If you haven’t attended one, I’m sure you’ve heard of them – those business meetings where everyone sits around a long table and stares blankly, their mouths agape, at the head of the table for a couple hours. You may feel brain dead after a business meeting, and what’s funny is – they can actually [...]
Feb 6
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 [...]
Feb 3
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 [...]
Feb 3
Yes, the American Civil Liberties Union is suing a Washington state library for not having online access to pornography. At the Wenatchee public library in Wanatchee, Washington, anyone who logs on to a library computer and types “porn” into the computer’s search engine will be thoroughly disappointed. The computer will conduct the search as if [...]
Jan 31
Over the past few months, there’s been quite a SOPA controversy. In case you never looked into it, SOPA is short for “Stop Online Piracy Act.” It was introduced so that the U.S. government could have more control over online trafficking of copyrighted materials. In short, you can call it an Internet death penalty. On [...]
Aug 15
Bing is constantly evolving in order to attract new users, and hopefully sway the search engine popularity paradigm. Recently, Bing announced that it will be improving its online shopping functionality by adding a few new features, which will simplify the shopping experience for its users, saving them time and hassle while they search the web. [...]
Aug 11
Reese Richman LLP, a law firm based in New York City, brought about a lawsuit that accuses several Internet service providers of affiliate fraud. The claim is that these well-known Internet service providers hijacked consumer search results to get information on affiliate traffic and income. Reese Richman himself brought about the lawsuit, which gives much [...]
Aug 9
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 [...]
Aug 5
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 [...]
Aug 3
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, [...]
