Google and Microsoft keep up their constant and nearly simultaneous release of innovations, proving that competition between the two search engine rivals is healthy as can be. Microsoft’s latest is a beta version of ‘visual search’, which transforms a search from a text-based to an image-based experience.They sneakily require you to install Silverlight in order [...]
The Big Three Struggle For Position
September 28th, 2009Bing Visual Search
September 15th, 2009Microsoft presented Bing 2.0 at TechCrunch50. The engine is also known as Bing Visual Search, and allows people to “search by picture.” A sneak preview of Visual Search in August laid the groundwork for the release, which is expected to be the first of many. Bing Visual Search is designed to allow searchers to comfortably [...]
Images For the Taking? Not Usually.
June 16th, 2009Yahoo has added a filter for finding public domain photographs in image search. This is a huge step forward, as people in the past have often believed (incorrectly) that any image available from search results is free for the taking. This just isn’t so, so beware of running an image search and snagging a pic [...]
Google Webmaster Videos Show the Way
March 13th, 2009Google is now using video to present ideas, tips and information about SEO and SEM. Matt Cutts is as always prominently featured. The top three vids to watch are as follows: Matt Cutts dos an in depth talk about how 301 redirects (which herald the permanent change of the URL of a page) and how [...]