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Google Noticeboard – A Firefox Add-On By Google India Labs

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Google India Labs has launched a new tool called Google Noticeboard. This is a Firefox extension, which according to its homepage, “enables community members to exchange information over the Internet without an intermediary.”

“Google Noticeboard is an application that helps people access and share information over the Internet using public digital noticeboards. Using Google Noticeboard, communities can access a variety of relevant information. People can create text messages or record voice snippets and post them to one or more noticeboards.”

Below are the step as how to use the latest tool:

Search Queries Are Getting Longer- Hitwise

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

According to the report of Hitwise Data (PDF FILE), a majority (almost 50 percent) search queries are at least three words long, and more than a third are four words long or even longer than that.

Based on the report, it can be said that today, most Internet users are extending their search queries in different search engines. Have a look at the following table, which will give you a deeper insight regarding the same:

In the table, it is shown that 1- and 2- word queries are becoming less common, and 4, 5, up to 8 words queries are becoming more common.

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