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Google v/s Indian Authors – The Story So Far
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, create a huge repository of books and printed material, that could be scanned and searched for from anywhere across [...]
Social Search Now Live To Everyone On Google
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 (US) will be able to see Social Search results.
For the uninformed, Social Search means that any person searching the web will also be [...]
Google Music Service to Launch (Apparently) – Impact on India?
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 by announcing social search. Google’s been making a LOT of changes to its search interface (Our take on most of [...]
Google Does A Me Too – Announces Inclusion Of Twitter Updates In Search
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 move in just a matter of hours and Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience has [...]
Google Experiments With Social Search – Adds Facebook, LinkedIn Info In Search Results
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 options to its searchers.
We recently spotted social media info in Google search results embedded with special formatting. The results are visible only on [...]
New Google Search Options! Do You Like It?
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 sure focusing on the one thing that made them famous – their search. Google summarizes all their current improvements here.
Google Blog recently reported some more changes. How many [...]
Google’s New Jump Feature – Find What You’re Looking For
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, the whole thing about Google being a Search Engine is disappearing. They recently tried reworking their infrastructure withCaffeine. But if you look at why Google’s [...]
Google Likes It Bi(n)g: Increases Search Box Size, Creates More News and Blog Posts To Crawl
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 there posted on the Google blog that they have changed the size of Google’s search box on the home and results page and it lands on Techmeme. A lot of people are downright confused and to an extent agitated why this piece of news should get so much attention. Though there are quite a few voices who consider it important though for no particular reason other than the fact that Google is doing it.
Google Wins Case To Patent Homepage Design – What Was The Big Deal About The Page?
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 and a half year battle to patent its simple and elegant looking homepage.
Why would Google do such a thing? That [...]
7 Reasons Why You Should Fear Google
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 incredibly. So much so that people instead of giving their business cards say “just google me!”.
The dominant [...]
Google Profiles Now In Google Search Results – Google Yourself To See!
There’s been a growing user demand for having some control over what people find when people search for a name on Google. Giving people some mechanism of controlling it is meeting a big piece of consumer demand. Keeping up with its recent updates and new features, Google has rolled out a new feature which lets [...]
Don’t Trust Alexa? Try Google Trends for Website Traffic..
Besides for alexa there have been compete.com for US centric traffic and trafficestimate.com as well but none of those two were as popular as alexa for India. But now things are abouto change as Google which always had the Google analytics code for Webmasters to show the trends for website traffic as well in terms of unique visitors. Im not sure how google computes these google trends for websites but its very possible that it uses one or more of its products for examples these statistics could be dependant on a lot of sources right from the google toolbar to google search traffic to google analytics to google adsense as well for the sites which have adsense installed.
Google Trends Upgrades – Shows Point Scale For Keyword Comparison
Google trends has upgraded its algorithm to show a scale which doesn’t reflect a search volume but can be used for comparing two keywords against each other to understand how popular one keyword is to another. Google trends is a great tool for anyone who is looking at search engine traffic whether through the use [...]
WATSearch – The World’s First Social Search Engine Raises 3 Million in Funding!
Yes WATBlog is proud to announce the launch of WATSearch – The World’s first social search engine. Its taken us 6 months of hardwork. Also we are proud to announce that this venture is now backed by 3 Venture Capitalists who have invested 3 million dollars.
As you can see above WATSearch tracks your existence through social media and gives you a social score as to where you stand in the social media sphere.
Would like to give credit to the team: Rajiv Dingra Founder & CEO WATSearch, Rupesh Mandal Chief Innovation Officer & Ankit Saxena Chief Technology Officer.
Google Launches Search For Windows Mobile
Google has launched a plugin which enables Google search on the Windows Mobile Phone. A few weeks ago they had launched a similar plug-in for Symbian devices.
The plugin effectively puts a Google search shortcut onto the phone’s home screen. This shortcut basically enables you to search the web right from your phone screen thereby reducing [...]