We’re all quite familliar with the autocomplete feature of Google. However it seems that autocomplete does not work properly on a specific set of keywords. Try to search for bittorrent or any term related to scientology or Falung Dafa. Google is not properly helping you out with any suggestion.
If a certain set of keyword seem to have magically disappeared from the autocomplete feature, a large number of compromising keywords is still available to autocomplete. Here’s a few examples:
Some reactions from here:
Google won’t autocomplete searches for “bittorrent,” but if you are interesting in learning how to kidnap someone, make meth, build a bomb, cheat on your taxes, or shoplift, they will happily autocomplete your search for you.
A good bunch of suggestion for what you might to look for on the internet…
I don’t know if any of this will really happen, but in most cases it’s most than just gut feeling:
1 – Smartphones will finally overtake desktop pc in sales. It’s no news, this has been going on for a while, most smartphone can easily replace desktop for the most essential tasks. Moreover most telco sales pitch uses the phone itself as a driver to sell they’re plans, no wonder if we would see an increase in sales topping current desktop pc sales.
2 – Google to buy Twitter for 4billion dollars – This isn’t news either, rumors have been spreading in the past few months and is probably time for the guys at Twitter to settle down and seriously think about the future.
Moreover, with no idea about a solid and viable business model, they just look like a easy prey for Google.
3 – Android will grow stronger, Nokia in need of a new strategy, Apple will need to face new challanges – The rise of Android screwed up the centralized model of Apple with his iPhone and iTunes platform, Nokia certainly need to invest in innovation and new product or die. Mobile as we knew it are dead, long live to the mobile!
4 – Yahoo! will look for a new CEO – Yahoo! has to finally found is formula, if they already lost quite of a long time a go the search engine war, they need to find someone brave enough to push on innovation.
Quite of a interesting situation though, will see what happens, it’s gonna be fun for sure! And if you wondered how thing actually changed in the past 10 years, that a look at this infographic.
It’s quite of a surprise but it seems that Google has just added a tiny line of text into his homepage in order to launch a new HTC mobile with Google Android.
Until now, the ad is displayed only in the italian and spanish mirrors:
This is Google.it homepage:
This is Google.es:
The links goes to a Google Landing page which describes the HTC Mobile features. On this page there’s a another link which goes straight to the vendor’s ecommerce page.
Search the original Google algorithm and show side-by-side comparisons to Caffeine.
Last week Google announced a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search, called Caffeine.
They also kidnly asked users to contribute in the effort of benchmarking the new technology providing some feedback on their searches through this URL:
http://www2.sandbox.google.com/
Anyway, a few days ago a new service has been released which compares in real time results from both Google and Google Caffeine: GoogleCompare.
I’m not going to explain any more about the service since it’s pretty straightforward: the whole thing has a funny retro-style, kind of coffe adverts from the ’50s. It’s quite funny. Then you just type your keyword and click on brew and you get a quick comparison eventually showing how SERPs have changed due to the new algorithm.
So how did your ranking changed due to the update? I’ve have not experienced any major change in my rankings. However search speed has increased a lot… I guess that was the main effort behind the development of Caffeine.
I’ll keep an eye on Caffeine for the next few days if anything changes…
A few days aho I wrote a post about the rising importance of real-time search and Google and Bing crawling content from Twitter.
Now Microsoft has just released an interesting search tool called BingTweets: it’s a real time Twitter search engine with a pretty crowded front panel showing all cross references between standard and dynamic real-time search.
It’s definetely something Google should think about. It’s also interesting how the mixed the standard search results with the Twitter search results, giving a complete feedback over search on different sources.
What people has predicted since Twitter start hitting the news has become true: Twitter is not turning into a search engine but its content is considered valuable by search engines.
Despite all the Twitter-mania-hype (absolutely unnecessary but media needs something to blabber about right?) I guess Twitter is slowly finding out its real nature: a real-time updated source of “what’s going on” in the world, reflecting the current vibe of the net, an extremely dynamic and constantly updated source of useless content. That’s it. There’s nothing really valuable in most twitts: the thing is the reflect what’s going on in the world.
That’s why a real-time search is growing day by day. It’s the vibrating pulse of the net, and being able to rummage through all this garbage gives the advantage to know the present and the very next future of the net.
