I have reviewed Google’s Search by Images yesterday and was impressed by the new search feature. The image recognition works extremely well in most cases. Search will still turn out blank occasionally but most of the time you get the information that you wanted to find. Today I’m going to look at different uses of [...]

Categories: Google, Search Engines

Searching by image is a new feature of Google Search that was introduced yesterday as well. It basically allows the web user to upload an image to Google to search for it on Google. The search will be on all Google properties, including Google Search and Google images. A search like this can come in [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Voice Search is the second new technology next to page prerendering that Google introduced exclusively for Chrome web browser users yesterday on Inside Search. Android smartphone users may already be aware of Voice Search, as it is available for their devices. The majority of desktop users on the other hand are new to the concept [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Search Engines

Google’s customizable start page iGoogle is nice and all, as it gives users options to create their own unique homepage on the Internet. It is a module driven system where users can add modules like news, weather reports or applications to their page. The layout is however less than optimal for low screen resolution systems [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Both Bing and Google are dead serious that search engine users want a search that is more social, that weaves recommendation’s, likes and personal messages into the results. This change is happening right now, as both Bing and Google are already adding social recommendations in their search results. The two search engines may promote results [...]

Categories: Search Engines

We know that Google is constantly running experiments on google.com. Those experiments are only visible to a subset of visitors to test them before they may go live for all users eventually. The majority of tests make small changes to the search page or result’s listing. Some users may not even notice that they are [...]

Categories: Google, Search Engines

You may know that I have switched by primary search engine from Google to Bing sometime last year. I was fed up with Google for several reasons, including their constant push of Google owned properties into the search engine results and the deteriorating quality of search. I suspected that Bing’s quality was not really better [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Many websites look up the IP address that you are connecting with, or other browser header information, to redirect you automatically to a language specific website. While those systems usually get it right, they are annoying for users who do not want to be redirected to a country specific domain name or different language version. [...]

Categories: Google

Google rolled out a new version of Google Image Search some time ago. The most prominent change is that all image results are now displayed on the same page, with new images being loaded as the user scrolls down. The number of image previews on a search result page has increased as well. This can [...]

Categories: Google