Google India launched free voice-based internet search facility on mobiles, built entirely by the Google’s India engineering team. Th is feature is currently available for 400,000 Blackberry cellphone users only. This search service is currently available only in English. To use the voice-based mobile search, a user log on to the internet on the handset, open Google search page, and “ask” for a particular location, like pizza joint, taxi stand or florist while driving a vehicle. Read full story »
iXiGO, the online travel search engine, launched its bus search tool, enabling search, comparison and booking of bus tickets from multiple bus operators and bus booking sites in India. Using the tool, deals from multiple sites can be compared on a single platform. iXiGO has partnered Ticketvala, redBus and TicketGoose online bus booking sites to
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BPL Mobile has launched a quick local search service, called ‘Mumbai Search @cafe’, for its subscribers in the Mumbai city. Subscribers can search for hangout places, restaurants, etc. in the city with the help of the latest service. The facility that enables to search nearby grocery shop or laundry will also help people in Mumbai
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A dynamic URL typically passes parameters to the page as key-value pair and contains question mark (?), ampersand (&) and equal symbol(=).
CMS and blogging platforms such as Joomla and WordPress provides URL rewriting options, which will convert parameterised URLs into a static-look alike.
During the early days of Search Engines, the crawlers were not able to
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Google Audio Indexing is a Google Labs pilot project that uses its own speech recognition system, called GAudi, to find spoken words inside videos, and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken.
Google Audio Indexing for the US Elections is a showcase for speech technology. You can
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