Posts tagged search
Web firms cry foul over Google results
Dec 15th
By Katherine Noyes (PC World)
A number of Web sites including TripAdvisor, WebMD, Yelp, and Citysearch have charged that Google gives preferential treatment to its own content when providing results for users’ online searches, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
“Google does seem to be chasing us and I don’t like it one bit,” TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer told the Journal.
What the world Googled in 2010
Dec 13th
By Ian Paul
Another year is coming to a close and with it the endless parade of year-in-review articles rehashing the triumphs and tragedies of 2010. We’ve already seen Yahoo’s top searches of 2010 showing that Yahoos this year were most concerned with the BP Oil Spill, World Cup in South Africa, Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian and Lady Gaga.
Now it’s Google’s turn with a look at what its millions of users have been interested in this past year.
Google Instant alphabet results herald beginning of ‘key letters’
Sep 8th
Google has started rolling out its newest innovation in search – Google Instant.
Users signed in to their accounts will be the first to notice the new feature, basically an auto-complete on steroids. Rather than just suggest what search query you might be typing, Google now just cuts to the chase and actually starts returning results as you type.
How I Googled my apartment hunt
Jul 23rd
When I found myself hunting for an apartment for the third time in 18 months, an uncomfortable feeling of weariness started to seep into my bones.
Brian Jackson
Looking for a place to live is daunting in a place like Toronto, where the competition amongst renters is fierce. One must avoid slum lords, master a knowledge of tenant rights, make cold calls, and prepare to hand over more personal information than your mother knows about you to a complete stranger. But instead of succumbing to apartment hunt exhaustion, I decided to give it a Web 2.0 punch and make finding the perfect place to live nearly automatic.
