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Microsoft joins AMP project with Bing results showing them off

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Jules Wang

Facebook has them. So does Google. And now Bing can join in on the fast lane.Microsoft announced that Bing would start officially linking to Accelerated Mobile Pages within its applicable search results. Content partners in the open source project will have their AMP articles — optimized HTML pages for easy, no-nonsense reading — load from close-by servers. Non-AMP pages will be called upon when ...

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App subscriptions just part of series of changes Phil Schiller to make to App Store

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Jules Wang

Apple’s App Store makes so much money from fewer downloads than Google’s Play Store. So, why change a revenue sharing model with developers that has worked for eight years? Because Phil Schiller is betting that it will end up making Apple more money.Schiller revealed to The Verge that developers can soon activate app access subscriptions on their products from any category — including games. Apple will continue to take 30 percent of the revenue, but if a customer ...

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Accelerated Mobile Pages comes to Google iOS app

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Jules Wang

Quick. Fast. Instant. But unlike noodles, news articles shouldn’t take two minutes to load. That’s why companies like Facebook and Google have been offering up speedy-loading optimizations to content providers — with a share of the click revenue, of course.Google has been keeping its Accelerated Mobile Pages to Android users, but not anymore — version 15.1 of its iOS search app now has it. Users just need to look out ...

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Apple Music search confused, leaves users the same

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Jules Wang

I’m not paying y’all $9.99 for my search not to be working, what is the problem @AppleMusic? — Terra (@Ms_Marshall) February 1, 2016Apple Music, after the debut, the trials by fire and the death glares, now has a ...

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Google Drive makes it ‘super easy’ to find your cloud stored files, regardless of origin

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Adrian Diaconescu

Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, or Google Drive? Tough choice for digital hoarders looking to stack up their essential files in the most accessible, safest and cheapest environment, especially after Redmond inexplicably downgraded free space allotment, also scrapping its ...

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Google updates technology behind voice search to improve speed and accuracy

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Jaime Rivera

Google’s Voice Search services have garnered a lot of fame over the last couple of years, not just because it can do voice searches in a more accurate way than competitors, but because the service predicts a ton of things before you ask it anything through Google Now. Google’s main business is really to be a search engine, so accurate results are necessary for users to rely on its technology when in need. Today the company has announced new changes that should make its service even better.Google has just updated the technology behind its voice search services with the idea of ...

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OK Google hotword detection goes system-wide in Search update

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Stephen Schenck

Google’s “OK Google” hotword detection makes using Search a breeze, giving you a hands-free way to initiate things. Its biggest limitation, though, has been just how narrow the scope of where you can use it really is: only from the home screen or within the Search app itself. Two months back (to the day, in fact) we first heard the rumors that “OK Google Everywhere” would be coming to Search in the future, expanding that hotword detection

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Google Search now shows recipe ingredient checklists when searching for food

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Rithvik Rao

Have you ever searched for a food item using Google, and thought to yourself how much nicer the experience would be if you could narrow your search by ingredients? Neither have we, but we definitely can think of situations where having this possibly-new feature of Google Search could be handy.By searching for a food item, heading into Search tools, and tapping “Ingredients,” you’ll be sent to a checklist with ingredients for that particular food item — handy for those with allergies. The example provided by a ...

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Google Search sets timer with voice command now, instead of alarm

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Rithvik Rao

In the past, if you decided that you want to ask Google verbally to set a timer, it would set an alarm instead (though with the correct timing). It’s not always the most convenient to set an alarm, especially when there is an option in the stock Android clock for a timer. Finally, these voice commands correctly redirect to set a timer. We’ve been able to independently verify this, and although we don’t know how long this has been in effect exactly, it is a welcome feature for sure. We’re just pleased that we did not have to wait on an app update (or even a full OS ...

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