The battle for search is still going strong. All search companies are continually tweaking and adjusting their algorithms to help improve their search results and keep those same formulas for being gamed by developers.
 
With Microsoft releasing Bing and Google working on their newest search algorithm called Google Caffeine, there’s a lot of effort around incorporating the idea of social search with your organic results.
One of my biggest complaints about search is that my results are impacted by just about everything that’s available on the web. If I’m searching for a question about a certain topic, I don’t want to get …read more

The Net has been buzzing in a big way this week with tons of details about the Zune HD, Microsoft’s next-gen, handheld multimedia device.

The FCC has filed its findings about the Zune HD on the FCC website, which provide a breakdown of the device’s specs and several pictures of its inner (and outer) workings. Engadget sums up the info learned:

Zune HD will be available in 16GB and 32GB flavors
The device’s user interface is built on Windows CE
An NVIDIA Tegra chip is used for graphics processing

The FCC’s pictures, which you can view on Engadget’s website, also include several shots of the …read more

I have always used Google and recently, the launch of Bing makes me move to the new search engine seeing at another set of search engine results. Sometimes, I cannot decide which one to use the given moment. Good thing a developer named Domagoj Pavlesic has decided to make things easier as he has launched bing-vs-google which allows you to search and compare the results side by side.

The interface is not well designed but if you are looking to compare results especially when you are checking search engine ranking of your keywords, the bing vs google is definitely functional.
Go …read more

I have written previously that Bing is Microsoft’s last stand and their ability to get bigger market share and become a real player in the search engine wars largely depend on the performance of Bing in the coming months and years. Initially, when Bing launched, traffic spiked which was normal but was no indication about a long term usage and growth.

For the month of June, Bing is looking great by becoming the 13th most visited site in the U.S. with 49.57 million. This puts Bing ahead of Digg, Twitter, and CNN. While their ultimate goal is far from happening, …read more

Jumping on your computer and quickly firing up your browser to search for something has become second nature to most of us. Opening your search engine of choice and throwing a couple of terms in the text box doesn’t take much thought. The question is are you fine-tuning your actions to get a manageable collection of results or are you pulling back a collection of haystacks looking for that one needle.

There’s a number of tips you can manage to add to your searching routine to help pull back that finer tuned section of results you’ve been looking for all this …read more

Microsoft previously filed for a patent on hot or not which allow users to rate a picture on it’s hotness level. The patent application states that the contributor would upload self images for viewing and would then be rated by viewers that provides an opinion on various fashion or cosmetic looks.
 
In an excerpt of the application description for the patent:
“The contributor uploads self images for viewing and rating (or voting) by viewers who choose provide an opinion on different fashion and/or cosmetic looks of the contributor. The contributor takes images show the contributor presented with a number (e.g., two) of …read more