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Locating public records is one of the most popular search activities on the internet, and millions of people look for vital, historical, and other publicly registered documents every day online. Find a birth certificate, locate census records, track down land use documents, and much more with this ...
- Tuesday, 13 March 2018 02:04
- By: Logan Hochstetler
Click to viewIt's no surprise that the killer feature in Google's email offering, Gmail, is its search capability. Google's king of the web because it makes information on its billions of pages findable; likewise, Gmail makes the megabytes of messages that get pumped into your inbox every day manag...
- Monday, 12 March 2018 02:32
- By: Logan Hochstetler
With over one billion and two hundred websites online now, the Internet is rapidly transforming into an overcrowded place where people can basically find everything they need if they learn how to search. It’s brimming with a huge quantity of information and services that could be of use to litera...
- Monday, 12 March 2018 02:03
- By: Jennifer Levin
If you need to do a little bit of sleuthing about someone, the Web can be a fantastic resource. Track down an address or a phone number, find a long-lost school friend, or simply verify information with this list of the best six people search engines on the Web. All of these search engines are hy...
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- Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:18
- By: Issac Avila
Gmail’s a Google product, so of course, it has powerful search features. But some of Gmail’s search features are hidden and don’t appear in the Search Options pane. Learn Gmail’s search tricks to master your massive inbox. You can also create filters from any search you can perform. Filters ...
- Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:06
- By: Carol R. Venuti
The Twitter Archiver and Twitter Bots app fire each time a new tweet is found that match your search query. You can write simple search queries (like #Oscars) or more complex query (like obama min_retweets:10 filter:news) that uses one or more Twitter search operators. How to Search Twitter Li...
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- Friday, 09 March 2018 03:29
- By: Grace Irwin
I love YouTube. I use it for inspiration or to kill an idle hour (which I normally don’t have). I love the variety of user-generated content: different styles, topics and perspectives. I love it that YouTube is huge. But with the resource being enormous comes one issue: it is almost impossible to...
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- Friday, 09 March 2018 02:09
- By: Bridget Miller
When you search, do you find exactly what you’re looking for the first time? Have you ever used advanced search filters to find everything the engine knows about a specific subject or website, efficiently? If not, it’s time to raise your search skills. Search like a robot ninja with search engin...
- Thursday, 08 March 2018 02:23
- By: Edna Thomas
One tool shows how a site stacks up against the competition on mobile. The other aims to drive home the impact mobile speed can have on the bottom line. Google has focused on getting marketers and site owners to improve mobile site experiences for many years now. On Monday at Mobile World Congress ...
- Wednesday, 07 March 2018 02:18
- By: Jennifer Levin
You may have heard the term in passing before, the rumored-but-rarely-talked-about topic of the “deep web”. A web underneath the web, filled with petabytes of data and information that’s out of the reach of your standard Google, Bing, or Yahoo search bar. But what is the deep web exactly, and ...
- Monday, 05 March 2018 02:31
- By: Bridget Miller
Google has been the top search engine for years given its powerful reach across the world. This is mostly due to the massive database of indexed websites, relevancy of search result and the convenience it offers in terms of using the platform. Moreover, it is undeniable that the Google search engine...
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- Friday, 02 March 2018 05:22
- By: Logan Hochstetler
Google updates the search results features with an expanded featured snippet targeting broad, nuanced queries Google has been rolling out many new search features over the past few months related to images, featured snippets, and the knowledge graph. Today the search giant released another feat...
- Friday, 02 March 2018 01:36
- By: Grace Irwin
Google has updated the search results pages by adding breadcrumbs to the top of the page. The breadcrumbs are triggered by informational search queries and are accompanied by images. This search display update is a dramatic step away from how Google displays search results. The change is apparently ...
- Tuesday, 27 February 2018 02:26
- By: Bridget Miller
Google is rolling out a new report in Analytics which analyzes a website’s custom audiences. This appears to be a quiet rollout with no official announcement, though Google is notifying users upon logging into Analytics. Here is the notification that comes up for those who have access to the new r...
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- Monday, 26 February 2018 02:35
- By: William A. Woods
Google advanced search lets you cut through internet clutter – and there’s no shortage of clutter on the internet – to zero in on exactly the search results you are looking for. Google advanced search has applications for web users of all stripes, and especially for ecommerce entrepreneurs: S...
- Friday, 23 February 2018 05:53
- By: Barbara Larson
The fake news problem is anything but fake. It has flooded all social media platforms and remains an issue that many still believe shaped the results of the 2016 American election. Well, turns out that Microsoft’s Bing also had a fake news problem. One YouTube channel gamed the Microsoft Search en...
- Thursday, 22 February 2018 05:42
- By: James Gill
In a blog post titled, Toward a More Intelligent Search: Bing Multi-Perspective Answers, Bing announced they are now incorporating a technology often referred to as sentiment analysis into their version of what Google calls Featured Snippets. Sentiment Analysis is the ability to understand whether ...
- Thursday, 22 February 2018 05:22
- By: Grace Irwin
Learn more about how Google’s featured work, the variations and some of the challenges Google faces with these snippets. Google has published one of the most comprehensive explanations yet of their featured snippets in a post on the search blog. Featured snippets, in short, are the quick direct ...
- Wednesday, 21 February 2018 06:11
- By: Edna Thomas
How Top Stories Today gamed the system Over the course of the last several years, every major social platform has been plagued by fake news. Now Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has a fake news problem of its own. Because of how the search engine’s autofill feature works, people who visit Bing l...
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- Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03:16
- By: Corey Parker
Following Google’s removal of the “view image” button from its image search results last week, several users will move to other browsers like Microsoft’s Bing and Startpage that allow download of high-resolution images with a right-click, media reported. Google, after signing a multi-year gl...
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- Wednesday, 21 February 2018 02:20
- By: Bridget Miller
Google is the biggest search engine in the US, boasting a 75% share of the search market. With its simple user interface, the market leader delivers answers to search queries at the speed of light – all laid out clearly and sorted by relevance. The information you’re looking for doesn’t alway...
- Wednesday, 21 February 2018 01:57
- By: Anna K. Sasaki
Search multiple social networks at the same time on this free website What is it? A free search engine to help journalists find posts about certain topics on social networks.How is it of use to journalists? Social media is becoming an increasingly powerful channel for sourcing stories, but with th...
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- Monday, 19 February 2018 01:50
- By: Anthony Frank
After making a deal with Getty Images, Google has revamped some of their image search features and user experience. Google has removed the View Image button and the Search by Image feature when viewing an individual image within Google Image Search. Google announced this change on Twitter, saying: ...
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- Thursday, 15 February 2018 14:00
- By: Carol R. Venuti
In anticipation of the changes that will unfold in 2018, I recently wrote an article predicting the search engine optimization (SEO) trends that will be most important to address in the coming year. Among the trends I predicted was the continuing rise of voice search—the growing tendency for use...
- Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:38
- By: Alex Grey
The Scout browser is the creation of children’s smartphone maker Monqi Features of the new app include safe-search which blocks indecent content Remote access lets parents monitor youngster's online activity at any time The browser works with Monqi's existing suite of parental controls A web bro...
- Monday, 12 February 2018 05:02
- By: Grace Irwin
