January 22, 2012 / Chetan Asher
Search giant fights charges of favoritism and breach of privacy
Google’s popularity revolves around its ability to let surfers find the right webpages. With the advent of social web, wherein…
January 17, 2012 / Chetan Asher
Pros and cons of the ‘Search plus Your World’ service
Google’s new weapon in its tussle with Facebook for dominance of the Web has drawn circumspect reactions. It’s step to…
January 16, 2012 / Chetan Asher
Google makes search more social and more personal.
For Google, the bet lies on ‘personal’ aspect of search. The company now claims to explore your very own world,…
January 14, 2012 / Chetan Asher
Google Chrome gets user-friendly, projects power of the Web
To stay ahead of the competition, Google Chrome is taking a number of steps to improve its user-experience. For this,…
January 12, 2012 / Chetan Asher
Google’s foray in travel upsets industry players
Once content with merely delivering most comprehensive answers to search queries from users, the 13-year-old search giant is increasingly trying…
December 13, 2011 / Chetan Asher
How does Google deal with ‘official’ content removal requests?
Google has complied with roughly two-thirds of the total requests to remove ‘undesired’ content that were made by the government…
November 25, 2011 / Chetan Asher
Making human editors and algorithms work together for ‘real’ search data
The algorithms, which surface content for users on sites like Facebook and Google, are made possible by modern programming. But…
November 10, 2011 / Chetan Asher
Changes to Google search to make it more user-friendly
Google’s latest algorithm change takes a cue from its Web indexing system introduced in 2010, known as Caffeine, which lets…
November 9, 2011 / Chetan Asher
The thought and process behind changes to Google search algorithms
Any smaller or major changes to Google algorithms are done only after thorough quality evaluation. A typical change of such…
November 8, 2011 / Chetan Asher
Search major strives to provide more recent, relevant results
Google has unveiled a set of improvements in its powerful search algorithm. The changes are aimed at helping it better…
July 5, 2011 / Chetan Asher
‘Me, Myself and I’ tool to manage your online identity
Primarily to protect your personal reputation, which is equally critical to maintaining your business credibility, you may set up search…