Archive for the 'Search Engines' Category

Yahoo! Confuses Lucy Liu With Liu Yifei

I did a search on Liu Yifei at Yahoo! today and here is what I found: This kind of mistake is very common with image search engines and I love to spot them.  The name of the image is correctly named as “lucy_liu.jpg” and the article was written about Lucy Liu. But why had Yahoo! mistaken Lucy [...]

Google Government Data & Removal Requests Tool

Google regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from its services, or provide information about users of its services and products. Between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, Singapore made 62 data requests and less than 10 removal requests. 50% of removal requests were fully or partially complied with. [...]

Google Would Love To Have This Book Scanner

A scanner that is able to scan entire books in minutes. Perfect tool for Google Books.

Google Reported Net Income Of US$1.96 Billion For First Quarter 2010

Google’s net income in the first quarter of 2010 was US$1.96 billion, compared to $1.42 billion in the first quarter of 2009.

Site Speed Is Important For Web Search Ranking

Google is obsessed with site speed. That is why the speed of a website relative to another related website is now taken into account by Google’s search ranking algorithm.  Google launched this change a few weeks back after rigorous testing. While site speed is a new signal, it doesn’t carry as much weight as the relevance of a [...]