Unlike search engines that run on keywords, sites such as Hunch, Answers.com, Mahalo and ChaCha, aim to deliver results tailored to specific human situations. Hunch, for example, asks users a series ...

Google has shared some details around search features it has launched throughout the year that helps searchers search for what it thinks they are looking for. In short, Google is giving us more ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Google wants you to search more, and to do that, it’s launching a number of updates to Chrome on mobile today that will, among other things, highlight potential search queries related to a page you ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

The change has SEOs questioning which sites will win and which will lose, but one thing is certain: Nobody is going to stop optimizing for featured snippets. In November, contextual links began ...

Contextual-search browser add-on, which helps users highlight text and quickly search various Web services without leaving a page, opens up to developers. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now ...

The semantic web is a trend for search engines to deliver more contextual search results by incorporated social web network data. But first, at this Northern Liberties event, there was talk of ...