Did it ever cross your mind on how a live search can be done? This pertains to a kind of search where search results will appear instantly as you type the term. This is all possible with Bing’s New API.
As some people have questioned the possibility of Bing replacing Google, well here is an answer. Bing with its new live search that utilizes JQuery and JSON equals an amazing search experience.
After Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft regarding the search outsourcing, Yahoo is still making news in proving that they still in online search circle. Coming to its users, Yahoo offers new user interface changes to its search results.
One thing noticeable of these changes is Yahoo’s three-column design template. Actually, this isn’t the first time for a search company to offer three-column search page. In June 2007, Ask 3D introduced this kind of template but decided to pull it out after a year. Early in May, Google released the same template through the feature ‘Show Option.’ And on the last weeks of May, Bing offered their own three-column design.
Also featured on this Yahoo’s latest design, its left-most column is where you can find other add-ons such as search applications, site filters, data filters and assistance.
The Google feature ‘Show More Results’ is a cool thing similar to Yahoo’s newest ‘Site Filters.’ Yahoo’s version is more kind of consistent and is easier to find on the search page.
Also, Yahoo offers results from social network sites which is a pretty helpful piece of add-on. The ‘Search Assist’ feature help users to refine their searches. ‘Real Concepts’, another added feature of Yahoo’s newest template, uses the concept of drill down to provide more helpful results.
Another cool application is Yahoo’s calculator. Of course, the site offered this before but this time, it offers an actual image of the calculator that lets you do the mathematics like the usual. Plus, the Magic Eight Ball and the new Search Pad makes the site more user-friendly.
To continuously gain more profit from YouTube, Google finally extends the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) to other people.
In a recently released report from Google, they explained that they are offering a revenue-sharing deal with people who has videos gaining popularity on YouTube. In this way, its like Google is offering a win-win solution to both YouTube and its users.
According to the said report, Google will send out emails regarding the ‘Enable Revenue Sharing’ message next to their videos the users videos. Again, this is only applicable to those who have uploaded popular videos on YouTube in a condition that the number of views are accurate, frequency of the video being popular and its compliance with the site’s Terms of Service.
This project is said to boost YouTube’s revenues as its users will now start campaigning for their own videos. Though YouTube is one of the popular sites in the US, after Google’s acquisition to the site, it is expecting to gain back its $1.65 billion stock deal within the three years.. Hoping for a positive result, Google said that these will promote YouTube well to more users and visitors.
On its quest to provide a more reliable traffic update thru its own service – Google Map, Google recently announce that they are using location-enabled mobile phones to access real-time traffic data.
Using Google Map’s My Location, users send anonymous data thru their GPS-enabled phones to Google describing their speed in moving in a given area. By combining these bits of data with others, Google provide these information back to users to inform the updated traffic layers.
In this way, Google needs user’s cooperation to get accurate data though it didn’t require much effort. Google said that users will just have to turn on their Google Maps before driving and as more people participate on this data transmission, a more accurate traffic report will result.
One catch on this is the users privacy. With this, Google assured that all information sent to Google thru this process will remain anonymous and will permanently delete the data once captured for traffic update purposes.
Also, Google said that this service will be available not only to iPhone and iPod Touch users but also to other smartphone platforms.
Do you handle a site in Lithuanian, Latvian or Ukrainian? Then you should rejoice because you can now have Adsense into your sites. If you have not applied for an account, now would be the right time. Get those blogs up and get the content rolling and get your Adsense account now.
To do this, simply visit Adsense at adsense.google.com and apply for an account. When approved all you need to do is generate an ad code and place it on your site and Adsense will immediately populate it with relevant ads. Adsense is one of the greatest ways to monetize a site and it is working for both beginners and experts.
The complaint on misleading ads has always existed. Some ads are formatted in such a way that it will provide real information only to find out that it leads to a useless website. This happens when the titles and descriptions of ads are misleading and the owner of the website advertised is merely concerned about hits.
With this concern, a member of Webmasterworld thought about having information show up as a person hovers over the text link. This will give the person enough time to think if the site is really worth the visit.
My problem with that is that advertising is meant to lure or bait people. Not in a bad way, but the idea is to create interest and then have people take a look. Words are formatted in such a way as to encourage interest. If more information about the site is going to be shown in the mouse over, it will only be formatted in such a way as to reinforce the original ad. So it is a pretty useless idea if you will ask me.
As Bing has been developing some new ways to capture the audience, Google will not be left behind. They are also working in their rooms to create new applications that will capture their market. One such application is Google Wave.
In this age, multitasking has been second nature to us. In fact, having all things in one secure place is better than having them in multiple areas. This is what Google Wave will do. They will integrate all the important communication and documents in one place.
When I saw the preview, it reminds me a lot of Google apps. It is like creating a place in your browser where everything is integrated. But Google Wave is so much more. It can let people communicate and work together while sharing important texts, photos, videos and more.
The goal of Google wave is common workspace. Online jobs are normal nowadays and projects must be collaborated on an online setting. Google wave does just that. But this does not mean that you should also be online for the wave can rewind back so you can see what has happened. Like Google Docs, editing is done in real time so participants can easily communicate and tell the others what they think. It is a very convenient tools for different types of projects.
The world’s most famous social site is facing criticism in Canada. Facebook, being the most successful networking website that provides various features for its users to enjoy such as millions of applications, faces the Canadian Law – the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
The investigation came upon request last year after a group from the University of Ottawa called The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic to look of Facebook’s privacy policies.
Anne-Marie Hayden, spokesperson for Canada’s privacy commission, said that Facebook was doing something to address this concern upon request of the Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart to the company to submit proposal and timeline regarding their policies.
The five-year-old Canadian act affects Facebook’s almost 12 million users from Canada since the company keeps user’s personal information indefinitely, even if they closed their accounts on the said website.
To address the said problems, Stoddart suggested that Facebook should clarify its privacy policies, to make it easier for Canadian users to remove their profiles and to curb the amount of personal information that Facebook collects from its users. Giving the company a 30-day period to implement the suggestions, Facebook said that in order not to face the same liabilities in the future, they will also introduce a number of new features addressing privacy concerns.