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Google Goes Square; Search Results in a Spreadsheet Form

Google has announced a new feature from the Google Labs which builds search results into a table like in a spreadsheet.

If you want a list of all the capital cities in Europe you can enter a query like ‘capital cities in Europe’ and Google Squared will build a spreadsheet like results page where you can add rows and columns and build up a table of your results.

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Microsoft’s New Search Engine ‘Bing’ Coming June 3rd; Videos Now on YouTube

A few days ago Microsoft announced the launch of it new search engine called ‘Bing‘. Microsoft has had several stabs at trying to gain a top position in the search engine market but has so far failed. Microsoft’s current search offering called Windows Live has around 8% of the market share with Google being the [...]

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Hoongle: End World Hunger One Search At A Time

If there’s one thing we all use online, it’s a search engine. But what if we could do more for the world when we next have to search for František Čelakovský? This is what Hoongle.org seeks to do. Hoongle is a cross between “Hunger” and Google” (but of course) and is a custom Google search [...]

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Time for Google to Cuil off

This week marked the launch of search engine Cuil (pronounced cool), which has been heralded as a potential serious challenger to search giant Google. Formed by ex-Google engineers, Cuil says that its index of information is based on 120 billion webpages which it claims is three times more than Google uses, although Google still maintains [...]

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