Neowin News Feed for: Search

Building Bing: Behind the scenes of the world's second largest search engine

Brad Sams — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:36:59 +0100

Building a search engine is not an easy task as you have to take a huge amount of data display them intuitively, and we have an inside look at how Bing tackles this massive challenge. Read more...

Bing receives 2 billion data points from Facebook each day

Brad Sams — Fri, 03 May 2013 19:50:27 +0100

Microsoft's Bing search engine processes a lot of data on a daily basis and we are getting a small glimpse of the scale at which Facebook provides content for search results. Read more...

Google Now available on iOS

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:39:27 +0100

Google's predictive searching service, Now, is finally available on iOS. It comes in the form of an update to the Google Search app and users will need to opt-in for the service to work. Read more...

Leaked code shows that Google Now may come to search

Max Slater-Robins — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:57:13 +0100

Google Now was one of the flagship features announced in Android 4.1 and goes head-to-head with Siri. Google may be looking to introduce Now into Google search, according to some leaked code. Read more...

Security certificate problems affect Bing.com

Ben Buffone — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:47:14 +0100

When navigating to the Bing web site through a secure connection, a security certificate error message greets you in most browsers. At present, certificate providers are mostly likely to blame. Read more...

Google gets sued over “cynical manipulation of search results”

Andy Weir — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:15:21 +0100

Google faces allegations of anti-competitive behaviour yet again, as a UK mapping company says its products are now "harder to find" due to Google's "cynical manipulation of search results". Read more...

Twitter to launch new Music app on Friday (Update)

Max Slater-Robins — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:34:04 +0100

Twitter is expected to launch Twitter Music, a search & discovery app based on a user's follows and interactions with musicians. The service is based on We are Hunted, which Twitter recently acquired. Read more...

Apple and Yahoo discussing partnerships

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:57:07 +0100

A report by the Wall Street Journal has outlined talks between Yahoo! and Apple about a deeper integration of Yahoo! services to combat iOS' reliance on Google. Apple may also be considering Bing. Read more...

Windows Blue (or 8.1) to revamp search features

John Callaham — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:02:17 +0100

The leaked build of Microsoft's Windows Blue (or 8.1) update shows that the search experience for the OS has been revamped compared to the version available on Windows 8. Read more...

Bow-chicka-OH-MY: A look at the world's web porn searches

Andy Weir — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:48:54 +0000

The world's largest porn search engine has compiled a breakdown of the world's top searches for adult content by country. We take a look at some of the eyebrow-raising highlights. Read more...

Google Now adds home screen widget, improved movie cards, real estate listings

Stephen Robinson — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:29:04 +0000

Google's search app for Android has been updated to include a Google Now widget for your home screen and lock screen, improved movie cards and real estate listings. Read more...

Google could make $5 billion from tablet search revenue alone

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:59:04 +0000

In a report today, Marin Software - who advise Macy's, Gap and others on web-search ads - predict that Google could make $5 billion from tablet ad clicks alone. Read more...

Yahoo CEO: Bing deal isn't working well

Anthony Tosie — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:11:57 +0000

Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, said at a technology conference Tuesday that she's not satisfied with how the Yahoo-Bing search partnership is working for her company. Read more...

Bing falls to #5 search engine, Yandex takes #4

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:28:36 +0000

Bing has been surpassed in global search engine rankings, falling to the #5 spot as Russia's Yandex soars into 4th pace. Unsurprisingly Google still retains place #1 with over 65% market share Read more...

Video search results added to Bing Windows 8 app

John Callaham — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:27:54 +0000

Microsoft has announced that its Bing search app for Windows 8 now has a way to bring up video clips in its search results, in addition to images and text results. Read more...

Microsoft on desktop vs. mobile search on Bing

John Callaham — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:31:39 +0000

Microsoft's chief marketing officer for Bing has given a new interview where he talks about the company's search strategies, including desktop versus mobile search. Read more...

Bing image search gets a few visual tweaks, adds news features

Brad Sams — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:44:15 +0000

Microsoft has rolled out a few updates to its Bing search engine that adds a few visual tweaks to the image layouts with hopes that it makes viewing images, easier. Read more...

Festivus is only 10 days away! Here's how Google celebrate

Andrew Stevenson — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:40:46 +0000

In their own quirky way, Google have performed a Feat of Strength towards those who celebrate Festivus, Christmas' less commercial brother, by adding a Festivus Pole to their Festivus searches! Read more...

Google posts its annual Zeitgeist search report, here's what 2012 looked like

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:10:12 +0000

Google posted their annual report for searches called Zeitgeist 2012. Dive in and find out what the most searched for terms were and what events made the biggest impact this year. Read more...

TechSpot: How Has Windows Search Improved Since Win2k? Hint: It Hasn't!

Julio Franco — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:01:18 +0000

What annoys me even more are the "improvements" made to Windows search through the years. The search box in Windows 2000 is very powerful, there are no cute animations and there are no exclusions... Read more...