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More Punctuation Searching at Google
Somehow I missed the announcement last month from Google which included a note that Google has started indexing more punctuation marks. Based on this announcement, it looks like we can start...
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Google Scholar Update in Progress
Google Scholar has announced an update that brings Scholar more in line with other Google properties. Google Scholar is still not linked from the main Google page, but now (if you are getting the new...
View ArticleThe ‘New Bing’: Now Searching With Facebook
Interested in the New Bing and unable to see it or would you just like a quick overview, now that it is supposed to be available to all U.S. users? See my NewsBreak on the New Bing. While the Facebook...
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New Image Filters: Animations & Transparency
After so many Google features and products have gone to the Google Graveyard, it is nice to see new search features made available. Yesterday, Google announced on G+ that two new image search filters...
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Bing Background
I am not sure if this is a Bing user interface (UI) experiment or just some strange Chrome malfunction, but for several days in Chrome (only) on my home computer (only) the Bing search results page...
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Bing’s Updated Date Searching
Bing has had date searching available for some time now, but it had been frustrating to use since the date limit options did not always show up at the top of the search results page. For my searching,...
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GoogleUI Experiments: Lost Preview, Embedded Site Search, & Lost Black Bar
I have seen reports of several interesting Google user interface (UI) experiments in the last few weeks. Most recently is one the removes the page previews (I wonder how many searchers really ever use...
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Searcher Behavior
A new study from iAquire and SurveyMonkey highlights searcher behavior — not professional searchers but the general web searchers. While the focus is on marketing for retail sites, it has some useful...
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New Google UI Experiment: Black Bar to Apps
Now that I am no longer seeing the lost preview Google user interface (UI) experiment in Firefox (and I saw that for several weeks), I am now seeing a different on in Chrome. This is another experiment...
View ArticleGoogle Removes Translated Pages Search Tool
Yet more advanced search features are being killed off by Google. With the move of the search tools from the left margin to the top, and requiring an extra click to get to most of them, Google has been...
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