Forbes
Video One of the first questions about Project Glass, the augmented-reality glasses that Google debuted in fine style this week with a skydiving stunt in San Francisco was whether we'd see ads plastered on the tiny screen in front of our faces. Google ...
Forbes
Google Strikes Deal Over 'Jewish' Search Suggestions
PC Magazine
Google's auto-complete search function can be a blessing or a curse, the company found out in April, when the Internet giant was sued by French anti-discrimination organizations.
Google & Ecommerce: 10 Things Business Owners Need to Know Before July
Search Engine Watch
Google Shopping Fifty percent of Google Product Search traffic will be switching to paid GoogleShopping by July 28. Online merchants who aren't ready for the switch will face some serious repercussions. Below we break it down and present all the ...
'Google Now' personal assistant represents search giant's answer to Siri
Apple Insider
Android's new voice search adds "cards" that resemble the custom user interfaces that Apple implemented with its own Siri voice-activated personal assistant. According to a side-by-side comparison of voice recognition queries on Google's and Apple's ...
Google's “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won't Notice
Search Engine Land
But Siri isn't really “voice search.” Siri is a version of “artificial intelligence” with a voice front end, provided by Nuance. Google's voice search is speech-to-text and (now) text-to-speech on top ofGoogle's Knowledge Graph and search index. There ...
Siri vs Google search in 1600-question street test
9 to 5 Mac
As noted by Phillip Elmer-DeWitt at Fortune, Apple analyst Gene Munster published a note to clients today that contained the results of a Siri vs. Google search 1600-question showdown. While it is not exactly a test of how well the companies' various ...
9 to 5 Mac
Minneapolis street test: Google gets a B+, Apple's Siri gets a D
Fortune (blog)
So when he wanted to know how Siri stacked up against a Google (GOOG) search, he (or his staff) asked an iPhone 1600 questions, 800 on the busy streets of Minneapolis, 800 in a quiet room. Piper Jaffray published the results Thursday in a note to ...
Groupon Exposes Customer Emails In Google Results…Again
TechCrunch
Screen shot 2012-06-29 at 06.47.30. A while back we wrote about a flaw in Groupon's email link encryption, which revealed the emails of some Groupon users when “addx” was added into a Google search of Groupon's site. We've been alerted that is still ...
How to use Google's search tools to get better results
Geek
29, 2012 - Google Search is one of the most commonly used online tools. It's so closely tied to daily web browsing that many people ... On the left sidebar, way down at the bottom, there's a single line of text that says “Show search tools” — click it ...
Google Said to Face U.S. Probe Over Motorola Patents
Bloomberg
A U.S. antitrust regulator is investigating whether Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility unit is honoring commitments made to license industry-standard technology for mobile and other devices on fair terms, three people familiar with the situation said.
Google Glass Team: 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm'
Wired News
Even though I followed Google's I/O Conference from across the country, the event made it obvious that a company created with a strict focus on search has become an omnivorous factory of tech products both hard and soft. Google now regards its ...
How Google Pulled Off Insane Project Glass Stunt Demo
PC Magazine
Probably because Google is the kind of company that likes to let us behind the curtain to see how the magic really works (to a certain point—you'd have an easier time persuading Coke to divulge its secret formula than getting Google to spill on its ...
Use Google Now with Caution, Security Experts Say
PCWorld
Google Now, the smart assistant in the latest upgrade of the Android operating system, draws an uneasiness among security experts evaluating the risks the search-based feature for mobile devices brings to businesses. Similar Articles: SXSW: Privacy ...
Mobile search major focus at Google I/O
Brafton
Google I/O featured major announcements about the future of search on smartphones and mobile SEO. ... As such, leveraging a content marketing strategy that focuses on mobile SEO best practices can help businesses rank well.Google's Pierre Farr ...
Brafton
Siri still can't match old-fashioned Google search, analyst says
BGR
Fortune reports that Piper Jaffray has conducted a little study comparing Siri and Google in terms of both query comprehension and response accuracy,
Google: PH ranks first in 'same sex' search
Inquirer.net (blog)
The Philippines may be a predominantly Catholic country, but that has not curbed the Filipinos' curiosity about same-sex marriage, which remains illegal in the country, the most recent “Insights” report by search giant Google showed.
1600 Question Test Shows How Bad Siri Really Is
Gizmodo
1600 Question Test Shows How Bad Siri Really Is Pitting Google search against Siri using a monster 1600-question test shows how useful Siri really is: not at all. Google answered correctly 86 percent of the time. Siri achieved just 68 percent accuracy ...
Can Google Now take on Apple's Siri and win?
Digitaltrends.com
Basically, Knowledge Graph is Google's effort at semantic search: It attempts to understand the intent behind a user's question and provide a direct answer by tapping into pre-compiled databases of information. (This is the same approach used by ...
Digitaltrends.com
Google: It's not just 'search' any more
San Francisco Chronicle
On Wednesday, we met Google the mature hardware maker, taking on Apple and Amazon (and to a lesser degree Samsung and other sometime partners) with its home-baked tablet and Apple TV-like media hub. [...] services allow businesses and research ...
San Francisco Chronicle
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Minneapolis street test: Google gets a B+, Apple's Siri gets a D – An analyst tests the personal assistant feature of iOS against Google's traditional search and finds the latter to be superior. Gene Munster says Siri must do at least as good asGoogle ...
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Google bans gun sales on US shopping center
Daily Caller
Gun shoppers begrudgingly give Bing a try. ... Google is banning the sale of weapons and ammunition within its shopping center, causing firearms owners to second guess their use of the search giant. The company announced on May 31 that it would be ...
Daily Caller
Will Google's Personal Assistant Be Creepy or Cool?
New York Times (blog)
Google's new personal assistant service, called Google Now, raises some interesting questions about the line between when tech is helpful and when it makes users uneasy. The service will do things like remind an Android owner that they have a lunch ...
Google Announces Offline Document Editing
Hot Hardware
Google is continuing to take advantage of its I/O conference to announce new features for many of its products. One of the most requested features for GoogleDocs is finally here: offline editing. With this new feature, you can now create and edit ...
Hot Hardware
How to Get YouTube Views from Google Rankings Topic of Digital Marketer Article
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
There are easy ways to skyrocket a video to the top of Google search results, and they are described in the latest Special Report by Digital Marketer. Known as the brains behind some of the most influential and innovative online marketing ideas of...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
In Google vs. Siri comparison, Siri left at a loss for words
allvoices
Piper Jaffray tech analyst Gene Munster conducted an exhaustive analysis on the accuracy of Siri's answers compared to Google's search results. The analysis rated Google with a B+ (86%) for accuracy of answers, while Siri scored a D (62%) for accuracy.
Siri Shows Increasing Promise, But Accuracy Falls Short of Google Text Searches
Mac Rumors
On the accuracy side, Google's 86% rating is derived from comScore data showing that Google generates 1.14 search result pages per search, suggesting that roughly 86% of time Google presents the data the user is looking for within the first few results ...
Mac Rumors
Apple's Siri Gets a 'D' Grade, Google Search Gets 'B+' in 1600 ...
By iPhoneHacks
Apple's Siri Gets a 'D' Grade, Google Search Gets 'B+' in 1600 Questions Test. ... Not surprisingly, Google's search came out on top, answering correctly 86% of the time, whereas Siri managed to answer only 68% correctly. Munster asked 800 ...
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The results are in: Google Search destroys Apple's Siri | TalkAndroid ...
By Robert Nazarian
tagged apple, Google. Every since Apple unveiled Siri, they tried to make us believe it was this amazing product that could never be wrong. Steve Jobs led us to believe it was as good if not better than Google search, and many people have ...
Android News, Rumours, and Updates
Siri's search accuracy graded as a D, Google text search gets a B+
By Christian Zibreg
Curious to figure out which is more accurate for searching, Apple's Siri or Google's traditionalsearch engine, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster pitted Siri's voice-activated search against Google'sold-fashioned text-based searching. He and his ...
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Video: Siri vs. New Google Voice Search – Droid Life
By Kellex
At the Google I/O keynote from day 1 (watch it here at the 20:00 minute mark), the Android team took the wraps off a new product called Google Now that was powered by a new version of VoiceSearch (our hands-on). During the demo of it, we ...
Droid Life
Random Test Reveals Google Text Searches Are More Accurate ...
By Gary Ng
Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray has published the results of an unscientific test to put Siri against Google text searches. iPhone 4S and new iPad users.
iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's...
How retailers are using content to combat Google Panda « Helium ...
By Anne Campbell
When the Google Panda algorithm update rolled out in February 2011, it had a significant impact on internet retailers, and many of them are still feeling the affects more than a year later. According to a recent survey by search engine ...
Helium Content Source
Google Cars - Search Engine Watch
By John Rampton
In the San Francisco Bay area, where I live, Google has quietly launched what is being referred to as Google Cars – a new addition to Google's comparison ads (those “Sponsored” ads appearing between the PPC ads and organic results).
Search Engine Watch
Siri Still Isn't As Accurate As Google's Text Search | iSmashPhone
By 8bitjay
apple-siri. A study from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster found that Siri's search isn't quite up to par with that of Google's when if comes to mobile. Given that Siri is still in beta, that it's likely to be part of the problem. Here's how the tests were ...
iSmashPhone: iDevices Tips, Tricks...
By 8bitjay
apple-siri. A study from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster found that Siri's search isn't quite up to par with that of Google's when if comes to mobile. Given that Siri is still in beta, that it's likely to be part of the problem. Here's how the tests were ...
iSmashPhone: iDevices Tips, Tricks...
What Small Business Owners Need to Know About Google's Updates
By Anchor Wave
Google named its two most recent updates, Penguin and Panda. ... Google is making a good-faith effort to change the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry for the better, by rewarding only organic, high-quality marketing tactics. To be ...
Anchor Wave Internet Solutions
Google Search On Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Vs Siri On iOS 6 ...It has taken a day or two, but now videos are beginning to crop up comparing Apple's Siri on ...
www.redmondpie.com/google-search-on-android-4.1-jelly-be...
Siri vs. Google Search (Jelly Bean) - YouTubeSiri vs. Google Search (Jelly Bean) Siri is how Apple persuades consumers to buy the ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDsOtdRtG0Q
Siri vs Google search in 1600-question street test | 9to5Google ...
While it is not exactly a test of how well the companies' various voice services stack up against one another (since Google Search queries were typed-in and not ...
9to5google.com/.../siri-vs-google-search-in-1600-question-str...
Google launches a MOOC for learning search « NeverEndingSearch
The folks at the Google booth here at ISTE, just led me to their new free online searching course. Registration for Power Searching with Google, a short course ...
blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/.../google-launches-a-mooc-for...
Siri still can't match old-fashioned Google search, analyst says ...
From Yahoo! News: Fortune reports that Piper Jaffray has conducted a little study comparing Siri and Google in terms of both query comprehension and ...
news.yahoo.com/siri-still-t-match-old-fashioned-google-search...
Video: Google Search vs. Siri, and the winner is.. | DroidMatters.comJohn Rettinger of Techno Buffalo has made a video comparing Google'sVoice Search and ...
www.droidmatters.com/.../video-google-search-vs-siri-and-the...
Siri vs. Google Search: Test Shows iPhone Assistant Isn't A Google ...
Siri might be going to summer school. Piper Jaffray analyst and noted Apple fanatic Gene Munster decided to pit Siri against Google's web search in a supreme ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../siri-vs-google-search-test_n_163...
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How to Find Your Previous Google Search Queries [Quicktip]
Google has been the search engine of choice for many of your burning (and not so burning) questions. Preference for it is so popular, that whenever you ask.
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