Clicks On Google Search Ads Show Elsa Is Tops, While Mr. Blobby Ranks Among Least Popular Halloween Costumes
Just as Google saw when looking at overall search data, AdGooroo discovered by looking at ad clicks on Google: Frozen’s Elsa is this year’s golden child of Halloween in the U.S. Of the $2.9 million advertisers spent on 1,128 Halloween costume keywords, paid search research firm AdGooroo…
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Bing Teams Up With CNN To Let Viewers Give “Real-Time” Feedback On 2014 Election Coverage
Bing is upping its political game, announcing today a partnership with CNN where users can give “real-time feedback” on CNN’s political coverage via Bing Pulse. According to the announcement, viewers will be able to vote on CNN broadcasts during the 2014 US elections, and all the…
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Apple Capturing Spotlight Search Query Data, Sharing With Bing
An improved Spotlight Search is a central feature of Apple’s new Yosemite operating system for the Mac. As reported when Yosemite was announced in June, Spotlight searches your desktop but also provides web search suggestions from Bing. There are a number of structured data sources such as…
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Bing & Google Offering New Search Tools For 2014 Election Season
With the November 4th elections looming ever so near, both Bing and Google have launched search tools to help voters stay informed. From news and analysis, to predictions and voter registration information, each site is doing their part to help voters …
New Google Feature Would Offer Video Chats With Doctors
According to a report from Engadget.com, Google is trying out a new way to help users diagnose whatever ailments they may be suffering, or, at least, searching. When searching for illness-related symptoms, users would see a “Talk with a doctor now” link within the Google search card….
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Google Searches For Halloween Costumes Show Frozen’s Elsa, Olaf & Anna Top The List
What are the hottest and most desirable costumes for Halloween this year? Well, according to Google searches, the movie Frozen made three of the top ten list. Elsa, Olaf and Anna from Frozen the Movie are the top trending costume searches on Google Sho…
The Internet’s Front Page — Reddit — Now Worthy Of Being In Google News
Google News now is considering Reddit, the popular user-generated news site, to be a worthy news source for Google. If you search for [dunkin donuts] in Google, a box with news items comes up in the “In The News” section. The first item listed is a Reddit link to an image showing how…
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Google Marks How Big Its Grown With Animated 16th Birthday Logo
Today’s Google logo marks the search engine’s sweet sixteen. Founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google started out as “BackRub” – a search engine Brin and Page originally constructed in 1996 using links to rank the importance of individual web pages. By…
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Google Now Lets Travelers Know When Flight Prices Drop
Google is helping travelers save money with a new Now card that tells users when a price has dropped on a flight. According to this Google+ post, you can tap the card to display the Flight Search info and book your trip from there. It only works if you’ve searched Google Flights on the…
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First Day Of Autumn Google Logo Reminds Us The Fall Season Is Here
Today’s Google logo marks the first day of the Autumnal Equinox with an animated doodle of trees that go from grey to branches filled with Fall-colored leaves dropping to reveal Google’s name. The logo is being served to most of Google’s Northern Hemisphere homepages, while…
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Bing Image Search Updates Include Touch Friendly Result Pages That Adapt To Screen Size & Resolution
Over the next few weeks, Bing is rolling out new updates to its image search experience that include touch-friendly search result pages that have been designed to adapt to a user’s screen size and resolution. According to the announcement, image results will soon expand to the full width of a…
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Leo Tolstoy Google Logo Brings To Life The Author’s Classic Novels
Today’s Google logo is a an homage to Leo Tolstoy to mark the Russian author’s 186th birthday. The animated logo brings to life scenes from Tolstoy’s classic novels War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, along with stills of Tolstoy at his writing desk and…
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Getty Images Sues Microsoft For “Massive Infringement” Of Copyright By Bing Image Widget
It didn’t take long for Bing’s new Image Widget to come under fire for alleged copyright infringement. The feature, which enables online publishers to display photos pulled in by the Bing search engine, rolled out Aug. 22. Today, Getty Images filed suit in a New York federal court…
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Could DuckDuckGo Overtake Bing?
Amid growing privacy concerns and a deal with Apple, DuckDuckGo has the potential to become a major player in search.
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Google Kerning Easter Egg Plays Tricks With Typography
Google UK’s Peter Far found an Easter Egg designed specifically for hardcore typography fans. If you search for [kerning] in one tab, and [typography kerning] in another, you’ll notice a little extra space between the lettering on the [kerning] search results page. Search Engine…
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Google Says There’s No Bug, Older Versions Of Its Search Page Showing Up On Purpose
After more than 200 comments on a Google Search Help Forum thread last week, reporting a glitch that caused an older version of Google’s search page to display in certain browsers, a Google employee claimed there was no glitch at all. According to Googler Nealem, the page was working just…
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Google Blog Search Now Within Google News Search
Google has quietly disabled the Google Blog Search home page at google.com/blogsearch and redirects it to the Google home page. Now, if you want to filter content based on blog posts, you can do so by going to Google News, clicking on the Search Tools and selecting the “All news” drop…
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Search Within A Search: Google Testing New Search Box
Google is trying out a new search box that displays under the first search result. Right now, Google’s first search result often includes a search box that lets users search within that first search result, as shown here for Microsoft.com: According to a report on Google Operating System…
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Bing Testing More Updates To Its Search Results Page
After this week’s story on possible changes coming to Bing’s navigation bar, it appears the site is also testing how search results are displayed. Along with repositioning its navigation bar, All Google reports Bing is experimenting with Google-like search cards for its results….
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Bing Tests New Search Results Design & Top Navigation
Bing is testing several new interfaces for their search results. The tests interface includes moving the top navigation below the search box, using yellow lines above or on the left side of the navigation menus and/or gray arrows integrated with the to…