A Completely New Landing Page for Bing Image Search

Earlier this week Bing has introduced a totally new landing page for its Image Search Results. You will found completely new ways to browse images in this landing page. This attractive new image search page seems very attractive with new features like image collage or filters by color, layout, size, composition, style, people and so on.

You can also see a snapshot of most popular image searches on Bing. On the top of the page, you will see a tab suggesting more searches which helps you in discovering more images.

You will find a fresh and new image search experience with this Bing image search update. Visit Bing's New Image Search Landing Page now and experience the differences.

Algorithm Change Launched: Google’s Fight with Spam Starts

Today the head of Google’s Webspam team, Matt Cutts has announced a new algorithm change for Google. It will help in detecting and reducing web spam from Google’s Search Results. All websites which have low original content or copied content will be affected by this change. They can see a major change in their site rankings in search results.

Cutts mentioned this algo change was approved at weekly quality launch meeting happened on last Thursday and launched this week.

Cutts has announced it on his blog and also posted it at Hacker News. According to his blog “slightly over 2% of queries change in some way, but less than half a percent of search results change enough that someone might really notice. The net effect is that searchers are more likely to see the sites that wrote the original content rather than a site that scraped or copied the original site’s content.”

Cutts said they have re-designed a new document-level classifier, which will easily detect spammy & repeated words. This is the start of Google’s fight towards increasing web spam.

Larry’s Enter as Google CEO on 4th April 2011

On January 20, 2011 Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has made an announcement through his post “An update from the Chairman” on Google’s Official Blog.

According to Eric “Larry will now lead product development and technology strategy, his greatest strengths, and starting from April 4 he will take charge of our day-to-day operations as Google’s Chief Executive Officer. In this new role I know he will merge Google’s technology and business vision brilliantly. I am enormously proud of my last decade as CEO, and I am certain that the next 10 years under Larry will be even better! Larry, in my clear opinion, is ready to lead.”

Eric Schmidt has joined Google in 2001, from last 10 years Google search has changed people’s life. Now, Eric will work as an advisor to Larry & Sergey. Apart from that Sergey will focus his time and efforts on strategic projects, basically new projects.

Let’s wish luck to Larry for new search improvements in future.

4th Annual Doodle 4 Google Contest Begins

Google Inc has kicked off the 4th Annual Doodle 4 Google Contest. The theme of this contest is "What I'd like to do someday". All U.S. K-12 students are invited to participate in this contest. Google will reward an amount of $15,000 scholarship to the child who wins this contest. Also child’s school will get an amount of $25,000.

The Doodle which wins the contest will be featured on Google’s Home Page on May 20, 2011 for 24 hours. All the students must get registered by March 2, 2011.

Click here for registration.

Google will announce following prizes for this contest:

• One National Winner 
• Three National Finalists
• Forty Regional Finalists
• Four Hundred State Finalists
• Two After School Program Awards

Guest Judges will include:

• Whoopi Goldberg, Award Winning Actress
• Jim Davis, Creator, "Garfield" Comic Strip 
• Evan Lysacek, Gold Medalist & World Champion, Ice Skating 
• Paul Tibbitt, Executive Producer, "SpongeBob SquarePants" 
• Jeff Kinney, Author, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" 
• Tony Cervone, Supervising Producer, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated & The Looney Tunes Show, Warner Bros. Animation 
• Beverly Cleary, Author & Illustrator, Children’s Books 
• Maira Kalman, Author & Illustrator, Children’s Books 
• Scott McCloud, Cartoonist and various other illustrators, animators etc.

Visit Doodle 4 Google for more information.