Google has launched its new Realtime Search feature, which serves up real-time, live search results from a wide set of sources.
As world domination goes, this is almost as good as it gets for Googlem with the company currently boasting an incredible mobile search market share of 98.29%.
When it launched back in 2001, Google Images initially indexed around 250 million images, a figure that had risen to 1 billion by 2005, and now stands in excess of a colossal 10 billion images today – a veritable shedload of images in anyone’s picture book.
Google has released its second quarter 2010 earnings report and, put simply, they’re positively raking in the greenbacks.
Google are never one to miss out on an opportunity to knock out an amusing/interesting/entertaining logo for a notable occasion, and yesterday the site was honouring Independence Day in America with a special 4th of July graphic.
Google recently announced a spanking new feature that lets users add their own photo or image to the background of their Google.com homepage.
Google have announced the completion of their new web indexing system called Caffeine which they claim will provide “50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index.”
It’s the largest collection of web content Google has ever offered, with the company claiming that, “whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.”
Google has given its mighty calculators a bit of a spin and released a list of the top 1,000 websites on the planet.
Google has switched on a beta version of its SSL encrypted search service, which encrypts data sent between your PC and Google’s servers, making it just about impossible for sneaky third parties to pry on your search terms or results.
Excitingly billed as a “spring metamorphosis,” Google have unveiled a new look to their search pages.
This “metamorphosis” is apparently “responding to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search,” and now serves up search tools on the left hand navigation, backed by various layout tweaks and graphic refreshes throughout.
Microsoft has slipped out a new version of Bing for the iPhone and iPod touch, adding a number of stability fixes, new features and usability tweaks.
There’s already been a million downloads of the Bing app for iPhone, and Microsoft’s ‘Bing for Mobile’ dude Florian Voss invited users to submit their feedback for the latest version.
Microsoft’s onslaught to persuade us Brits to try out a different flavour of search to Google has kicked off, with the first TV commercial for Bing hitting goggleboxes across Blighty.
The advert – the first of the three – can be seen across a slew of commercial channels such as ITV, Channel 4, Five, Sky Media plus IDS digital channels including Bravo, Dave, GOLD, Living TV and Good Food.
Google has announced a new feature in search which it believes will make it easier for users to mark and rediscover their favourite web content.
The new feature lets punters mark any search result or map with a star – and this will then appear in a special list at the top of any future relevant search results.
The feature is currently being rolled out for all users over the forthcoming days, so expect to see it soon (it wasn’t appearing for us in the UK yet).
Google’s ever-grasping tentacles have reached out to ensnare Aardvark, a technology company that, “lets you quickly and easily tap into the knowledge and experience of your friends and extended network of contacts. Aardvark analyses questions to determine what they’re about and then matches each question to people with relevant knowledge and interests to give you an answer quickly.”
Set to air in the coveted advertising spot in the third quarter of the Superbowl in the US is a très romantique advert from Google which manages to play out an entire love story in their search box.
We’re impressed: it gets across Google’s strength as a search engine in a subtle and powerful way and does an excellent job of what ghastly marketing types would call “reinforcing brand values.”
Nice one Google!
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