Topsy says it now has the most comprehensive index of Twitter content available online, having recently indexed its 5 billionth tweet and its 2.5 billionth link from the network. The company… Read more »
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says the service has seen its search volume climb by more than 30 percent in the past few months, with over 800 million queries being handled every… Read more »
Facebook’s search results will now include all web pages that have been “liked” by users who clicked on buttons powered by the social network’s Open Graph protocol, in what is clearly… Read more »
Google recently launched a new search indexing system called Caffeine, which it says produces results that are 50 percent “fresher.” Why? Because Google needed to respond faster in a world that… Read more »
Google recently launched a new indexing system called Caffeine, which it says produces results that are up to 50 percent “fresher.” Why the pressure to improve? Because Google needs to respond… Read more »
Google is rolling out a new look for its search pages. The biggest difference is a new left-hand navigation menu that appears by default, with colorful icons for different categories. The… Read more »
Cuil, a widely panned search engine that debuted in 2008, has launched an automated encyclopedia called Cpedia that produces articles on topics by generating them from pages found in its index… Read more »
In its latest acquisition — and its first in the UK — Google has bought a small visual-search startup called Plink, maker of a mobile app that recognizes works of art… Read more »
Google’s mobile services are at least partially blocked for users in mainland China, according to the page that Google set up recently to track which of its services are available to… Read more »
Google has pulled back the curtain on a new feature that until now has been in restricted beta: the addition of wiki-style functions in standard search results. In many ways, Google… Read more »