Google wants webmasters who offer video content to be able to get their videos displayed in search results more easily. The company has announced that that it now supports Facebook Share and Yahoo SearchMonkey RDFa, which are both markup formats that allow webmasters to specify information that is important to video indexing.
You Can Almost Get Real-Time Results with Google
Whether you think to use them or not, you probably remember that Google launched its "search options" a while back. Within these options is an option to search by timeframe.
Does Google need real-time search? Tell us what you think.
You can choose results from any time, recent results, the past 24 hours, the past week, the past year, or a specific date range.
Bing Readies Sharing Feature for Search Results
Microsoft is working on a new feature for Bing called "Bing and Ping." This is a means to share your search results with friends. Bing’s "decision engine" nature provides plenty of content that users may actually want to share. Nicholas Kerr of the Bing Team explains:
Flickr Refines Search Results Pages
There is a lot of redesigning of Yahoo properties going on these days. Earlier today, some big changes were announced for delicious. The Yahoo homepage was recently redone of course. Now Flickr has redesigned its search results page. The company says the new design makes it easier to browse through the billions of photos and videos on the site, and to connect to the communities that can help make sense of them.
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A Future of Googling for Twitter Results?
After checking out Bing’s explanation of how it handles reference searches, it got me thinking how big of a role Wikipedia plays in search. Wikipedia entries are often among the top results in Google, and clearly they are a big part of Bing’s strategy as well.
Hulu Makes Changes to Search Results
Hulu has made a few changes to how it presents its search results, as well as the site’s "most popular" and "recently added" pages. Most noticeably, Hulu has abandoned the two-column approach in favor of a more "prominent placement of the show Hulu thinks you are looking for.
Google Improves Universal Results for Locations
Google is now showing images in universal search results for location queries. They have shown maps for some time, but the addition of images enriches the results that much more.
Wikipedia Results Good or Bad for Google News?
Well, the news organizations must love this one. With all of the controversy that has been going on in the online news world, and in particular, the tension between big news organizations and Google, it must have come as a surprise to a lot of people to learn that Google News is now featuring Wikipedia entries in its results.
Killing Bad Search Results with Reputation Management
A company called Visible Technologies has just released a new online reputation management solution. It’s called TruRepuation, and aims to provide individuals and companies alike an effective way to manage their reputation in search engine results.
A Trending Topic on Twitter with No Results
Despite Twitter’s rapidly growing popularity, the service is quite known for downtime, and random bugs. In fact, the Twitter Status Blog usually does its best to keep the public informed about known bugs, but I have not seen mention of this yet.
While taking a look at the top trending topics on Twitter this morning, one of them (#inappropriatemovies)is giving me "no results" when I click on it. How can it be a trending topic if there are no results?