Figures show the Ayrshire-based search and rescue service responded to 344 calls, an increase of 81 on 2006.
The text-based search was restricted to looking either by type of garment or designer, neither of which he found helpful.
In pushing local search, it also added a desktop-based search even for people who are not logged in to Foursquare.
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The China-based search engine Baidu this afternoon reported Q4 results that were a smidgen ahead of the Street consensus estimates.
But does that pragmatic approach leave Google vulnerable to an innovative start-up willing to risk its fate on building meaning-based search from scratch?
Google says the modifications to its algorithms impact about 12% of U.S.-based search queries, and further changes rolled out earlier this month affect an additional 2%.
So in 2009, Ravindran and three classmates dropped out of college to focus on bridging this information gap through the development of a text message-based search engine.
The video shows RIOT using a browser-based search interface to track the Raytheon employee across Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla (which was acquired by Facebook last year).
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"Google has a chat application, Web-based search, and there is no one cohesive Google mobile application, which is important to have in a mobile environment where you want to be able to switch between applications, " she says.
At the top on the list is Russia-based search engine Yandex, which is expected to price as early as Monday and could start trading on the Nasdaq Tuesday under the ticker YNDX, according to IPOScoop.com and IPOBoutique.com.
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Considering all the recent hullabaloo surrounding Google TV, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the Mountain View-based search titan has dreams of growing beyond its current de facto exclusive integration deal with Dish Network.
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Google is wary of what companies like Facebook and Twitter may be able to do with socially-based search, and is struggling to find ways to capture more social relationships, with services like Buzz, a Twitter-like service inside Gmail.
Highly contextual search based on your search terms: search on a location, instead of getting thousands of results filtered by relevance you get results tailored to a location: current weather, local events, geo-coded Flickr photos, news, maps.
Cloud-based employee search capability improves candidate acquisition, and cloud-based communication and collaboration tools help virtual working relationships succeed.
And the company said it has acquired Krillion, a provider of location-based product search services.
China-based Internet search giant Baidu this afternoon reported mixed results for the third quarter.
Google Trends points to Palin as the campaign's star, based on search volume over the past month.
Then he became COO of Taptu, a UK-based mobile search engine before joining Rebtel as CEO in September 2009.
This transition negates the ability for website operators to personalize the user experience and provide relevant, targeted advertising based on search terms.
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Shenzhen-based firm Easou.com (with WAP-based mobile search partnering with Chinese Web portal Sohu.com) was the second most popular choice, followed by Google.
Bill retained a Chicago based executive search firm for the job.
Brands already pick to promote their content and different social handles to select groups of users based on search keywords and profile types.
Companies such as Facebook-based job search company Branchout, daily deals aggregator Yipit and car-sharing company Getaround are among those that have raised funding through the site.
Tancer is even working with researchers at Stanford to explore a new consumer confidence estimate based on search terms like "gas prices" and visits to thrifty comparison-shopping sites, which have climbed in response to this year's economic pain.
This subtle war between native apps and web-based mobile search that has significant implications for revenue models of the large tech firms and indicates another area in which Apple could be disruptive, particularly as more people access the internet via a mobile device.
We realize that in return for better and better search results we will be served advertisements that are aware of our current search, and we may or may not be as aware of how they are tuned based on our search or browsing history.
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As with us, we make search based on those who you trust, your friends.
Shares of the Connecticut-based travel booking search site are on fire as competitors struggle to keep up.
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Is there actually anything Google does other than search based advertising which actually makes them a profit?
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