Posts Tagged ‘power search’
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:
Getting more from Excel with Sortfix
August 12th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
You can probably find Microsoft’s Excel software on most computers. I don’t think I can even recall a workday in the last few years when I haven’t opened an Excel spreadsheet.
People use Excel for many purposes, but the one I’m going to describe (and show) you here really surprised me.
A few days ago I got call from Alon Bahari from Veolia Transportation. Alon asked if I could search for a way to calculate distances between two different coordinates. My first thought: Why not stretch a line on Google maps and see the distance? Alon said that would be nice if he didn’t have to calculate 1,200 different distances.
Due to the fact I’m not really an expert on the subject, and I knew that delivering the right solution on a spreadsheet would be acceptable to Alon (and possibly other users), I wrote the following query in the SortFix search box:
New York Times visits Google
August 10th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
I read an article on the New York Times website that related to last week’s post. It was written by Saul Hansell and concerned Google’s well-known search engine.
NY Times on Google's Search Engine by Saul Hansell
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.
Improve Your Curry Recipe… And Your Search
May 29th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
The Internet has pretty much changed the lives of amateur chefs like myself. There are millions of recipes online — more than we could ever hope to find in cookbooks. But, sometimes, this can be too much of a good thing.
In this post I’ll demonstrate how SortFix can lead your search to the right recipe — in this case a tasty curry.
Just the other week, my wife and I had a craving for a decent curry. So we searched on Google for “curry recipe.”As you can see, we got 1.3 million results.
curry recipe
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