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Yahoo has announced that it is blocking sex searches for all those on the Indian subcontinent. Its decision came after a similar statement from Microsoft’s Bling, er, Bing last week.   Latest reports suggest that Yahoo search engine, Microsoft’s Bing search engine, and Flickr, recently made alteration to their setting by which Indian users will not be able to switch off the safe-search facility. Same type of blockage is also expected in READ MORE...

While many of us might be inspired by how Pranav Mistry’s Sixth Sense technology might change the world, but Google is already a step ahead. Today at their Search Event in Mountain View, Google launched a new Google Labs project dubbed as: “Google Goggles”. So what is it? It is as simple as this, you point at a thing, take a snap, you can search instantaneously on the web using Google using image recognition. Currently an android app is READ MORE...

Well today, when I saw that the likes of Google, buying premium text links on its primal rival, Microsoft Bing, I was astonished. The fact of the matter was when I searched for U2 songs on Bing, the first result within sponsored links that came up was, www.Google.com/Music New expanded search results when you search for musicians on Google! Look at the top link in the above image. You can search for any music band and add the term songs to it. READ MORE...

According to ComScore and qSearch, Microsoft’s retaliation against Google search, Bing has gained significant market share reaching out close to 10% market share of U.S. searches, thats 2 large points in five months. Clearly Microsoft must be doing something right. The good part coming from it’s recent deals with twitter and Facebook and then going on towards nutritional data search integration with Wolfram Alpha. The loser here is of READ MORE...

Every day we all search and look fro music, particularly on Google, for our favorite artists, find that new album or iconic song etc. But we keep on searching it again and again browsing many pages here and there. An when we find it we don’t get to download it nor preview it in some sort of way. But wait Google brings a solution to you. Today, Google Unveils a new search feature that does just that by enabling you to search and more easily READ MORE...

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 READ MORE...

Well just yesterday we covered about a new startup called Gazopa, which had pretty search for similar images, not only that with a cool FREE iPhone app as well to help you instantly search with your snap taken from the phone. And now Google has finally unveiled and graduated it’s own “Similar Search” towards the masses. The similar images feature would be available on Google Image search. All you have to do is click "Find similar READ MORE...

  When searching for images mostly all of us, look for something we have in mind or have previously seen somewhere. We often look for similar images representing similar things as per required, but at the moment searching similar images via normal search engines is a painful ask.   And just for that Gazopa, beta has launched today. Gazopa is a search engine that uses features from an image to retrieve similar images. You can now upload READ MORE...

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 READ MORE...

One thing I have to compliment Microsoft is fro their advertising campaigns. They always make something so brilliant, so awesome that you cant ignore. Look at the ads for the brand new Windows 7 campaign. No wonder apple took a full swing at windows 7 with those ad’s. Today Microsoft launched its new Bing ads for the Australian market, and no wonder these commercials rock. So without further ado… I am sure with the boom of READ MORE...

I loved it when Google brought out the new artist themes in chrome a couple weeks back. Not only now you have personalization but beauty as well. Now officially with feedback from people, Google has come out with superb videos regarding the “Artist in you”. So without Further ado…   One image I got from all of this was that Google Chrome is really turning out to be the next IE. Please leave us your comments… READ MORE...

www.Ask.com, yes it does exist for all of you who only know bing and Google as the only search engines on the planet. Although not as powerful or good on the results, Ask.com has a quite nifty user Interface.   Today Ask.com has released some commercials, that are quite funny and straight forward for their message. “Who wants a deal”. Clearly ask.com is following Microsoft Bing’s direction using the cash back program, where shoppers save READ MORE...

This is hot and FRESH. We all know Sir Tim Berners Lee, the inventor founder of the WWW, yes the world wide web. News is in that he has joined Twitter, the worlds most popular micro blogging site today.   Sir Lee in a British computer scientist, engineer and MIT professor and a huge supporter of the social web. He signed up with twitter yesterday just before the Web 2.0 summit. Apart from being the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) director he is READ MORE...

  As we cover the event of Windows 7 launch today, we would like to tell you that, just yesterday Microsoft inked a deal with Twitter and facebook, with its Bing search engine. The deal now incorporates tweets and facebook status updates from public profiles and thus makes the search engine battle more fierce between Google and Microsoft. Today at the  Web 2.0 Bing announced that working with those clever birds over at Twitter, they now have READ MORE...

  These day’s one of the most important thing is being updated, and search engines or may we call it “status updates” engines are getting released everyday. From tweetmeme.com which searches fro fresh twitter updates to this one, the goal is simple, gather content and gather it at one place.   But what i like about Wowd is this that, it not only gathers data by itself, it has toolbar just like digg and stumble upon that helps site READ MORE...

  Remember Wolfram Alpha, Yes the  semantic search engine everybody thought could take down Google is at it again. Today it is announcing its Homework Day, a live interactive web event starting at noon CDT on Wednesday, October 21, 2009. This event is dedicated to show how Wolfram Alpha could be a powerful new discovery and learning tool for students, parents, and educators. Some of the highlights for Homework Day, are: * Several READ MORE...