Real-Time Search Battle: Twitter vs Facebook

Twitter and Facebook, two of the web’s top social networks, are aiming to be the number one player in real-time search. About a year ago, Twitter acquired real-time search engine Summize, a search engine that indexes tweets. Shortly after the Summize acquisition Twitter rolled out Twitter Search and the era of real-time search started. Since […]

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The Internet’s Most Dangerous Search Engine Terms

According to a recent CNN article, people who search online for phrases like “song lyrics” or “free” are engaging in risky search engine behavior. Along with “free music downloads”, these search terms put 20 percent of search engine users in danger of landing on sites that push malicious software, known as “malware.” A research report […]

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Topsy.com – Search Social Network Conversations In Real-Time

Topsy is a new social network search engine that searches conversations from online web 2.0 communities and returns search results based on the timely topical “chatter” that occurs on those communities every minute. Some of the social networks and online communities that Topsy takes its search results from are Twitter, blogs, Flickr, Digg, Yelp, Identica […]

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Can WolframAlpha Search Engine Live Up To Its Hype?

There is not doubt that the anticipated launch of the WolframAlpha search engine has created quite a buzz in the media, but we will have to wait and see if the new search engine lives up to the hype. The WolframAlpha search engine is the brain child of Dr. Stephen Wolfram, an award winning physicist. […]

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‘Search Me’ – The Visual Search Engine

SearchMe.com is a new visual search engine that returns a visual display of search engine results for users that are grouped by category. The Search Me search engine is based around categories and visual presentation, so that users can view web pages before they visit them. Topic categories are displayed that relate to your query […]

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