Google, the popular Internet search engine, was voted “Brand of the Year” in a ballot conducted by Interbrand, a British agency that assists companies in developing their products, reports Reuters. Professionals and students from 72 countries were asked which brand had made the most impact on their lives in 2002. Google received 15% of the 1,315 votes.
Read MoreJust in time for holidays, Google is beta-testing a new service that uses the company’s search engine to help consumers find products online. Dubbed Froogle, the new service “makes it easy to find information about products for sale online. By focusing entirely on product search, Froogle applies the power of Google’s search technology to a very specific task: locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to the place where you can make a purchase,” according to the Web site.
Read MoreTeoma.com, a new search engine owned by Ask Jeeves, has officially launched today and offers several unique search features aimed at providing more relevant, subject-specific results. Teoma employs several techniques for determining relevancy of sites, including ranking Web sites by the number of same-subject sites that reference it, identifying experts and resources for specific subjects, and allowing users to narrow their search through refinement options.
Read MoreSearchGoogle is a simple background service for Mac OS X that allows users to select text in any application and then launch a search for that text in Google with a single keystroke.
Read MoreGoogle’s Zeitgeist, a compilation of interesting statistics from the search engine, reveals that “iMac” was the tenth most gaining query for the month of January, as noted by MacGeneration. Also during January, four percent of Google’s total searches were accessed from Macs.
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