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Bing Search Gets Handy Tools as Microsoft Continues to Invest

By Geoff Spick  |  Thursday September 22, 2011   

Bing Search Gets Handy Tools as MIcrosoft Continues to InvestWith news that Microsoft has spent US$ 5.5 billion on its Bing search engine, those using its new 'action buttons' might wonder where the money has gone.

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Google Sees Stars, Personalizes Search with Fun Feature

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Thursday March 4, 2010   

This week Google added a new feature to their Search functionality and it is oh-so-handy.  

Basically, it’s the stars you use to differentiate messages in Gmail, but now you can use them to favorite search results (just like Tweets!). Simply click the star marker on any search result or map, and the next time you perform a search, your relevant starred items will appear in a list right at the top of your results:

 

google_stars.JPGGoogle Stars in Search 

Google says that Stars--which also sync with Google Bookmarks and Google Toolbar--will replace Big G's SearchWiki service. Never heard of it? Understandable; it seems hardly anyone uses it anyway. 

"In our testing, we learned that people really liked the idea of marking a website for future reference, but they didn't like changing the order of Google's organic search results," wrote Cedric Dupont, Product Manager and Matthew Watson, Software Engineer, on Google's official blog.  With stars, we've created a lightweight and flexible way for people to mark and rediscover web content.

Though Stars works with Google Bookmarks, users can still "favorite" things instead of bookmarking them, providing yet another example of a Google lock-in system, being that you can take your bookmarks to another search engine, but you can't take your Google Stars with you

As with most of G's features, Stars for Google Search and Maps will be rolled out in stages, so keep an eye out. 

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Google Blog Search Gets New Look and Functionality

By James Mowery  |  Thursday October 2, 2008   

Those of you who love technology have probably heard of a web site called Techmeme. Well, say “bye” to Techmeme and say “hello” to the revamped Google Blog Search.

Google Blog Search has been long overdue for an upgrade, and now, when visiting Google Blog Search, users will be presented with some of the hottest content around the blogosphere in a number of categories. Being on the front page of Digg suddenly seems less impressive.

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