Google News mistakes Jackson queries for attack
After the shocking and sudden reports on Michael Jackson’s death, a flurry of search queries for the King of the Pop led Google News, the news aggregator of Web search giant Google, to believe it was under an attack, Google said at its official blog on Friday.
The Internet giant said on Friday that as “millions and millions” of people across the globe sent in search and news queries for the pop star on Thursday, Google hesitated a bit initially believing that it was under an automated virus attack, rating the “hotness” of Jackson-related searches as “volcanic.”
“The spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was so big that Google News initially mistook it for an automated attack,” Google said. The official blog post also added, “As a result, for about 25 minutes yesterday, when some people searched Google News they saw a ‘We’re sorry’ page before finding the articles they were looking for.”
As the reports about the hospitalization and death of the pop star, millions of shocked fans across the globe couldn’t believe the news and searched for reliable sources on the internet.
Amongst the other web-based services who suffered a lowdown were the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, web portal AOL, and Yahoo!
Twitter suffered a slowdown as millions of shocked fans and even celebrities across the globe expressed their shock and emotions on the sudden development. AOL’s AIM instant messaging service was down for about 40 minutes.
Yahoo! said it received five times its normal traffic and its front page story “Michael Jackson rushed to hospital” was its “highest clicking story” ever with 800,000 clicks within 10 minutes.
Google, Facebook launch Persian services
The global internet search giant Google Inc announced on Friday that the company has launched a Farsi translation service for the Iranians.
On the same day, social networking giant Facebook, also announced the launch of their Persian version.
Since the last week’s disputed presidential elections, Iranians and many other international media outlets have used internet and social networking sites to communicate to the world.
Announcing the addition of Farsi to Google Translate, a free online service, Google’s principal scientist, Franz Och, said, “We feel that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran.
At the Google’s official blog, the latest blog post read, “Google Translate is one more tool that Persian speakers can use to communicate directly to the world, and vice versa — increasing everyone’s access to information.”
On the other hand, Facebook’s engineer’s blog post read, “Since the Iranian election last week, people around the world have increasingly been sharing news and information on Facebook about the results and its aftermath. Today we’re making the entire site available in a beta version of Persian.” Several thousand people posted a “thumbs up” reaction to the news, denoting their approval.”
Microsoft makes gains with Bing
Going by the market figures of the last week, Google’s arch rival, Microsoft’s newly launched search engine Bing won more market share according to the data released on Wednesday. However, the new kid on the block is still miles way from Google Inc and Yahoo Inc.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer labeled this as a good start for their company.
“We have had some very good initial response,” Ballmer said at a conference in Detroit. “I don’t want to over-set expectations. We are going to have to be tenacious and keep up the pace of innovation over a long period of time,” he added.
According to data released by industry tracker comScore on Wednesday, for the June 8-12 week, Microsoft grabbed 12.1 per cent of U.S. Internet searches. This accounts for a 11.3 per cent growth from the June 1-5 period, the week in which the new search engine was launched.
On the monthly basis, Google top scored with 64.2 per cent of U.S. searches in April, followed by Yahoo! with 20.4 per cent and then Microsoft with only 8.2 percent
Google launches search tool ‘Google Squared’
The leading internet search giant, Google Inc. rolled out an experimental new search product on Wednesday called ‘Google Squared.’
Unlike the traditional search engine from Google, Google Squared does not provide a list of links to relevant web pages. It instead presents information derived from a query in a spreadsheet-like grid called a ‘square.’
Out of the information retrieved the users can then build, modify and/or refine their ‘square’ with the help of further web searches.
“Unlike a normal search engine, Google Squared doesn’t find web pages about your topic — instead, it automatically fetches and organizes facts from across the Internet,” Google said earlier last month in a preview of the company’s new product.
At its official blog, Google says that Google Squared could be useful when a user needs to make multiple searches to find the required information they are looking for.
“It essentially searches the Web to find the types of facts you might be interested in, extracts them and presents them in a meaningful way. If your square isn’t perfect at the beginning, it’s easy to work with Google Squared to get a better answer.” Google said on Wednesday.
Google to sell new e-books online
Google Inc. is planning to begin selling electronic versions of new books (e-books) online this year. This is being understood as a potential competition to the market leader Amazon.
According to Gabriel Stricker, A spokesperson from Google, “We’ve consistently maintained that we’re committed to helping our partners find more ways to make their books accessible and available for purchase. By end of this year, we hope to give publisher partners an additional way to sell their books by allowing users to purchase access to Partner Program books online.”
“We want to build and support a digital book ecosystem to allow our partner publishers to make their books available for purchase from any Web-enabled device,” he added in a statement on Monday.
This project undertaken by the Search engine giant is expected to be different from the Google’s controversial book-scanning program. The latest project from Google Inc will enable the book publishers to sell digital/electronic versions of their newest books directly to consumers through Google, placing the internet giant in a direct competition with Amazon.com. Amazon has been selling e-books for its electronic book reader, Kindle.
Yahoo to shut Yahoo 360
One of the popular Yahoo service, Yahoo 360 is now finally officially closing on July 13. According to the earlier reports, Yahoo! was contemplating to shut the service last year itself, however it never happened. The announcement came at the official blog of Yahoo!
The blog post says, “Over the past two years there has been a lot of discussion about the closure of Yahoo! 360° and the transition to our new profiles experience that we’ve had in the works. Today, we’re able to firmly say that on July 13, 2009 Yahoo! 360° will be closing down and you’ll be asked to move into your new profile on Yahoo!, by July 12, 2009.”
Launched in March 2005, Yahoo 360 was the social network/blogging service from Yahoo!, the second largest search engine company after Google.
Unlike many other contemporaries, this service from Yahoo! couldn’t gain much popularity. Yahoo 360 had 13.9 million worldwide unique visitors in April, however.
A couple of years earlier, in October 2007, Yahoo! announced its plans to shut the service. However in April 2008, the company reiterated the plan.
Microsoft throws a challenge to Google!
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled the new Web search engine, Bing, which Microsoft claims is built to understand what people are seeking for their internet search. This is seen as Microsoft’s challenge to Google Inc. whose search engine Google has more than 50 per cent of the internet search market!
The US software giant is labeling Bing as a “Decision Engine”.
Bing’s launch from Microsoft comes in the wake of Google and Yahoo! announcing enhancements to their search engines and the launch of the much anticipated Wolfram Alpha query engine, which delivers answers rather than directing you to information with a list of websites.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said, “Today, search engines do a decent job of helping people navigate the Web and find information, but they don’t do a very good job of enabling people to use the information they find. When we set out to build Bing, we grounded ourselves in a deep understanding of how people really want to use the Web.”
Bing relies predominately on algorithms and key words but instead it had infused some semantic technology to get the intended meanings of phrases, much like Wolfram Alpha query engine.
EU regulator eyes Google after Microsoft and Intel
EU’s next target might well be Google, thanks to its omnipresent Internet search engine and online ad business. After fining the software giant Microsoft and then Intel, EU competition regulators are believed to be eyeing the search engine giant.
EU accused Microsoft of illegally tying up its internet explorer web browser alongside its Windows Operating System. EU is believed to be taking a legal action against the software giant on the same.
Intel was fined a huge USD 1.45 billion for allegedly abusing its dominant market power. It alleged Intel for using strong-arm sales tactics in the computer chip market.
Microsoft, in its defense, insists that the profits are being earned from the search engine market and the lucrative online advertising business, indicating that Google is the one taking all benefits.
The commission on the other hand insists that Microsoft ought to include multiple web browsers pre-installed on Windows OS, giving an option to the user to choose from.
Under the tighter system to be approved, Google is the foremost target for EU.
Google: improvising search results!
Google Inc. is all set to roll out new features for its world famous search engine to narrow the search results and get deeper information from its database.
The changes to be made by internet search giant were previewed on Tuesday. A major change includes the options to confine your Google search results to a specific time periods or category.
The new tools are expected to be available later this month.
The leader in the search engine business, Google, is also aiming to roll out the new “Google Squared”. This shall present you your search results in a format similar to spreadsheets.
The approach keeps the users intact with Google. It fetches the required data from other essential websites, packages them and gives lesser chances to the users to navigate away from Google.
Though this aspect is bound to get Google more and more of criticisms. The internet giant is bound to get even more complaints about its affinity towards pure business and making money out of the content being created by other companies, websites and individuals.
Google search gets semantic
It’s absolutely true! The very own Google search has undergone transformation and has now turned to be semantic.
Google Inc. has confirmed on Tuesday that the search engine giant has modified its popular search engine to understand semantic relationships between words. This modification comes as a part of Google’s efforts to better understand its users’ searches. Google searchs from Tuesday will produce results based on semantic search in as may as 37 differnet languages.
The newly deployed technology would now attempt to understand the association between the words entered by the user in the search engine.
In the words of Google search quality team technical lead Ori Allon and snippets team engineer Ken Wilder, “We’re deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search. We are now able to target more queries, more languages, and make our suggestions more relevant to what you actually need to know.”
Software giant, Microsoft Inc. late last month announced the compoany’s plan to roll out its sematics based search engine kumo.com.
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