Before the change, when people searched for "cameras, " for example, the top-five most popular cameras from the shopping page often would appear underneath a few search-results links.
For example, a search for "30 Rock, " the name of a popular TV series, will bring up a section called "Actor searches for 30 Rock" at the bottom of the search-results page.
But search advertising--the small text ads placed beside search results--show signs of relative health.
Once people download the apps, with names like PageRage and BuzzDock, extra ads can appear on Facebook and search-engine results pages.
Some U.S. courts have agreed with Google's assertion that its search-engine results are a kind of opinion that is protected by free-speech rights.
But Reputation Defender recently began offering users a subtler approach: hiding unwanted Web comments with a barrage of positive, Google-friendly content, either created by the company or dredged up from elsewhere on the Web and optimized to appear at the top of search-engine results.
However, paid listings--in which companies pay for placement in search results--have proved successful.
Beyond delivering spot-on search results and insightful recommendations, M-GO has a stable of entertainment experts to curate the content and help cut through the clutter to get the entertainment that is just right for each person.
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The newest player in the flight-and-hotel meta-search market is Hipmunk, a site aimed at de-cluttering travel search results and ranking results by levels of "agony".
Another difference: After being dogged by privacy advocates, Google now anonymizes search results -- making them difficult, if not impossible, to trace back to an individual user -- after nine months.
As well as mining bitcoins, PCs enrolled in ZeroAccess were also being used to poison search results - to cause users to unwittingly click on booby-trapped web pages - or fraudulently click on adverts to generate revenue.
Google's ability to place small, targeted text advertisements next to internet-search results, and on other websites, meant that many of the business models thought to have been killed by the dotcom bust now rose from the grave.
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The company also said it would do a better job of restricting copyright violators on the Web from participating in Google's advertising network, and that it would take steps to make it easier for users to find and access previews of copyrighted material, such as songs or videos, on the first Web-search results page, rather than having to click on links to other websites.
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Now when you do a web search on Facebook, the new search results page features a two-column layout with Bing-powered web results appearing on the left-hand side overlaid with social information from Facebook including how many people like a given result.
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The Online Journalism Review looks at Quixtar , a company that built dozens of Web sites that link to each other with positive news about the business, assuring that a Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) search produced only PR-friendly results.
For the first time, Verizon's FiOS search on LG Smart TVs and Blu-ray players provide search results from a choice of 75 broadcast channels and Flex View content.
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On Thursday, Web site administrators for major sites including the Washingtonpost.com, Techcrunch, and Engadget (as well as Forbes.com) found that their "pagerank"--a number that typically reflects the ranking of a site in Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) results for key search terms--had dropped precipitously according to Google Toolbar, a software program that tracks Google's assessment of a site.
Every Windows Phone 7 Series phone will come with a dedicated hardware button for Bing, providing one-click access to search from anywhere on the phone, while a special implementation of Bing search provides intent-specific results, delivering the most relevant Web or local results, depending on the type of query.
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Last Wednesday Google announced Instant search, an impressive technical achievement that shows probable search results in real time--as you type letters into the search box.
Because Google ranks sites in its search results based on how many other sites link to them, many high-ranking sites will sell links to low-ranking sites, earning cash in return for boosting the low-ranking site in search results.
Last January, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a search engine called Wikia Search, a purported "Google-killer" that aimed to edit and refine search results with the same methods that have made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon--the contributions of thousands of volunteers.
There's a side bar of drop-downs to refine the search further -- you can narrow the results by gender, categories, interests, etc.
Full names were always visible to non-friends in search results for your name.
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Above and to the right of the wearer's right eye is a small screen that can display Google search results, e-mails, reminders and other information.
On Thursday, Web site administrators for major sites including the Washingtonpost.com, Techcrunch, and Engadget (as well as Forbes.com) found that their "pagerank"--a number that typically reflects the ranking of a site in Google results for key search terms--had dropped precipitously according to Google Toolbar, a software program that tracks Google's assessment of a site.
It seems that the old model of cyber-attacks, involving peer-to-peer virus infection, is becoming increasingly ineffective as anti-virus companies step up their game, causing nogoodniks to rely on search results, websites, and zero-day attacks.
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We started by looking for job titles most likely to encompass business-to-business sales jobs, and then did a meticulous review of the search results to remove duplicates and any retail-type positions.
Furthermore, the search results were widely suspect -- charges of search corruption were rampant.
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Trulia shares rocketed higher at the open, after the real estate search engine company reported first-quarter results Tuesday.
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