Google +1 Button Rolling Out Today To Take On Facebook Like

by | posted: March 31, 2011
Google’s answer to the Facebook “Like” button is finally here — the “+1″ button. Although the product lacks the ability to share information like Facebook or even Twitter...
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Google Leads The Search Market While Bing Grows And Yahoo Falls

by | posted: January 19, 2011
Although Facebook has dethroned Google as the top website of 2010, Google can proudly claim that it is the largest search engine that exists today. No wonder the term “search it” has been replaced...
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Google – Groupon Deal Is Off!!

by | posted: December 4, 2010
The much rumored Google-Groupon deal is finally off after the Chicago-based Groupon turned down the acquisition offer from Google. The exact reasons for this rejection are not yet clear but according to...
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Google Announces Google Instant – Search As You Type

by | posted: September 9, 2010
Google seems to be looking at bringing you your search results even quicker. Infact they have launched a product called Google Instant that brings you search results as you type. Google infact believes...
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Jobs, Travel, Mobile Phones Top Keywords on Yahoo! Search – Is There a Yahoo Anymore?

by | posted: August 26, 2010
Jobs, Mobiles and Travel have become the metaphorical roti, kapda and makaan (or bijli, sadak and pani) of Yahoo Search in India. A press release by the company on Yahoo’s “Top 10 Most Popular...
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Google Revamps Search Results Look – A Move To Increase Discoverability?

by | posted: May 10, 2010
Google the search giant is always looking to better its search experience as that still remains its flagship product. So last week google revamped the way the search results appear after one searches for...
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Google v/s Indian Authors – The Story So Far

by | posted: February 3, 2010
The huge Google Books fiasco began in 2004, when Google ambitious tried to recreate a digital Library of Alexandria. The aim, to scan and place on the Internet, every book that they could have access to,...
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Social Search Now Live To Everyone On Google

by | posted: February 1, 2010
In October last year Google’s Marissa Mayer announced that Social Search graduated from Google Labs. Until last week, however, it was an opt in feature. But now anyone who searches on www.google.com...
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Google Music Service to Launch (Apparently) – Impact on India?

by | posted: October 23, 2009
The tech world is all set to get a make-over. We just covered Bing announcing that they’ll be indexing Twitter and Facebook, with Google  hurriedly yelling, Me Too! Then Google kicked it up a notch...
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Google Does A Me Too – Announces Inclusion Of Twitter Updates In Search

by | posted: October 22, 2009
Just a few hours ago we reported that Microsoft is soon to announce a deal with both Facebook and twitter to include their search updates within search results for Bing. It seems google has followed the...
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Google Experiments With Social Search – Adds Facebook, LinkedIn Info In Search Results

by | posted: October 8, 2009
Google seems to be on a rollout as it has been been launching steady updates to its search engine. It has been trying to make search results more user friendly at the same time giving more filtering...
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New Google Search Options! Do You Like It?

by | posted: October 6, 2009
Let’s look at Google news recently. And specific to search. From playing around with the core architecture of their engine, to including Google Jump To features to adding Hottest Trends, Google’s...
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Google’s New Jump Feature – Find What You’re Looking For

by | posted: September 28, 2009
Google’s back with more improvements. Off late, Google’s been making the news on a regular basis. Check out all the WATBlog Google stories here. However, their focus on social media notwithstanding,...
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Google Likes It Bi(n)g: Increases Search Box Size, Creates More News and Blog Posts To Crawl

by | posted: September 10, 2009
Last night I changed a the height of a content box in one of our websites and even added a new page but nobody noticed. Google’s Marissa Mayer who is the VP for Search Products & User Experience...
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Google Wins Case To Patent Homepage Design – What Was The Big Deal About The Page?

by | posted: September 4, 2009
If you thought you can kick start your HTML lessons by copying Google’s simple homepage on your website, beware that your website could be sued! As ridiculous as it sounds, Google has won a five...
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7 Reasons Why You Should Fear Google

by | posted: May 21, 2009
Google has over the years diversified from being a just a search engine to a digital media products company. Also over the years the importance of search and its use as a window to the world has increased...
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