Neowin News Feed for: Search results

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...

iPhone 5 and Kim Kardashian top Bing's 2012 search lists

John Callaham — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:45:00 +0000

Microsoft has released a list of the top searches on Bing for 2012, with the iPhone 5 on top of the list for the most searched news stories and Kim Kardashian on top of the most searched person. Read more...

Google updating its search result page design

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:03:29 +0000

Google is making changes to the results page of its search engine. The change in design begins its roll out to the US and should provide a better search experience, focusing more on results. Read more...

Google introduces additional clarification for historic figures

Paul Ferson — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:48:25 +0100

Google seems to have introduced some new functionality for their main search engine, adding additional clarification to famous names and what they are most primarily celebrated for. Read more...

Google to push down copyright violators in search results

John Callaham — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:14:47 +0100

Google has announced that, starting next week, it will push down websites that have received high amounts of removal notices for copyright infringements in its search results. Read more...

Google launches 34 button calculator for search results

John Callaham — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:32:38 +0100

Google has now added a 34 button calculator feature in its search engine, allowing users to interact with Google in some new and interesting ways besides just generating answers to questions. Read more...

Microsoft releases game to help improve Bing search results

Tom Warren — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:49:31 +0100

Microsoft Research have released an online game to help fine-tune search results for Bing. The game is named "Page Hunt" and the basic idea is to show the player a random web page, and... Read more...

Google adds Flight Statistics to Search Results

Slimy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:49:24 +0000

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Google Incorporated always seems a step ahead when it comes to improving its search engine. This time, the company has added flight statistics, meaning you’ll no longer have to visit your airport’s website to check... Read more...

Xerox tool analyzes text to improve search results

Slimy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:07:58 +0100

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Xerox researchers have developed a search tool, dubbed FactSpotter, that analyzes the underlying grammar of a text in order to infer additional information, such as whether ambiguous words are being used as nouns or verbs,... Read more...

McAfee: Search results can be dangerous

Slimy — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:55:29 +0100

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McAfee is reporting that some web search companies are better at filtering out bad links than others: Google has improved over the past year, AOL has the safest search results on the Web right now... Read more...

Google Korea to censor pornographic search results

Slimy — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:25:33 +0100

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Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine on September 1, by having users verify their age when searching for any of about 700 Korean words judged to be adult and... Read more...

Corporations seek better search results

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:45:24 +0100

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When American carmaker Ford announced that it was replacing Firestone tires on all of its vehicles, consumers stampeded the corporate Web site in search of information that went beyond the typical product sheet. Over the... Read more...