Google Web Search is a feature of Google that allows you to search for pages across the entire web. By default, it also will find matches from related Google search services, all mixed together as part of the “Everything” results that display.

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Google Screenwise: New Program Pays You To Give Up Privacy & Surf The Web With Chrome

Feb 8, 2012 at 1:30am ET by Matt McGee

Google is quietly taking requests from web users who want to get paid to surf the web using the Chrome browser while sharing data with Google. The program is called Screenwise and, though we're not aware of any official announcement, Google has a signup page at www.google.com/landing/screenwisepanel. The page explains that Google wants to create a panel of people to help it "learn more about how everyday people use the Internet." It explains that panel members have to be at least 13 years old, have (or sign up for) a Google account and use the Chrome web browser. They also have to be willin [...]

Related Topics: Google: Chrome | Google: Privacy | Google: Web Search

Google: 41 Percent Of Super Bowl Ad Searches Were Mobile

Feb 7, 2012 at 5:40pm ET by Greg Sterling

A wide range of social and mobile data are being reported by various sources in the wake of last Sunday's Super Bowl game. For example, ad network inMobi said 39 percent of survey respondents "used their mobile device in response to a TV commercial during the game" (discussing commercials, getting more information or watching TV ads again). However other sources, such as NPD Group, said that mobile usage didn't live up to the pre-game hype. But earlier today Google said that during the game, "41 percent of Google searches in the US related to Super Bowl TV ads came from mobile devices." Whi [...]

Related Topics: Google: Mobile | Google: Web Search | Top News

Google Still #1 Traffic Source For Most Of Top 30 Websites — Report

Feb 7, 2012 at 9:47am ET by Greg Sterling

This may surprise no one: Google is the leading source of traffic for 23 of the top 30 websites. That's according to Citi analyst Mark Mahaney in a document released yesterday to clients. Based on underlying comScore data, the report analyzes visits to the top five websites in several verticals: Media, Retail, Travel, Auto, Finance and Health. It doesn't discuss the impact or relative position of Facebook at all, possibly because Facebook is not yet a public company. Mahaney points out that Google's retention of the position of top traffic referrer is an accomplishment in a marketplace t [...]

Google’s January Search Update: Panda In The Pipelines, Fresher Results, Date Detection & More

Feb 3, 2012 at 5:52pm ET by Matt McGee

It's the first Friday of the month, and that seems to be when Google has decided to push out its monthly update of search tweaks from the prior month. The January update is out and it contains a few interesting nuggets. Panda In The Pipelines There's a mention of the Panda algorithm update that we wrote about last week, but it also includes a somewhat cryptic reference to being more integrated into Google's "pipelines." We improved how Panda interacts with our indexing and ranking systems, making it more integrated into our pipelines. Sounds like Panda is baked into things even mor [...]

Related Topics: Google: News | Google: SEO | Google: Web Search | Top News

Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time

Jan 28, 2012 at 12:11am ET by Danny Sullivan

Two weeks ago, Google launched Search Plus Your World. Since then, Google has faced strong criticisms that SPYW is making its search relevancy worse and favoring its Google+ social network too much. Not so, says Google search chief Amit Singhal. Most Google users are happy, Singhal said. Of course, Search Plus Your World isn't perfect, he admits, but it'll improve. As for including content from social networks like Twitter and Facebook, Google's open to that, as long as long-term deals can be reached that give Google faith it can build new features that will last. I talked today wi [...]

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