Search Engines

Google+ in the UK

July 1, 2011

Wow. Busy day yesterday for Google here in the UK and from talking to friends in the US and Australia a big day there as well.
Google+ is currently in a field trial here in the UK
The new Google+ UK Field Trial has rolled out and is very interesting. It is a Facebookesque system that provides [...]

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Google Real Time Search

December 8, 2009

Yesterday 7th December, Google released it’s real time search results. As Google says in the announcement on their blog
“Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, [...]

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New top search Engine from Microsoft Bing

June 17, 2009

Bing was launched earlier this month by Microsoft. It is an attempt to compete with Google and whilst Google are taking the launch very seriously (Microsoft is rumoured to be spending $100 million on advertising the launch), the consensus for the UK launch is that Microsoft have made a mistake launching it in the UK [...]

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