It’s rare that Google updates the looks of their home page or search engine result pages ( SERPs) but ever since Bing has stepped up the game with their different and useful designs, Google has been experimenting a lot lately. As part of their Google +1 release, they’ve accordingly made changes to other parts of their services, notably, Search.
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Microsoft Releases Bing App for iPad [Review]
Microsoft has released a Bing app for iPad. This isn’t their first Bing app for iOS, as they had already previously released a Bing app for iPhone. If you’re a Bing user with an iPad, this is the perfect app for you and it actually shows Google how to make a good search app.
Google Shows New Widget for Weather Search Results for iPhone and Android Users
Google has started showing a new useful weather widget for weather related queries by users from Android and iOS devices. The widget shows the current weather conditions and includes a slider to see the changes in weather over the next 12 hours. Really cool, we must say!
Google Releases Search App for Windows Phone 7–Download now!
Microsoft provides Bing as the default search engine for Windows Phone 7 just like Android has Google. But to make googling more convenient, Google has released a free Search App for Windows Phone 7 that lets you search the web, images, local and more – in a nutshell, the complete search package.
Google Search Results get Makeover – Bing inspiration evident
Google has a new search results UI in the works. Here is how it currently looks like:
While doing some ‘ego searching’ today, I stumbled across this new Google Search results UI. It looks a lot cleaner than the current UI and a lot less colorful as well. The currently search selection has colored buttons while other search types have colorless images. Weirdly though, navigating to either of them brings back the old UI.
Google’s Parision Love 2010 Super Bowl commercial is simple but effective
Google’s Super Bowl ad is mild and uncontroversial. In other words it’s boring. But just like everything Google does, this is simple and effective. It actually shows the reality of our lives – we’re all so dependant on Google in our daily lives, whether it’s on our desktops, notebooks, netbooks, smartphones, dumb phones or even portable personal computers like the iPod Touch. This ad portrays the effect Google has on our life, from searches to Maps, translations and learning new things. If this doesn’t make you smile, nothing will. Or maybe the Motorola Devour Super Bowl commercial with Megan Fox will.
Check out the video after the break.
Bing’s slow and steady market share increase against Google
Bing seems to have made quiet an impact ever since it was launched. The recent deal between Microsoft and Yahoo will further strengthen Bing’s position and market share down the road. But currently, it’s making tiny but meaningful inroads into Google’s market share.
Microsoft and Yahoo! finalize search agreement for 10 years
Yahoo and Microsoft have an announced an agreement to improve web search for users and advertisers. After months of speculations and many talks, Micro-hoo has finally come to be. Microsoft will be powering Yahoo! search with Bing, where as Yahoo! will be the international exclusive representative for both companies’ premium search advertisers.
Twitter integration in Bing!
Microsoft has come up with a cool new feature for Bing. It has started showing tweets in the results for popular Twitter users. Tweets with profile image and link show up when you search for popular Twitter users such as Robert Scoble or @aplusk. This is one of the first integrations of Twitter by a major search engine by default, as you can already ad similar capabilities to Yahoo Search through the Yahoo Search Gallery, which isn’t that convenient.
To see the tweets, you’ll have to use the word twitter, tweet or @{Twitter user name} in your search query on Bing. This doesn’t work perfectly yet as I found out because when I search for @aplusk, this is what I get:
But, change the query to Ashton Kutcher Tweets, and this is what you get:
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