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“For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of …
Google News Blog: “We’ve recently updated our index, quadrupling the number of articles included in News Archive Search. We now include articles from several new publications, including the Halifax Gazette, Sydney Morning Herald, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the Village Voice. Working with our partners, we’ve also added new international publications such as the Manila …
News release: “MBTA General Manager Daniel A. Grabauskas announced the T’s partnership with Google Transit and the convenience and ease travelers will have when planning a trip on the authority’s bus, subway, commuter rail, and boat service. Similar to the MBTA’s Trip Planner, Google Transit, a feature of Google Maps, is a web-based application that …
Official Google Blog: “It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, …
Google LatLong Blog: “The web is becoming increasingly indispensable to people looking for a new home to buy…from today, if you enter a query like on Google Maps, you’ll see that we make it easy for you to see all your results on a map with a one-box that will take you to real estate …
New York Times: “Google handles roughly two-thirds of all Internet searches. It owns the largest online video site, YouTube, which is more than 10 times more popular than its nearest competitor. And last year, Google sold nearly $22 billion in advertising, more than any media company in the world.” See also via ZDNet and ConsumerWatchdog.org: …
“Google’s book search engine has a new interface [details and screen shots provided] that adds many missing features. The sidebar has been moved to the left, you can now embed a book by click on “Link” and selecting the embedding code, there’s a new thumbnail view for pages and the table of contents can be …
Official Google Blog: “…Citizentube, a special YouTube blog devoted to chronicling the way that people are using video to change the world. If you’ve followed news and politics on YouTube, you might have noticed that we started Citizentube as a video channel on the site a few years back, but we soon realized that keeping …
New on LLRX.com: Bridging the DiGital Divide: Custom Search Engines Put You in Control – Law librarian, legal research expert and blogger John J. DiGilio’s new column focuses on technology trends that leverage the web to achieve more efficient and effective results. Here John recommends using customized search engines to manage the sites you search.
“Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify. Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them “Squares” for fun). Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you’re interested in. …
PC World – Bing vs. Google vs. Yahoo: Feature Smackdown – quick, useful guide with accompanying screenshots, includes tools and features for shopping, local, travel, music and health.
Computerworld: “After weeks of speculation and online chatter, Microsoft last week took the wraps off Bing, which is the update to its far-from-beloved Microsoft Live Search. The update, which was code-named Kumo, comes with a phalanx of related services, like Bing Travel, Bing Cashback and Bing Maps for Enterprise. Paired with the company’s hefty marketing …
