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

It sometimes happens that you cannot find the information you are looking for on a specific search engine. You try different phrases and synonyms but somehow the results are not satisfactory. The best option at this point is to try another search engine to see if the results are better. It is quite possible to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

When I search on the Internet in search engines like Google or Bing I tend to favor results from domains that I trust. If I had to chose between a post on Windows7news.com and a Blogger domain I would open the Windows 7 site first since I know it and use it regularly. Locate Multiple [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Yahoo and Microsoft have been testing Bing powered search results offline for some time now. A recent email sent out to advertisers confirmed that the testing will be moved to the live search results shortly. During that period part of Yahoo’s Live search results will be powered by Bing, “with paid search volume in particular [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines, Yahoo

Thumbnail previews in the Google and Yahoo search engines. Love em or hate em. Displaying thumbnails of the websites that are appearing in the search results of Google and Yahoo can contribute to the selection process of the search engine user and to the security of the web browsing experience. Thumbnails allow search engine users [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google

Yahoo announced upgrades to three of their major products and services. Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Search and Yahoo Messenger were all updated on the same day. Social integration was the key phrase during development as most improvements to the products fall into that category. Yahoo Mail now comes with a redesigned mobile version that is available [...]

Categories: Email, Search Engines, The Web, Yahoo

Well it seems that both Yahoo and Microsoft have reached an agreement regarding their search deal. You might remember that it has been close to two years that both companies have been going at each other with Microsoft even making a $44 billion bid for the embattled search engine. Under the new deal however, both [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Yahoo

One thing that many webmasters and users do not like is that search engines keep them in the dark when they update their search engine, be it search engine algorithm changes or other updates. The Wolfram Alpha team seems to have felt the same way as they decided to release information about the first core [...]

Categories: Search Engines

The idea of Faroo is simple. Faroo uses P2P technology to crawl the World Wide Web instead of using an infrastructure with thousands of servers and worldwide datacenters. If you think about it, users are already visiting websites all the time and the basic idea is to utilize those information to build and maintain an [...]

Categories: The Web