Tag: SEARCH ENGINES

Google is just about everyone's go-to search engine. Hell, it's the only search engine whose name has become a verb. (We don't foresee anyone "Binging" anything anytime soon.) But we wonder: Is Google really the search engine for you? Enter a search query at Blind Search, and you'll be presented with three different sets of results in unlabeled columns (each one is a different search engine). ...

Yahoo! buzz editor Vera Chan spoke to USAToday.com about the most misspelled search engine terms, putting 'Brack Obama,' 'Swan Flu,' and 'Paperview boxing' (our personal favorite) at the top of the list. Trends and breaking news, she said, obviously contribute to the misspellings, but the worst typos occur when searchers look for other sites, including 'Gogle' and 'utube.' Google senior engineer ...

Just this week, Microsoft introduced Bing, a new search engine, to the world. Despite some positive reviews, the Google competitor is already stirring up controversy. It turns out that, with just a few simple clicks in the site's security settings, videos can be previewed from within Bing's search results. So, what's all the hoopla about? Any video can be played, which means pornography can be ...

We've said it before, but we can't drive it home enough. If it's free, it's going to hurt you. And McAfee agrees. The Internet security bigwig today released its 2009 report on search terms most commonly used by cybercriminals to infect unsuspecting computers. The search term to most carefully avoid? Apparently, "screensavers" has a 59.1-percent chance of sending you to a malicious site. "Free ...

About half of Microsoft's full-time stateside employees use Google search instead of Microsoft's own Live Search, reports CNET. Although that seems like a laughable percentage, it's actually a vast improvement from a year earlier, when about 80-percent of employees used Google exclusively. According to Microsoft senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi, the software giant is still struggling to get ...

Every year, Google gives us a peak at the most popular search terms used by people on its now ubiquitous search site. This year, the iPhone took the number one spot on Google's of the fastest rising search terms in 2007 -- no surprise considering the device didn't really exist in 2006. The rest of the top 10 is dominated by social networks and entertainment. Webkinz, a social network and ...