Searching for gold during the Games From The Google Official Blog - During the past two weeks, athletes from around the world competed at the Games in Vancouver. While these thousands strove for gold, millions around the world searched for 2010 Winter Olympics, 밴 쿠버 동계올림픽 (Korean for “Vancouver Winter Olympics”), and Juegos Olimpicos de Invierno 2010 (Spanish for “2010 Olympic Winter Games”)...

Two new features enhance search beyond the results page From the Google official blog – On Monday, when Amit Singhal introduced Google real-time search, he talked about bringing you information at the speed of light. But speed isn’t just about the time it takes the results to load, or even the time it takes us to index new information — it’s about the time it takes to get you the information you’re looking...

Faster apps for a faster web: introducing Speed Tracer From the Google Official Blog - Do you ever wonder what’s going on inside the browser when a webpage doesn’t load or respond as quickly as it should? Many developers do, especially when trying to build powerful web applications for their users. But up until now, it’s been difficult for developers to identify problems in a slow-to-respond application. So, tonight at...

Relevance meets the real-time web Google has launched Real time web search Google says — Our real-time search enables you to discover breaking news the moment it’s happening, even if it’s not the popular news of the day, and even if you didn’t know about it beforehand. For example, in the screen shot, the big story was about GM’s stabilizing car sales, which shows under “News results.” Nonetheless,...

Show me the pictures: better format for image results I love when I get images back in my Google search results. There’s no better way to quickly understand the difference between an ocelot and a clouded leopard. But sometimes I want to see more images to really make sure I’ve identified the right jungle cat. Over the next twenty-four hours we’re rolling out a new format for image universal results. When we’re...

Michael Jackson is the Top Keywords for search in Bing on 2009 Bing has released its top trending topics for 2009.  ”Michael Jackson” was the number most search keywords. Bing Said on Blog that —- Cue Music. Awwww, 2009. It was a year of UFO shaped dirigibles, mom jeans on pop stars, real housewives, a new president, and a new decision engine. Oh and there may have been something about Vampires too, we weren’t really paying...

People Visited Amazon most on Black Friday People do search mostly in Amazon on Black Friday, according to Experian Hitwise data it was none other than Amazon – their second in a row. As  this year’s Black Friday traffic to retail websites went up by 9% compared to 2008, Amazon received 13.55% of U.S. visits among the top 500 Retail Websites monitored by Hitwise.  Walmart followed with 11.8% of all visits, followed by Target.com...

Lock the Safe search Google has developed SafeSearch, a feature that lets you filter sexually explicit web sites and images from your search results. While no filter is 100% accurate, Safe Search helps you avoid content you may prefer not to see or would rather your children did not stumble across. We think it works pretty well, but we’re always looking for ways to improve the feature. Google says – Today we’re launching...