To understand the web even better and provide users with richer search experience, Google has acquired yet another startup “Metaweb” to help build smarter and more connected Internet. Today, Google on its blog declared that the acquisition is to improve search and make the web richer and more meaningful for everyone. With this acquisition, it can quickly deliver you relevant information right on its search page. Metaweb Technologies was founded in 2005, to make the internet more connected. Let’s hear from the company in their own words about their work. “We have ...

Have you ever heard of a name “DuckDuckGo”? If it’s the first time then you may find the name little childish, and may get scary with the name itself, but it is a pretty interesting search engine. If you have been facing problem in searching exactly what you are looking for, or unable to get to the desired resource on the web from the results of Google search then you might be looking for some alternatives or learning some tips and tricks to improve your Google search skills. DuckDuckGo is ...

Google has now finally come up with all new and much more colorful design interface although till time its on google.com address only and not for all its country specific servers such as Google.co.in. After a big time of a decade Google has made drastic changes in its design interface, which everyone is talking about - more glossy and colorful Logo, eye-catching blue search buttons and new left sidebar with extra search filters. Google has included the time-line search which was accessible in labs earlier and other search filters such as ...

Ask.com had a new launched site just a month back called Ask.com/deals, which is nothing more than a shopping aggregator site to find and buy best bargained products online. Now for this Holiday season and with Halloween coming-up, Ask.com come up with new advertising model to propagate its product Ask deals. Askdeals.com is a new microsite that show some videos of users which actually a new interactive way of viral marketing where users can record their own videos with ask jingle/tune in background and which would be shown on Askdeal microsite ...

Microsoft today now revealed its buzzing search engine Bing's next offshoot - Bing Travel, it has flight and hotel search, airfare price predictions, travel news and community, travel deals, and more. Added to this, starting today itself, people searching on Bing search engine for hotels in a given city will get Bing Travel Instant Answers included directly in their search results, featuring the Rate Indicator, let them choose hotels etc. Moreover, from now onwards Microsoft acquired Farecast, previously farecast.live.com and MSN Travel will be entertained through Bing travel only. Farecast has been ...

Below is the list of new and few good Search engines or portals that serve search results in quite different way or in a different niche and that could be quite worthy to use in conjunction with major search engines. DeepDyve - This is latest search engine which don't want to call itself as just another search engine and claim to provide rich, relevant search results along with professional, high-caliber sources. Though require sign-in, I find it very useful when you want just relevant results in short time. Viewzi - This is ...

SnappyFingers, a web startup from Bangalore is a Question and Answer search engine. It crawls and indexes FAQs spread across the Internet, and provides search results in a easy to view Question/Answer format. While most visitors use the site for finding answers, few have also found it to be valuable in conducting research. The site is in beta, and has a database of 3 million questions, UI is pretty good and stand firm when it comes to usability, user friendliness and search results are just relevant and seems at this initial ...