At the very peak of college admissions, students are often lost and need advice about the best college options for them. Although various search engines exist, and there are already established players in the industry, new ideas keep flowing. A new start-up WhatNeXT, currently operating in Maharashtra aims to become a complete and reliable college…

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As a part of the merger of Yahoo!’s search backend with Bing search engine, Yahoo! has announced the shut down of it’s Site Explorer tool from the Yahoo! Search service. Webmasters will now be required to use the Bing Webmaster Central for both Yahoo! and Bing search.

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Google has disabled it’s Real Time search feature due to a contract expiry with Twitter. Google now plans to re-launch the service with updates from it’s new social network – Google Plus.

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Google’s Instant Pages helps to accelerate the search results. It predictively preloads pages before users click on result links. So after inputting the search query, the search result pages will open up faster that before.

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Google Voice Search is also exactly what it sounds like – you can speak your search queries instead of typing them. This feature has been available on Android phones and now Google is bringing it to the desktop as well.

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At the Inside Search event being held at San Francisco, Google has announced a new addition to its search features – Search by Image. The Search by Image feature is something like Google’s image search application for mobile devices – Google Goggles.

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After months of speculations, Google has finally launched the +1 button for websites. Here is a look at what it is and how you can add it to your website.

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Cheating is something which one would least expect of an organisation as big as Microsoft. Well, not exactly. In the past we have reported how Internet Explorer 9 was caught cheating the Sunspider Benchmark tests. Now, we are getting reports from various sources online that Google has caught Bing copying search results from Google after…

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We have covered a lot of GMail Labs related stories earlier. And in case you have been using one or more GMail Labs, you must have realised how hard it is to locate a GMail Labs feature as there was no way to search for the features from inside GMail. But not anymore as the GMail team has introduced a cool search bar on the GMail Labs page. And the icing on the cake is that it is “Search As You Type”.

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