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Google Launches Music-Specific Search Result Pages (GOOG)
Source: businessinsider.com

Google (GOOG) and various online music websites announced a partnership yesterday to provide a better search experience for users looking up music related information.

Google Adds New Options To Make Search More Timely, Less Spammy, And More Personal
Source: TechCrunch

Maybe it has something to do with competition from Bing, but all of a sudden Google is really interested in guided search. Last May, it launched search options in the left-hand column of the results page which let you filter results by type, time, and other criteria.

Anchors Away! Google Now Has Search Results Within Search Results
Source: TechCrunch

It's mildly annoying when I'm searching for something specific and Google returns results that are led by a huge overview page like the ones found on Wikipedia.

Bing Leapfrogs Yahoo Search ... Again
Source: TechCrunch

New stats from monitoring service StatCounter suggest that for the second time since its launch, Microsoft's Bing has surpassed Yahoo Search as the second most used search engine in the United States.

When It Comes To Search Trends, Google Is Lagging Behind Bing
Source: TechCrunch

As Microsoft tries to take away market share from Google with its new search engine, Bing, it is battling Google feature by feature. One feature where Microsoft seems to be edging out Google is with displaying recent search trends.

Can you live without Google?
Source: The Times

In the space of a single decade, internet search has changed the way we look at the world beyond recognition. Google has become our binoculars and our window on to the net.

Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search?
Source: TechCrunch

Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing, Microsoft's new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.

Palin beats Obama in Google search popularity contest
Source: itwire.com

Ever wondered if other people are searching for the same stuff as you? Of course you have, which is why everyone loves it when Google reveals who has been searching for what and where during 2008. Let's go around the world in 80 searches.

1 in 5 Employers Use Web, Social Networks to Research Job Applicants; 1/3 Dropped from Contention Afterwards
Source: Yahoo! Tech - Daily Features

... A new study reveals that one in five hiring managers utilize the Web and social networks to screen new potential applicants.

How to Find Out Anything: The Invisible Internet
Source: MSN

Only once did I stump a librarian (it was one of the questions above). But if librarians were my secret, what was theirs? I asked my local librarian Lisa Dunseth and she said, "Nowadays? The Internet."

Google, Yahoo spiders can now crawl through Flash sites
Source: Ars Technica

As anyone who has had the pleasure of doing web design and development through marketing agencies knows, Flash tends to be wildly popular among clients and wildly unpopular among, well, pretty much everyone else.

12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert
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....If you're like me, you probably use Google many times a day. But, chances are, unless you are a technology geek, you probably still use Google in its simplest form.

Google Unveiling Gphone Plan In 2 Weeks, Wants to Change Cellphone Industry
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"Google-powered phones will come already configured with a bundle of the most popular Google services, such Google search, Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail. But that would just be the beginning..."

Ads Target Your Cell Phone
Source: PC World

Yahoo, for example, has a suite of mobile services and applications called Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, while Google offers mobile versions of several services, including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Picasa, Blogger and search.

Google helps merchants in optimizing product feeds

Google is getting in touch with merchants to optimize their Google Base feeds. It seems to be a good news for merchants to drive free traffic from google. Read more here, the actual email from Google...

Google Removes "Supplemental Results" Tag
Source: earnersblog.com

The changes we make must focus on improving the search experience for our users. Since 2006, we've completely overhauled the system that crawls and indexes supplemental results. The current system provides deeper and more continuous indexing.

Some Great Googling Tips

You can search any site and files of any type you want through google. I wrote this article after reading a similar link on some other site reagrding searching rapidshare through google.

Non standart use Web 2.0 services!
Source: the-getting-things-done.blogspot.com

It is posts about similar, not ordinary decisions. As you understand services much, also it is a lot of applications, that is why we will describe pair нестандартніх examples of use of services. Besides new interesting applications appear regularly enough.

Google Book Search Courts Controversy Again
Source: Fast Company

In 1995 Bill Gates publicly remarked that Microsoft had been caught napping at the rise of the Internet.

Top 10 Greasemonkey Scripts For Google Products - Gmail, Search, Reader And More
Source: onetipaday.com

Customise Gmail, Google Search, Google Reader, Google Maps etc like they're going out of fashion. Great compilation of the best Greasemonkey scripts for Google products.

Google Image Labeler: play a game to strengthen search results
Source: Google

Welcome to Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results.

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