You Can Now Search For Vine Videos On The Web
Vine isn't just for your phone anymore: The six-second video service Vine, owned by Twitter, now lets you search for videos and browse categories on the Web, just like you would on your mobile device....
View ArticleApple Hits Google Where It Hurts With Bing Integration In iOS 8 And Mac OS X
Apple has picked a new favorite search engine and Google is feeling the cold shoulder. At Monday’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple unveiled its new Mac operating system, OS X Yosemite and with it...
View ArticleGoogle To Europe: Sometimes It's Not So Easy To Forget
Turns out there are a lot of people who want the Internet to forget about them—whether they deserve it or not.In May, a European court ruled that Google must remove "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer...
View ArticleWatch Out: Mobile Search Will Make Facebook Stalking Easier Than Ever
You may want to take a quick gander through your entire Facebook history, because Facebook is testing a feature that makes your status updates searchable on mobile. And I bet there are some updates you...
View ArticleSearch All The Tweets! Twitter Now Indexed All The Way Back To 2006
Twitter gave its search function a major upgrade, indexing the hundreds of billions of public tweets sent since 2006, the company announced on Tuesday. Currently, Twitter's search feature is fairly...
View ArticleHere Comes the iPhone Safari Browser, Starring … Bing?
iPhone and Mac users, brace yourself for change: Google’s tenure as the Safari default search engine for Apple’s phones, tablets and computers will expire next year, sources tell The Information. If...
View ArticleGoogle Now Gives Hypochrondriacs What They Want
Google has now made it easier for armchair physicians to find things to freak out about.The tech giant just announced the inclusion of medical information to its Knowledge Graph searches, allowing...
View ArticleIn Challenge To Google, Pinterest Launches Guided Search
Pinterest confirmed our suspicions that the visual social network is ready to take on Google when it comes to search. See also: Why Pinterest Is The Google Competitor You Weren't ExpectingAt an event...
View ArticleThanks To Google's Mobilegeddon, Your Search Rank May Be Toast
It's not as if you haven't been warned. Google has said for years it was going to get serious about mobile. Now, on April 21, it is.As it announced back in February, on April 21 Google will "expand...
View ArticleWhy The EU Hates Google: Its End Game Is Still A Single Search Result
This post first appeared on the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service; it has been edited. For inquires, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.Back to the futureGoogle’s entire...
View ArticleWhat A Facebook Social Search Engine May Look Like
When it comes to search strategy, Google and Facebook both seek to give users the best possible result. While Google will continue to trust technical data over social data, though, Facebook is likely...
View ArticleSorry, Google: Why Yahoo Remains Stuck With Microsoft's Bing
It all makes sense: prominent ex-Googler Marissa Mayer takes over Yahoo, which uses Microsoft's Bing as its search provider. But Microsoft has failed to live up to its contract with Yahoo, leaving...
View ArticleThe First .XXX Search Engine - It's Surprisingly Demure
It was bound to happen at some point: Search.xxx, a new search engine from ICM Registry, the operator for .xxx domains, has made its debut. So why does it look so much like other search...
View ArticleCourt Rules -- Wrongly -- That Google Is A Publisher
An Australian court made a huge mistake Monday. It ruled that Google can be treated as a publisher for the content of its search results -- and therefore be found guilty of libel. If the ruling stands,...
View ArticleThe Kardashians Won Big On Bing Searches In 2012
Somewhere in Hollywood, the publicists for Kim Kardashian and her sisters are raising a toast. According to Microsoft's Bing search engine, the Kardashian sisters were easily among the most...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Don't Get 'Scroogled' By Google Search Results
On Wednesday, Microsoft began running a national ad campaign to warn users to avoid being “Scroogled” by Google search results that have been influenced by paid placement.Specifically, Microsoft’s...
View ArticleCheating DeathWatch: Microsoft Isn't Dead Yet
The ReadWrite DeathWatch is known for serving up plenty of doom, gloom and grumpiness. But for the Holiday Season, we're going to take a slightly different tack, and highlight companies and...
View ArticleGoogle Changes SafeSearch Filtering Of Explicit Results
Internet porn surfers everywhere were crying foul last week over Google's decision to change its "SafeSearch" feature to exclude adult content from searches. Anyone that uses Google to find adult...
View ArticleGoogle's FTC Settlement Is An Epic Fail For Microsoft
Microsoft had a pretty lousy year in 2012, putting out a string of big products – Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and the Surface tablet – that all turned out to be be disappointing.But those pale in...
View ArticleFacebook Debuts Graph Search, A Natural Language Powered Social Search Engine
Now we know what Facebook's mysterious announcement is. Today at its Menlo Park, California, headquarters, Facebook took the wraps off Graph Search, an instant smart search that sifts through the...
View ArticleFacebook Graph Search Is Boring: We Need A Unified Search AI
The big Facebook news tech blogs were all freaking out about turned out to be just another shot in the platform wars.There's nothing exciting about Facebook's Graph Search. It's just another way to...
View ArticleFacebook's Graph Search = The Ultimate Online Dating Service?
If you've ever run the virtual gauntlet of online dating, you're well aware that most people are creepy. But the stigma of online dating is fast dissolving - and starting with Graph Search, Facebook is...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Bing Wins With Facebook's Graph Search - Or Does It?
Microsoft's Bing search engine will ride the coattails of Facebook's Graph Search for years to come, gaining knowledge and possibly ad revenue as Facebook expands Graph Search's capabilities.That can...
View ArticleFacebook Graph Search Starts Rolling Out - And Awkward Queries Abound!
Get ready for the social explosion. Facebook Graph Search has begun to roll out to earlybirds who opted into the beta of the new social search bar, which was announced last week at the company's Menlo...
View ArticleApple Wishes It Knew How To Quit Google's Money
How much would you pay to be the default search engine in the iOS mobile operating system?According to a report at TechCrunch on Tuesday, the magic figure that Google will be paying Apple for the...
View ArticleRIAA Slams Google For Anti-Piracy Fail
Frustrated and bitter that laws like SOPA and PIPA have yet to get pushed through Congress without those pesky constituents objecting to turning the U.S. government into muscle for entertainment...
View ArticleUndeterred By Failure, Microsoft Vows To 'Scroogle' Google Some More
Microsoft's latest attempt to drag down Google has again fallen flat. But that hasn't deterred Redmond, which insists it will press on with its high-profile "Scroogled" attack-ad campaign on Google's...
View ArticleRoku 3: There's A Great Video Search Engine In That Box
Roku debuted its next-generation streaming set-top box, the $99.99 Roku 3, on Tuesday night, complete with a faster processor, an updated interface, plus an innovative remote control that hides a...
View ArticleForget Searching For Content - Content Is About To Start Searching For You
The world of search is about to be flipped completely on its head. As part of that sea change, today's reactive Web-based searches are about to give way to proactive, geo-fenced answers that will pop...
View ArticleHow The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search
As mobile devices dictate the terms of search and how results are being conveyed to end users, there's another phenomenon that will greatly influence the future of search - very soon, we're going to be...
View ArticleGoogle Now Opens Up To iPhone And iPad Users
Today, Google's Googliest project makes the leap from Android to iOS. Google Now, announced last June at the company's I/O 2012 conference, is part smart search and part personal assistant — but don't...
View ArticleNext-Generation Search: Software Bots Will Anticipate Your Needs
Contextual search and the Internet of Things are two key factors in how search is evolving from users actively searching for information to users receiving information as they need it.But there is...
View ArticleGoogle Is Turning Search Into The Planet's Biggest Anticipatory System
Amid a blizzard of announcements at its I/O conference, Google unveiled a major change to its core search product in singularly low-key fashion.Amit Singhal, a senior Google executive in charge of its...
View ArticleGoogle Search Learns To Listen & Understand Context
In all of the razzle-dazzle coming out of Google I/O Wednesday morning, it's easy to forget about the company's core product: Search. But Google didn't forget about Search, showing off a number of...
View ArticleSearching Hadoop Data Just Got A Lot Easier
The story of Hadoop is about two things: storing data and getting actionable information about that data. One way to mine Hadoop for information has been with enterprise search, which enables...
View ArticleWith Windows 8.1, Microsoft Steps Back Toward Operating System Relevance
Microsoft officially released a preview of Windows 8.1 this morning, coinciding with the opening of Microsoft Build, the company's annual developer to-do here in San Francisco.The preview release (get...
View ArticleGoogle Search Gets Even More Personal
Google Now fans have been hoping for a desktop version of the intelligent mobile personal assistant, and now ... well, it still isn't quite here. But something similar is coming to desktops,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Cries Google Monopoly, Irony Meters Spike
Is Google really the monopoly Steve Ballmer says it is, or was Ballmer throwing the verbal equivalent of a chair when he told Microsoft's analyst conference Thursday that the search company was playing...
View ArticleNow You Can Ask Google Search To Compare, Filter And Play
As a lead-in to its 15th anniversary tomorrow, Google announced changes to its search platform that expand its "knowledge graph"—that is, its ability to answer your questions directly instead of simply...
View ArticleWhy Google’s App Indexing In Android KitKat Is A Game Changer
Guest author John Milinovich is the CEO of URX. See also: Google Search Extends Deep Into Apps With Android 4.4 KitKatIn October, Google unveiled KitKat, the newest addition to the Android family. One...
View ArticleTwitter Tweaks Its Homepage Search
Twitter rolled out new search filters on Twitter.com that allow you to limit searches with categories such as "people you follow," videos, news, and photos. The update also makes Twitter's advanced...
View ArticleHow Yahoo Can Get Its Search Mojo Back From Microsoft
Yahoo reportedly wants out of a deal that ties its search services to Microsoft, and is preparing new technological initiatives to reclaim its position in the search market. According to Kara Swisher...
View ArticlePinterest Cofounder Evan Sharp: How The Visual Web Helps You See The Future
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Evan Sharp was still an architecture student at Columbia University when he and...
View ArticleYahoo: Destroyer Of Startups
Another day, another Yahoo acquisition.Yesterday the search giant swiped up the five-man Vizify team, a data visualization startup that turns your social media posts into interactive infographics and...
View ArticleYahoo Partners With Yelp To Bring Reviews To Search
Today Yahoo announced a partnership with the business review site Yelp that will display user reviews and similar information in search results. Searching Yahoo for a specific restaurant or other...
View ArticleWhy Pinterest Is The Google Competitor You Weren't Expecting
There are now nearly one billion "Place Pins" on Pinterest, the company said in an email Monday. And with that announcement, Pinterest moves one step closer to becoming a true search engine alternative...
View ArticleHow Yahoo Could Get Back In The Search Game
Google is the clear winner in Web search, but Yahoo still thinks it can make a dent in the market—even though Yahoo Web search technically doesn't exist since the company handed over its search...
View ArticleApple’s iOS 9 Search API Is Huge For App Developers
On stage at WWDC, Apple’s Craig Federighi announced new developer tools to give app makers deeper search powers in iOS 9. The new search API (application programming interface) will offer developers...
View ArticleGoogle Shows How Fast America Rushed To Learn About Gay Marriage
This post first appeared on the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service; it has been edited. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein. Just 3 minutes after the Supreme...
View ArticleWhat Made Google Great May Be Its Biggest Risk
Guest author Steffon Davis is head of product and founder of Curalytics, a social engineering and curation-data startup. Google’s stated mission is to “organize the world’s information,” but when it...
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