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Google announced an exciting new change coming to the search engine which will bring tons of factual results to the forefront of Google searches. The new search feature is called the Knowledge Graph, which will tap into database facts to present relevant snippets of information based on your searches.
Google created a new game on it’s social network called A Google A Day, which is a daily search puzzle that is solved using nothing but Google Search to find the answers. It’s a clever way to get users to challenge themselves, and also improve your Google Search skills by learning the best ways to use the search engine.
In a recent report by Eugene Volokh, which was commissioned by Google, he claims that Google Search results deserve the same free speech rights as articles that appear in newspapers and news websites, for example the New York Times.
If you have your own blog, maybe it’s on Tumblr since the social blogging service is so popular these days, and you want to track your traffic, I highly recommend Google Analytics. It’s a flexible, detailed and a free traffic reporting tool by Google.
There is a new surveillance system that a Japanese company has developed that may change life as we know it. I am saying that because it’s that revolutionary. Facial recognition software has been in the making for years now, with many advances recently. I am sure you have seen it in movies too; I am thinking of Minority Report as one example of course. There are also examples here and here that just go to show this type of tech is coming along fast.
Now that Google has officially shut down Google Health, they still wanted a way to help users with health related issues. Health is one of the top three biggest topics online (Health, Games & Auto). Google has also mined enough data to know that users that search for health symptoms also follow those up with searches for related health conditions.
As part of a NY Times post on the updated and new premium services for Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine, they let out a tidbit of information that 25% of all searches on the search engine derive from Siri. Siri as you know is the Apple intelligent voice assistant which just debuted with the iPhone 4S a few months ago.
Google Plus is again getting another boost from Google, this time injecting Google Plus directly into the Google Search results page. If you go to the Google home page, they have a link for Introducing Search plus Your World. Now when searching on Google, as long as you have a Google Plus account and your logged in, your search results will show related results from people in your Google Plus circles who may have +1’d content or shared content in relation to what your searching for.
When creating your business website, you want to make sure it’s not like other sites. You don’t want to create something generic that will be forgotten as soon as the viewer leaves the site. Instead, you should make sure they see something interesting that will keep them coming back and encourage them to tell others about the site. With the right strategy, you can easily create a website that promotes your business and generates positive word of mouth that will draw in many new customers.
This year for Google Search is pretty interesting. From the newest gadgets to shocking news events, Google breaks down the billions of searches in 2011 and puts it all together for us. Of the Top 10 searches of the year, each one is broken down into detail by Google in the Zeitgeist 2011: How the World Searched.
Google’s main goal for search is to get end user’s to the answer their looking for as quickly and seamlessly as possible. In the evolution of Google Search, this hasn’t always been the case especially the early infancy of Google.
Google Plus just opened up brand pages to the general public. Now if you wish, you can create a brand page for your business, website, store, restaurant or what have you. Brand pages have a “page” verification badge at the top that identifies them as a brand page. They also have a +1 button right under the default profile image for easy sharing and a ‘share this page’ for direct sharing into your circles.
Today is Google’s birthday as it turns 13 yrs old. In other words, Google was founded 13 yrs ago by Larry Page and Sergey Brin with the core business model of being a search engine. In the past 13 yrs, Google has exploded into a monstrosity of a company and is synonymous with search and innovation in the technology corridor ranking up there in the presence of Apple, Microsoft and most recently Facebook.
Google Search consists of several hundred ‘signals’ in their search algorithm and in a new video from Google, they say they change and update it every day, sometimes almost twice over. That is a tremendous amount of work that goes into providing the best search results possible.
Inspired by what happens when you search “why” on Aol, I decided, why not see what other search engines come back with when searching “why”. It’s not fun to just make fun of Aol only, right? Let’s see how the results stack up.
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