Wednesday 27 January 2010

AutoSuggest Updates – Bing vs Yahoo

Bing has now caught-up with the search game with an improved and better autosuggest. When you type a query term, it will start adding some breaking news and popular related queries. It is still a little too early to say that it is now as good as Google, the autosuggest is still on its earliest stage of collecting information.

Bing Auto Suggest

Bing Auto Suggest

With Regards to search results, Bing has also now put out different categories of results below the top 5 of its regular results. This entirely different way of displaying results will definitely affect how the SEO-ers would strategise for this search engine. Obviously, powering reviews of your product, images, videos and have Wikipedia profile became crucial.

Bing Search Results

Bing Search Results

Yahoo on the other hand has even more interesting auto-suggest and how it display its results. The “explore concept” section of the auto suggest pretty much take on all the keywords around the term “crop jacket” on the search result.

Yahoo Auto Suggest

Yahoo Auto Suggest

Thursday 14 January 2010

Going Green at Google


Search engine giant Google has created a subsidiary called “Google Energy”, which is looking to buy and sell electricity in the US market. Google is currently waiting for a reply from the FERC (Federal Energy Regulated Commission).
In 2007 Google started investing in renewable energy. “Power Meter” is a free software launched by Google that monitors and tracks electricity consumption for individuals and business organisations. This software, which the company believes, has great potential in reduction of carbon emissions.The company aims to have an emission free operations and take steps towards going green and prevent global warming which would be possible by reduction of greenhouse gases.
In particular, Google will be investing in solar-thermal technology, wind power, and geothermal systems. Its target is to fall below the price of coal power generation.