In August, the Official Google Blog announced an upgrade to Google’s infrastructure code-named Caffeine, aimed at making the search engine faster, and Google opened the system up for testing to people who might want to provide feedback. An interview...

Usually, when you click on a link in a set of search results at Google, the search engine will deliver you to the top of a web page. But what if it didn’t? What if it brought you instead to the place on a page where your query terms appeared, or just...

Google was granted a patent today on one aspect of a book scanning process that raises the question what kind of music helps someone scan books best. The patent is Pacing and error monitoring of manual page turning operator (US Patent 7,619,784),...

If you were to search for at Google or Yahoo or Bing, would you expect to see a list of movies that the former President and actor appeared in? It’s more likely that you would see a set of web pages that contain the words “Ronald” and “Reagan” and...

The term “User Generated Content,” often abbreviated as “UGC,” covers a fairly broad range of the words and pictures, images and videos and sounds that you see and hear on the Web. One thing that tends to distinguish “User Generated Content” from...