I've seen over the years on certain OEM systems - I won't single out anyone like HP for this. Live (and now Bing) would have been the default search engine on all these systems, were it not for the Yahoo! ...

Microsoft has been working on a new search engine, code-named Kumo, for months. According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft will finally show the search engine to the public at the D: All Things Digital conference next week. As far as we can tell from early screenshots, Kumo features a clean, streamlined look with filters for search results in the left-hand navigation. You can sort search ...

Sure, Google, Yahoo!, and other mainstream search engines are great if you actually want to get quick and accurate search results. But we're suckers for new approaches to old problems, like trying to find what you're looking for on the internet. Even if they're a bit rough around the edges. Galaxy It certainly fits the bill. While most search engines plot your results in a list that runs ...

Sure, Google and other search engines are great if you're looking for information about most things. But sometimes you've got a question that's so obscure that it's nearly impossible to find a good answer on Google. Or your search might be so general that you actually get too many results to make sense of them all. Enter Can't Find On Google. At its most basic level, this is a website where you ...

StumbleUpon is moving beyond the browser toolbar. The social ranking service lets users give web sites a thumbs up or down, write reviews, and find random popular websites by clicking a "Stumble!" button. Now StumbleUpon is launching a SearchReviews feature that will allow users to see StumbleUpon member reviews next to search results from Google, Yahoo!, Ask, Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. If ...

With Google turning 9 today and still being the search engine for most everyone on the planet, it's only natural the other big dogs are going to try to bump them off and take-over. The newest bid in this effort is Microsoft and the overhaul of their Live Search site, www.live.com. Live is hyping its search results as a "blended search" where Microsoft attempts to anticipate what its users want. ...