Google’s doodle video on Valentine’s Day (found here) made a lot of people question Internet research and whether it’s beneficial when it comes to finding a relationship. In the video, a boy searches Google for ways to impress a girl, but after trying all of the search engine’s suggestions, he still fails to get her [...]
Google+ can be a very useful for businesses – they can use it to improve their customer service process. One of the groundbreaking features that Google+ is including in its social media package is called “Hangout.” This feature lets users chat face-to-face. Socially, this is fun because it gives users the chance to connect more [...]
A lot of Google+ features are designed to improve upon other features on other social media sites. Take for example, “Sparks.” Sparks is similar to Twitter, but offers users more relevant newfeed information. It starts when the user chooses topics that they are interested in (sports teams, news headlines, etc.). Sparks will then customize their [...]
When someone wants to search for an image on Google, they may think that finding images is like finding search results. This is definitely not the case anymore. Back in 2007, Google launched a feature called universal search. Universal search incorporated data from non-link sources to create search results. This means that Google incorporates extra [...]
It seems as though the browser that users choose will also have an impact on the search engine that they use, too. So in that case, search engines that want to increase their number of loyal users should improve the functionality of their web browser (if they offer one). If they don’t, however, there’s still [...]
Google’s Chrome browser is gaining users around the world. In fact, according to the The Guardian, Chrome is the second most popular browser in the UK. The latest edition of Chrome comes with new features that make searching easier for users including Instant Pages. When you use Chrome 13 and Google as your search engine, [...]
Google’s +1 feature has received a lot of buzz in the online world. It was originally designed to give users the ability to personally endorse certain links in Google’s search results pages to other users in their Google network. Since its initial launch, its functionality has evolved to be a more inclusive feature that webmasters [...]
Google’s Realtime Search had a lot of promise. The only thing that hindered its ability to become a widely accepted feature on the web was Google’s inability to meet an agreement with Twitter on being able to access users’ tweets. The main component of Realtime Search was its ability to provide users with up to [...]
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Social media’s impact on search continues to impress online specialists all over the world. Harnessing the power of communication through social media and using it to create a more inclusive search world could be the key to creating a community that ultimately creates a user friendly experience that changes how we view the web. The [...]
