If you are a keen gadget user and online shopper, then you would be familiar with the experience of Googling your product of interest, checking out the product specification on the manufacturer’s website, trawling through online forums, reading all the online reviews about the product you can find and even having a pick at [...]

One of the interesting thing about the whole YouTube phenomenon is that it is really not about video search but more about the social aspects of uploading video and sharing videos. For example, a search for uranium on YouTube simply found various documentary that has the keyword “uranium” in its metadata either in the [...]

During a conversation with a friend the other day, we got onto the topic of searching for email and I was surprised to find that whilst desktop searching technology has really matured significantly over the last couple of years (with a bit of help from more powerful PC !) most people are not really [...]

Google has started a new unbranded search site called SearchMash, where it plans to test user interface ideas without Google’s brand somehow skewing the tests.
SearchMash uses the latest AJAX technology and allows you to perform a search and get Web and image results presented side by side. It’s similar to how A9 has long [...]