Archive for the ‘Search Report’ Category
Christmas 2009 – Sortfix goes HD
December 22nd, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Still don’t know what to buy for Christmas? Waiting for the last minute? Sortfix Video Has the Best gifts for you to buy.
Now watch and find on Sortfix the coolest gifts on HD video-
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Sortfix Team
SortFix Search Engine News December 2009
December 15th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Less than two weeks from Christmas, here are a few search updates you should know about.
Google Goggles - Google just launched this new search application for Android phones. This application enables you to search by taking a photo instead of a text- or voice-based search. Users can take pictures of business cards, locations (with GPS), or text-related items as books, from Android phones and then retrieve search results by them. It is a cool app. With time we’ll see how useful it will be. Watch this short video demonstration.
Search Engine News – November 2009
November 16th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
As always, a lot is happening in the search industry. Here are a few highlights from the last month.
SearchEngineWatch.com reports on the closing of Google’s Caffeine Sandbox, which was just released last August. Google intends to release a new index soon.
SearchEngineWatch on Google's Caffeine
Last week, Pandia Search Engine News recommended its top five sites for social search. The post covers known social sites as delicious and StumbleUpon and Google’s new social search.
Pandia on Social Search
Google’s social search
You can also use Sortfix’s for social search, as we reported in the past.
Google Wave or Twitter Search?
October 18th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Due to the fact I’m part of a search engine company, I do a lot of searching on the Web.
I just found a cool tool that measures what trends are popular right now on Twitter.
Trends on Twitter - Trendmetr
Trendmetr is an entertaining and fun tool. I tried it on search-related topics to learn what topics interest Twitter users. I typed “twitter search,” “google wave,” “search engine,” and “power search.” As I suspected, “google wave” is more trendy than the others, but “search engine” continues to be a very trendy topic for Twitter users.
Try Trendmetr searches on subjects that interest you.
Google and Bing search for Twitter?
October 11th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Are we on the verge of a new era? According to AllThingDigital, Twitter is negotiating Google and Microsoft separately to combine twitter feeds in search results.
twitter.com
Recent Search News Releases
October 1st, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Search Queries are Going Through the Roof
September 9th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
While we get the feeling there aren’t any dramatic changes in search engine use, there has been a substantial increase in the amount of search queries worldwide.
According to comScore, Inc., in July 2009 there were more than 113 billion search queries worldwide, an increase of more than 41% over July 2008.
These findings, along with the growth of searches per-person to 103.3 searches in July 2009, illustrate the importance of search and the need for search engines to evolve and to provide improved functionality for searching. The more people search, the greater the demand (and expectation) for a better search experience and relevant results.
SortFix’s search tool continues to evolve. We also witness a substantial growth in search queries, and keep on improving our algorithm and interface to meet our searchers demands. We are also working on a new design to make SortFix even more user and search friendly.
Google Caffeine – A First Glance
August 12th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Google’s main business is search. Despite dominating the search market, the search giant isn’t neglecting the engine. With the expansion of Bing, the release of Wolfram Alpha, and Facebook’s new realtime search engine, Google is quick to draw their own card – Caffeine – a new search engine. Here’s a first glance.
Guest post by Yohay Elam of Forex Crunch – Forex Trading Blog.
You can check out the new engine here. The new search engine looks exactly like Google’s current search. The difference is behind the scenes. It’s all about speed.
Following Twitter and also Facebook, Google also aims for real time results. While they’re still not there, the new engine is more up to date. That’s one element of speed. They emphasize the importance of speed in the official blog.
The second element of speed is in the response time – the new engine feels faster. This speed could be due to the small scale of use, but it looks very promising. Quick response time helped Google top the search engine market, and they’re still improving the performance.
You may say: Google is fast enough, and I usually don’t need real time results. Is there a real improvement in searches? We still can’t tell. Let’s test a few examples,
One of our favorites is ice cream. On the current search, the first results are images of ice cream, while they don’t appear on the new search. Click on the images to enlarge:
Google Enhancer according to BatesInfo
July 29th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Batesinfo is part of Mary Ellen Bate’s Information services. The blog had a post covering Sortfix in August 2008.
BateInfo describes SortFix as a Google Enhancer. Bates reviews SortFix’s ‘Power Words’ use with our ‘Add to Search’ and ‘Remove’ boxes.
I also recommend to take the time to read Bate’s research tips on online matters, search engines and much more.
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