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Google loves to throw small-yet-sensible interface updates into many Chrome releases, and the new Chrome 29 for iOS represents a textbook example. The browser’s voice search now supports contextual pronouns like “her” or “them;” ask a question and you can run a follow-up search without mentioning the subject by name. The update also lets you quickly jump back to search results if you visit the wrong result, and it’s now easier to view bandwidth savings if you have access to the experimental data compression feature. Should you like the smattering of new features, you can grab Chrome 29 now through the App Store.

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Facebook is set to launch a couple of new search tools aimed at helping these organizations to figure out what Facebook users are talking about. The search tools will undoubtedly be used by marketers as well looking for topics they can target to sell products and services. The tools are focused on helping people gain […]

This article was written on July 25, 2008 by CyberNet.

Google announced today that their search engine has hit a huge milestone, and it’s that they’ve come across an astounding 1 trillion unique URL’s on the web. Don’t confuse this with the number of pages that the search engine has indexed, because they flat out said that they are not indexing each of those trillion URL’s since many of them have duplicated/useless content:

So how many unique pages does the web really contain? We don’t know; we don’t have time to look at them all! 🙂 Strictly speaking, the number of pages out there is infinite — for example, web calendars may have a “next day” link, and we could follow that link forever, each time finding a “new” page. We’re not doing that, obviously, since there would be little benefit to you. But this example shows that the size of the web really depends on your definition of what’s a useful page, and there is no exact answer.

We don’t index every one of those trillion pages — many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn’t very useful to searchers. But we’re proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world’s data.

It’s crazy to think that there are over a trillion different URL’s that you can visit, and yet it was just a few years ago that Google was trying to tell us that we reached the end of the Internet? Uh, not quite. 😉

The problem that we all run into now is trying to find that one website that has exactly what we’re looking for. Search engines like Google try to make the information easier to find, but sometimes they don’t get the job done. To help discover the best of the trillion+ URL’s we have to rely on other services like StumbleUpon. Just think about how many different sites StumbleUpon has introduced to people. Heck, we’ve gotten over 2,000 visits alone from StumbleUpon today, and I’m sure a majority of those people are brand new visitors.

So grab yourself a few large pizzas, a couple cases of pop, and get back to browsing the web. You’ve got a few hundred billion more URL’s to discover. 😀

P.S. I wonder what the lucky 1 trillionth URL was?

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Twitter has become serious business, and official partner Topsy’s business is to take it very seriously. The company has just announced a major milestone in the company’s history that is sure to rock your socks off, doing something that not even Twitter itself could, or wants, to do: indexing and searching for each and every […]

This article was written on April 12, 2008 by CyberNet.

Penn State recently published  the results from a study which classifies web searchers.  They say that people mainly use web search engines for three main purposes, thus searchers are divided into three different categories. The three main categories are:

1. Information searchers – those who use a search engine to look for information regarding a specific fact or topic
2. Navigational searchers – those who use a search engine to find a specific site
3. Transactional searchers – those who use a search engine to find information on buying a specific product or service

What they found out of all of the research is that most people are information searchers, they’re trying to find information regarding a specific fact or topic.  They say, “Researchers analyzed more than 1.5 million queries from hundreds of thousands of search engine users. Findings showed that about 80 percent of queries are informational and about 10 percent each are for navigational and transactional purposes.”

What I like about this study is that a rather large amount of search queries were analyzed which gives me a better feeling that this study is accurate.  They said that other studies in the past have looked at “much smaller sets of queries, usually manually,” while this research was all about classifying queries automatically.

Also interesting is that in the future they plan to take this study to the next level. The Penn State Researcher will do this by using a more “complex algorithm that will hopefully yield a 90-percent accuracy rate using similar searching criteria.”

So what do you use search engines for? Let us know in the Poll below (you must have Flash enabled):

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