Yesterday we covered about how Twitter and Google are slap fighting based on Google's new social search 2.0 release on Tuesday which primarily indexes more of Google's own Google+ social network and shows it within the top results. Twitter’s General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray provides apparently damning evidence for why Search+ is unfair and how Google+ content is being promoted instead of the most relevant results. In his tweet, (picture above) he searches for World Wrestling Entertainment Continue Reading

Search means different things to many. Sometimes that means results from the public web, but sometimes it means your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These wonderful people and this rich personal content is currently missing from your search experience. Search is still limited to a universe of webpages created publicly, mostly by people you’ve never met. Search is pretty amazing at finding that one needle in a haystack of billions of webpages, images, videos, Continue Reading

Is this really the Google we know? Gmail having problems since the past 7 months, then Google Apps, and now recently the newly announced Google social search to compete with the Microsoft Bing/Facebook/Twitter search deal is also down. Google gave a response with an email to Tech Social news publisher, Mashable: The Google Social Search experiment is temporarily down. We are working on it and expect to restore access sometime Monday or Tuesday I hope so that the service comes back up again soon, Continue Reading

Just a couple of day's ago we covered up the new ASK.com “Who Wants a Deal? We Do, We Do!” commercials. Yes they were good indeed. But only a few days after IAC, the company behind Ask.com  has mentioned that they would be open to a sale of Ask.com search engine.   Now that a significant use , given that Microsoft Bing and Yahoo recently partnered up for a Single Search engine against Google. Ask.com currently has 4% market share, and most of its’ revenue is generated through Continue Reading

There is a lot of content on the web from blogs to wikis to tweets but organization and search from a single platform is cumbersome. Google has just released an experiment on Google Labs called Google Social Search that helps you find more relevant public content from your broader social circle.   Now with Social Search, Google finds relevant public content from your friends and contacts and highlights it for you at the bottom of your search results.   So how will it work, as it Continue Reading