Tag Archives: Google Engine

Google Gets Vocal with Its iPhone Search App

November 15, 2008 – 10:32 am

On Friday, Google was expected to unveil the second release of its mobile app for the iPhone. The software allows users to query Google outside of the mobile Safari Web browser, as well as search through contacts. But the big change in this release is…

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Google Turns 10

September 7, 2008 – 9:51 pm

Ten years ago today, Google was incorporated. Thus began the meteoric rise of a company that’s become so synonymous with the Internet that its own name has become a verb. After all, it’s even in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, defined as:

to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web

It seems like a long time, but for a company, it’s not. And Google has managed to turn Yahoo! and Microsoft into afterthoughts in terms of search. Remember all those old search engines from so long ago: AltaVista, Lycos and the like?

I’d be remiss if I didn’t write about such a prestigious anniversary, but it would also be silly for me to simply cover everything that everyone else has. So, instead, I’ll let CBS News Science and Technology Correspondent Daniel Sieberg do it, via the embedded report below.

As he says:

You know it’s funny, but not very long ago we were unable to “Google” anyone we knew, the things we wanted to buy, or the places we’d to go. But in just 10 years, Google has become more than a verb, it’s become part of our culture.

Watch the video report:

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Search Engine Position

July 6, 2008 – 10:12 am

Check your search engine positions on Google Search Engine.
How to use this tool
1. Enter the exact website address of the page you want to the tool to search for. (eg. www.iwebtool.com)
2. Select which search engine you want the tool to search through.
3. Select the limit number of results you want to search.
4. Enter Keywords you [...]

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