Your Status Will Now Be Binged: Microsoft to Tie Up With Facebook and Twitter to Index Status Updates

by | posted: October 21, 2009
350 million users and billions of real time updates, that’s what Microsoft is looking to tap into through deals with Facebook and Twitter. According to All Things Digital, Microsoft will announce...
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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 Caffeine – Google Search Improved

by | posted: August 14, 2009
For quite some time, the net was ablaze with how Bing was trying to one-up Google. Then there was Wolfram and other “decision engines”, then there was Collecta and a huge list of other real-time...
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Flickr Redesigns Search: Opens Potential For More Improve Member Activity

by | posted: August 6, 2009
Flickr announced a redesign of their search page a couple of days back. From first looks the new design seems to present Flickr as the social site that it actually is than just a repository of snaps. It...
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Google Reader adds Like, Search and Follow features – Social Media Obsession?

by | posted: July 17, 2009
Google has been revamping a lot of its products lately. We recently covered Google Finance’s new look and features here. But Google seems determined to stay in the news. From removing the beta tag...
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Stuff you can do with Twitter: A WATBlog Super List

by | posted: June 8, 2009
Twitter is becoming one of the most important platforms to share information quickly and easily over the web. Using the Twitter API, developers have found a lot of innovative ways to keep the users...
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Yahoo Introduces Creative Commons In Image Search

by | posted: May 27, 2009
Yahoo! Image Search is launching a Creative Commons license filter to find images that are available for reuse officially. When you use Yahoo! Image Search, you’ll now see a checkbox for Creative Commons...
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Twitter’s New Advanced Search System Gives Everything That I Ever Needed – Well Almost

by | posted: May 7, 2009
I just spent the half hour that just went by wondering if this is an exclusive piece of news – but no luck. Anyway, the news itself is that Twitter now has a more powerful and better advanced search...
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The Game of Search – Changing Rules and Leadership in the Cacophony of Web Search

by | posted: March 7, 2009
Search has been dominant enough on the web to create some of the biggest names in the Industry. And there is no denying who the most dominant name in the field. Google has now gone on to dominate other...
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Google’s Mobile Search, Powered by “My Location” – The Idea, Applications & Limitations

by | posted: September 12, 2008
  It’s been a while since big-wig search engines like Yahoo, Google and MSN Live had launched their local search engines but how many times have you ever used it to find a certain eatery joint or...
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After Cuil, Wikia Search Now to Take on Google

by | posted: August 18, 2008
Google is popular, no doubt. However, apparently, Google’s popularity is causing other sites to start their engines in full swing, in their attempts to take over the search engine giant. Last...
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How Google Always Gets it Right

by | posted: August 13, 2008
Google is, undoubtedly, the ‘Giant’ of the World Wide Web. What originally began as a research project back in 1996 by two Ph.D. students has now grown into a full-grown enterprise. Who’d...
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Commercial Viability of Semantic Web May be Sooner Than You Think

by | posted: August 13, 2008
If John Davies, the Head of Next Generation Web Research at BT, is to be believed, Semantic Web may be commercially viable sooner than you think. Does this mean that the days of Web 2.0 and the community...
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pepperjamMobile powered by M3 Mobile – A Joint Venture for One-Stop Internet and Mobile Marketing Solutions

by | posted: August 5, 2008
      In an effort to consolidate their offerings of search engine marketing into a more robust company, the internet and affiliate marketing agency, PepperJam, and a full service mobile...
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Yahoo’s BOSS lets you build your own search website

by | posted: July 10, 2008
Let’s face it. No matter how hard Yahoo! tries, it is not surpassing Google anytime soon when it comes to search. Even though Yahoo still holds the number two position, just ahead of Microsoft, it...
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Microsoft buys Powerset, gains advantage in the linguistic search market

by | posted: July 4, 2008
        Microsoft seems to have become even more aggressive in their efforts to match up with Google.   After having bought Multimap, a web mapping company not so long ago, and...
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