Google Search Lands

August 26th, 2008
Google have enhanced their search engine by offering a keyword suggestions/predictive service called Google Search. Type anything into the Google Search box and you will be offered a variety of alternative keyword phrases and most commonly searched phrases, all helping to make your search experience easier. At the moment it is only ...

The Olympics kick off

August 11th, 2008
The Olympics kicked off this weekend and no doubt everyone has been glued to the telly waiting to see who wins what. However, it’s not only in Beijing that the competition has been heating up the Internet has been hot with websites fighting to be the number one Olympics news and ...

Yahoo! update search index

August 5th, 2008
The Yahoo! search blog posted the following: "We'll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index, but expect the update will be completed soon." So ...

Del.licio.us has a makeover

August 1st, 2008
Bookmarking website Del.licio.us has undergone a wee makeover not only changing its site to make it more functional for users but it has also changed its URL to delicious.com. The main difference users will see is the vast difference in loading up and the site is much easier and faster to ...

How many?!

July 28th, 2008
Google has just revealed that it “knows” of 1 trillion web based items, on their blog they were very keen to point out this fact but to also states that they haven’t necessarily indexed each and every one of these. A search engine revealing the number of pages it has indexed ...

Online reputation not just for companies

July 22nd, 2008
Online reputation management is something you would usually leave for the commercial businesses and companies to worry about, but don’t rest to easy as the internet is increasingly becoming a tool for investigating an individual’s profile. It is common knowledge that businesses now use social pages to suss out what kind ...

Google number 1 consumer brand

July 21st, 2008
A consumer survey has revealed that internet giant Google has topped a consumer survey for being the top global brand. Google, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, took the number one spot over 1000 different companies, the popularity of the brand being attributed to its good company ethos and the ...

Elections Speech Gadget

July 16th, 2008
Google is introducing a new gadget that will allow the politically minded of us to search for political speeches. The speech recognition technology (also shared with Goog411) produces a transcript of the videos, which can then searched by users of the Gadget to find precise phrases or keywords in speeches or ...

YouTube gets Geographic

July 16th, 2008
In a bid to increase the “searchability” of certain video YouTube have introduced a new geographic location search facility. When uploading a video users can now Geotag a video with the video’s location. This means that when users search Paris, they will no longer have to search through all the Paris ...

Blogger arrests hit record high

July 8th, 2008
The benefits of the Internet being a forum for free speech is fast becoming a thing of the past, a report published by the University of Washington has revealed that since 2003 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views in a blog; with three times more bloggers arrested ...