Windows users are familiar with the not so perfect search utility in XP. Now with Windows 7 we have an ideal form of searching ability with Advanced Query Syntax (AQS). These are advanced operators that, when used correctly, make file searches easily on target. Windows 7 utilizes an Advanced Search option that can be used [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Google launched a new search engine algorithm earlier this year that they internally called the Panda update. The idea behind Panda was to introduce a quality variable into the ranking equation. Sites with good quality contents would see an increase, sites with low level quality or article farms would see a decrease. That worked so-so [...]

Categories: Web Development

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

We all have our favorite search engine that we use predominantly, and an assortment of secondary specialized search engines for specific tasks. A common example are general web searches on search engines such as Google Search, Bing or Yahoo, and shopping related searches on Amazon, eBay and other shopping sites. There is however a gap [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Instant search results, results that appear before the search engine visitor even started typing, appear to be a relatively new trend that is pushed by search engine companies such as Google, Yahoo or Microsoft. Google introduced its Google Instant feature not long ago which presented auto-updating search result pages to the user. Now it is [...]

Categories: Search Engines, Yahoo

I’m not the only one who thinks that search quality has taken a dive in recent years. I do not want to paraphrase the whole argument again, but I believe it is a result of search engines trying to keep the users longer on their “property” and the rise of autoblogs, spam sites and other [...]

Categories: Search Engines

I love to search for new userscripts on the official website. The owners of the site use Google Search to display search results which in itself is not bad. The one thing that bothered me for quite a while were missing sorting and filtering options. I’d like to see the newest entries on top for [...]

Categories: Google, Search Engines

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Alan Murray, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, discussed how and who Google now needs to compete against and it’s clear that the foundation of the company, search, is still its main focus going forward. In the interview, Schmidt described Microsoft’s search engine as their main competitor, [...]

Categories: Apple, Google, Microsoft