Search Features: Shortcuts
Measuring the quality of popular keyword research tools
Contributor JR Oakes measures the quality of popular keyword research tools against data found in Google search results and performing page data...
DuckDuckGo Adds Auto Search Suggest To 34 New International Regions
The privacy search engine, DuckDuckGo, expanded their auto suggest to many other international...
The Full March Madness Bracket Shows In Google Search Results
I suspect that most college basketball fans will be following the NCAA College Basketball Tournament on TV and via their favorite bracket...
Google Testing “Sources” Area With Info About Movies, Books, People, Music & More
Last November, Google tested a new “Sources” section in its search results, in the third column where ads normally appear. It seems...
WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!
The Wall Street Journal is out with a story saying that Google is about to make one of the biggest changes in its history of offering web...
Google: No Longer Guessing About Celebrity Sexual Orientation
Wondering if some celebrity is Gay, Lesbian, Straight or Bisexual? Plenty of people do and turn to Google to find out. But the search engine...
Bing “Action Buttons” Lets You Book Flights, Rent Cars & More
Bing announced a new feature in the search results named “Action Buttons.” Action buttons give you quick links to perform specific...
Slashtag.it: This Is What Google, Bing & Yahoo Should’ve Done To Speed Up Search
There are lots of different ways to speed up searching. Google, Bing and Yahoo all offer browser toolbars — no need to visit their home...
Watching The World Series Through Google, Bing & Yahoo’s Eyes
The first game of the World Series is underway, as I write this. Curious about how it’s going, I turned to the search engines to see if...
Bing Has A New Look, Now Hosts Deep Content In Search Results
While Bing is throwing a star-studded party to announce changes to its entertainment-based search results, there are several other changes that...
Search Engines Get World Cup Fever (Some More Than Others)
The biggest sporting event in the world is underway and, if you’re unable to follow along on TV, there’s plenty of coverage of it...
Yahoo Covers The World Cup With New Shortcuts
The biggest sporting event on Earth is a month away, and Yahoo is out of the gates first to announce special shortcuts focused on the 2010 World...
Yahoo Goes Hollywood With New TV, Celebrity Shortcuts
Citing the popularity of entertainment-related searches, Yahoo’s search results have gone Hollywood with the announcement of new search...
Math Engines: For Multiplying Mixed Fractions, It’s Wolfram Alpha Over Google & Bing
Ah, math. It’s why I became an English major. But now math is spinning back around and haunting me in the form of my fifth grader. Last...
Google Adds More Answers & Info To Search Results
Google has announced a pair of changes to its search results pages that make its search results pages more informational and give searchers...
Yahoo’s Search Box Gets Smarter
Yahoo has announced a new set of features for its Search Assist service that makes the Yahoo search box a lot smarter. Perhaps the main...
Meet The Google OneBox, Plus Box, Direct Answers & The 10-Pack
Google’s “normal” listings show the title of a web page, a description of it (also called a “snippet”) and the web...
Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”
I wrote earlier that it was probably driving Google crazy to see people “amazed” that Bing is doing stuff that Google itself has...
Translation: A New Instant Answer From Bing
The Microsoft Translator Blog announced that translation is now an instant answer in Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine. Here are some...
Big Upset: Live Search & Ask.com Win Kentucky Derby Search
The major search engines are often quick to point out occasions when they’ve done a good job anticipating searchers’ needs and...