Google are constantly updating, researching, brainstorming and redesigning new features for Google Labs to help improve their applications and give the best user experience possible for their searchers. In 2002, they introduced Google Labs, which allows Google to share their new developments and features with their users, so they can get direct feedback from users, as they try out the new features and share their thoughts on the products. In…
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Google is planning to introduce display advertising into its image search results, as the search engine giant looks at finding more ways to monetise it search results. Until now Google Image Search has been free of any kind of advertising. The company did experiment with the addition of some text ads in image results back in 2006, but abandoned the plan after negative user feedback. Google calculated then that it…
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Google is in the process of developing new search technology to enable it to recognise and rank images more accurately. The search engine hopes to make image searches as accurate and relevant as text search by using technology to read the image. Currently, finding pictures through Google Image Search is currently imperfect, as the search engine has to rely on the text associated with the image, which may often bear…
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Yahoo has unveiled a number of changes to its search engine this week, adding a new search assist feature, and taking a step towards the kind of universal search results that have so far been introduced by Google, Ask.com and MSN Live Search. Yahoo says this is the most significant upgrade to its search engine since it took control of its search engine three years ago from Google, which had…
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