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Participants were shown the main web search results pane of both Bing and Google for 10 search queries of their choice. Bing and Google search results were shown side-by-side on one page for easy comparison - with all branding removed from both search engines. at the end of 5 searches it will tell you which search engine you prefer

The new features, styled Search plus Your World, were announced on a blog post today and come in three prongs. The first is the inclusion of "personal results" in the return to search queries. These results are based on what a user has shared through pictures on Picasa and on Google+ posts.  The second item in Google's new bag of tricks is a new type of search results that can flush out friends who have common names.  The final new feature is called People and Places and aspires to offer a sense of community by returning a list of new connections in response to generic queries like "music" or "baseball." 

"Google's "Smartphone Launch Predictor" study found that 52 percent of purchase-related searches occur before a smartphone is launched. According to Google, the key to a successful smartphone launch is getting ahead of the release and marketing early. "One of the biggest factors is getting early buzz. Getting early buzz is key [for a successful smartphone launch]," Google Industry Director for Tech Kyle Keogh told ClickZ. The study found that the earlier a firm markets a smartphone the more likely they are to succeed in sales. According to Google, an extra 1,000 news stories put in place weeks before a launch can lead to a 9 percent spike in smartphone sales. Google's research discovered that users tend to do general product searches in the week during launch. After launch, it was discovered that consumers dig deep and search for key specifications on a device. Video is also becoming a key research tool for consumers shopping for a smartphone. According to the study, video views for smartphones increased 60 percent this year. Google says that if a smartphone gets over 1 million video views during launch week it will likely sell over 1.3 million units."

Mobile - search or display? Worldwide, most marketers are choosing search

Streaming search means that each time you type a new word, the results change. Pretty cool. Article attempts to debunk the idea that this will be helpful in any way. But I think it could be. Those of us that are good with search know to try lots of different combinations for any particular need. This streamlines that process to a degree.

another aspect of streaming search is streaming ads- as you type in a phrase to search, ads adjust accordingly.

Application of semantic web to improvement of web search - specifically, creating a recipe search engine. Search agencies may be able to get new business by helping businesses optimize for similar searche engines along multiple verticals.

Google Correlate lets you look at search data correlated with real world data. Let's say that you wanted to plot how many people were searching for "sad light therapy" against the latitude of their location. Bam. It's done. Graphic above.

"But advertisers have loads of their own offline data from existing customers that they have not been able to use to target search ads. Conversions API allows those advertisers to upload phone numbers and in-store purchase data and use that information to target search ads through DoubleClick, Google's search ad system. Google's announcement was thin on details. It says advertisers can now "upload new conversions to account for in-store transactions, call-tracking, or other offline activities, or edit existing conversions to account for discounts, returns, credit, or fraud.""

partnered with google to get the most misspelled search terms -- snickers purchased 25k misspelled search terms and delivered paid ads against them

- Truthdive reports that 700,000 Droid smartphones are activated daily; - Mobile searches, according to Google, increased by 400 percent in 2011; - Digital Buzz reports that half of all Internet searches are conducted on mobile devices; - Fifty eight percent of mobile shoppers are between the ages of 18 and 34, according to Millennial Media; and, most amazingly, - Spyder Trap reports that 70 percent of mobile searches result in action within one hour.

Google is giving users the ability to block sites that annoy them from ever showing up again in their search results, via a new link next to search results.

If you've been using Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to search for subjects across the web and on Twitter at the same time, you are out of luck, for now at least. After nearly two years of cooperation, the search giant has ended a deal with the microblogging service, which means those Twitter results are no longer there.

adding nutrition info to google searches

best practices for optimizing videos for youtube search

Citi analyst Mark Mahney says that a recent comScore search market report glosses over the fact that mobile now constitutes 10% of Google searches. 

Bing wants to do away with the days of "10 blue links." We sat down with Brian MacDonald, Microsoft's corporate vice president for core search program management, to find out how Bing hopes to re-design what we're looking for--and how we look.