One Search To Rule Them All – The Future of Search Interaction

Filed under: Search Engines — Tags: , , — Sam Osborne @ Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Closing the door behind me, I enter, exhausted from the day’s work. I take a breath, blindly gazing into the luminescent space that was once my TV and start my search. With raised hands and a smile I finally understand why the new search interface has had so much hype. With a flip of my hand I find last night’s movie, it knew I wanted to watch it, I straighten my finger, push effortlessly into nothingness and fall backwards oozing into the sofa. The movie starts; I laugh a little and wonder how magnificent the technology of 2110 is…

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Yummy Google Breadcrumb Trails! Will It Mean More Clicks?

Filed under: Google, Search Engines, Updates — Phill Ohren @ Friday, November 27th, 2009

Many of you will have already noticed the latest enhancement to Google’s search engine results pages (SERPS) where a breadcrumb, or “clickable” hierarchy of the website, is displayed, replacing the traditional listing URL. Search listings will be replaced with the new Google breadcrumb trails when Google feels a website’s current URL structure lacks context.

Industry thinking is that not only will the Google breadcrumb trails enhance the user experience but they will provide an increase in click through rates for site owners, as users will be given more information about their search query which may in turn influence where they click.

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Google vs Bing: Searching For Coffee Shops On iPhone

Filed under: Mobile, Search Engines, Updates — Tags: , , , , , , — David Boyd @ Monday, August 10th, 2009

I like to drink coffee and fortunately for me there is no shortage of coffee shops in the area. Infact, there are no less than six coffee shops on the block where the Outrider Sydney office is located.

So to satisfy my curiousity I wanted to compare mobile search results on Google vs Bing when looking for “coffee shop cremorne” on the iPhone. How do the search engine results look and perform on iPhone and if I was searching would I actually find a coffee shop?

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Microsoft, Yahoo merge – a “game changer”

Filed under: News, Search Engines, Updates — Tags: , , , — Ian Lavelle @ Thursday, July 30th, 2009

For those of you too busy to read the news in the past 24 hours, there’s been a pretty major development in the land of the search engines. Microsoft and Yahoo! have announced a deal whereby they will be combining their search offerings with the aim of invigorating the challenge to Google.
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June 2009 – Google PageRank update, backlink algorithm change and Vince UK update

Filed under: Google, Search Engines, Updates — Tags: , , , , , , , — Steve Wulz @ Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

There has been a lot of discussion out there on the SEO forums regarding Google’s changes in June 2009.

Reports of Google PageRank updates, backlink algorithm changes and the continued effect of brand keyword reshuffling noticed by the wider SEO community, particularly within Google UK.

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Wolfram Alpha Set For Launch

Filed under: News, Search Engines — Tags: , , — Ian Lavelle @ Thursday, May 14th, 2009

With Wolfram Alpha set to launch in the next week, there’s been a lot of hype around the potential impact it may have on the web. Wolfram Alpha is the latest in an array of new search engines, which has been developed by the mathematician Stephen Wolfram. It differs from other search engines in that it’s being billed as a “computational knowledge engine” which presents information it has collected from various sources to the browser, rather than just returning a list of potentially relevant sites.

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Google Product Search for Mobile

Filed under: Search Engines, Updates — Tags: , , — Ian Lavelle @ Friday, April 24th, 2009

Google officially announced on their blog on Thursday that they’ve released Google Product Search for mobile. I know personally I would find this very useful, as there have been many times I’ve been in a store pondering a purchase yet hold back until I can get online and read a couple of reviews. (more…)