Category «Search Engines»

Google Keywords and search queries using metatags

Google News blog: “…today we’re excited to announce a news_keywords metatag. The goal is simple: empower news writers to express their stories freely while helping Google News to properly understand and classify that content so that it’s discoverable by our wide audience of users. Similar in spirit to the plain keywords metatag, the news_keywords metatag …

Subjects: Search Engines

New on LLRX – Privacy Resources and Sites on the Internet

Via LLRX.com, Privacy Resources and Sites on the Internet – Marcus P. Zillman’s guide is a comprehensive listing of both free and low cost privacy resources currently available on the Internet. It includes associations, indexes and search engines, as well as websites and programs that provide the latest technology and information on Web privacy. This …

Subjects: Internet, PC Security, Privacy, Search Engines

New on LLRX – Tutorial Resources on the Internet

Via LLRX.com – Tutorial Resources on the Internet – Marcus P. Zillman’s guide is a wide ranging and immediately useful listing of tutorial resources and sites on the Internet. This guide will assist you to discover, review and select the most relevant and reliable sources for your requirements, on topics that include: e-training, health sciences …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Pubget – search engine for life science PDFs

“Pubget develops cloud-based content access tools for scientists, researchers and libraries. The company’s core product, pubget.com, is a free site for legally finding and directly retrieving research papers. [It is] the comprehensive source for science PDFs, including everything you’d find in Medline. We add 10,000 new papers each day…Pubget was purchased by Copyright Clearance Center, …

Subjects: Search Engines

The Atlantic – How Google Builds Its Maps

Alexis Madrigal – “Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that’s the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits and traffic conditions. This is the data that you’re drawing from when you ask Google …

Subjects: Search Engines

comScore Releases July 2012 U.S. Online Video Rankings

News release: “comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that more than 184 million U.S. Internet users watched 36.9 billion online content videos in July, while video ad views totaled 9.6 billion. Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers: “Google Sites, driven primarily …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Search Engines

Google "I'm Feeling Lucky Search" Expands to Include New Functions

Hover your cursor over the I’m Feeling Lucky button on the Google search engine, and watch the revolving set of choices – and choose, and choose from among one of the following destinations/functions/features that spin by: I’m feeling Doodly; I’m feeling Lucky; I’m feeling Playful; I’m feeling Artistic; I’m feeling Hungry; I’m feeling Puzzled; I’m …

Subjects: Search Engines

ICO statement on information received from Google about retention of Street View data

Statement: 27 July 2012 – “The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued the following statement today in response to information received from Google about the retention of payload data collected by its Street View vehicles. An ICO spokesperson said: “Earlier today Google contacted the ICO to confirm that it still had in its possession some …

Subjects: EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Privacy, Search Engines

Amazon surpasses Google for online buyers conducting product research

Forester Report, July 26, 2012: “Some 30% of online buyers began researching their last online purchase with Amazon, compared with 13% researching a product on Google, according to a new Forrester survey of nearly 4,000 US respondents. This is a growing trend as Amazon increasingly becomes the first-stop shop for consumers, taking market share away …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Search Engines

Google – Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet Search

Google Official Blog: “Unlike searching on a desktop or laptop computer, when you’re searching on a touch-screen mobile device it’s often inconvenient to type. So we strive to give you a variety of ways to interact with Google, be it by speaking your queries, getting results before you finish typing, or searching by image. Now …

Subjects: Search Engines