Kayak Introduces Hotel Booking

Kayak launches a new and interesting feature for the customers to carry out their hotel bookings. They can now book their hotels directly on the website.

Kayak.com is a travel search site. They provide help to the customers all over the world to find the best travel choices easily by searching the information from hundreds of travel sites at once.

Kayak is now partnering with Travelocity to add a new feature of hotel booking on its website. It gives a direct option to book the hotels of your choice. It provides the customers a perfect comparison of various hotels at the destination of their choice with some basic information like check-in and out date along with rooms to be booked and number of people. This new feature saves time and provides all information at one particular site.

Earlier you had to search for particular hotels in required destination and then go through the website of that hotel for your bookings. But now Kayak search engine has made it much easier. Kayak's also adding the feature to its mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry and thus is getting flashed in search engine news.

Our users value that we give them choices on where to book, though some people would prefer to complete their purchases without leaving Kayak," CEO Steve Hafner said in a statement.

Google Tool to Block Websites

Google has recently added an update in its search results. This search engine update is to target those websites which you don’t like. These can be sites which are offensive, contain pornographic materials, low quality, etc. This search engine news

was posted on Google's Blog recently.

Here it is how it works.

When you search a query, many results appear. Till now, search results used to show cached and similar options. From this update onwards, users can see 'Block all (example.com) results'. This options when turned on gets connected to your Google Account. 

Here you can confirm your site that needs to be blocked. The number of blocked results appear at the bottom of the search results, which you can see when you turn on an option to 'Show blocked results' This new feature will be available for Chrome 9+, IE8+ and Firefox 3.5+ in google.com but will soon be available to all local domains.

In this update from Google, the Google blog says that the main reason for this update is to give control over the results, get more personalized searches and a good search experience.

Blekko Changes Algorithm for its Search Engine Results

The upcoming search engine, Blekko is a better way to search the web by using slashtags. A slashtag is a tool to filter search results, rather than searching the entire web, a slashtag allows you to search just the sites you want searched.

As Google changed its algorithm for Content Farms which was emphasized in search engine news, similarly Blekko is changing its algorithm for low quality sites. Earlier they had banned about 20 websites but now they are banning 1.1 million websites from its search engines. They are blocking those particular websites which have less content and overflooded with ads.

“Google didn’t actually take anyone out, they just reshuffled the deck,” said Rich Skrenta, chief executive of Blekko. “Instead of demoting these sites to No. 5 or No. 7, we’re just throwing them out.”

Search engines have variety of ways to decide which sites are high-quality and which are low-quality. Google does it algorithmically whereas Blekko uses more involvement of peoples. Examples of the sites Blekko now bans: cheap-refrigerators.net, best-weddinggifts and Boston.diningguide.com.

Blekko is trying its best to debar those websites, which comprise keywords often used by the users so that the websites rank higher, in order to gain income when some user clicks on the ads present on the website.

Social Shopping for Bing Search

After many recent updated from Bing, this is a new update from Bing for shoppers. Microsoft said that it is partnering with the Dealmap. This search engine update will offers its US users to get access to more than 200,000 offers in about 14,000 towns and cities across US.

This will help users to find the best bargain related to every possible thing ranging from meals to classes to apperals and many more. This alliance between the companies will let advertisers to reach both desktop and mobile users.

 This new deal will let people to emerge into social shopping and group based shopping. This will allow customers to get benefits from offers and discounts on goods and services.

In the Bing Community Blog titled Bing Launches Deals they said that it was Dealmap made more sense than creating their own program for social shopping. Various updates and search engine news from Bing like Bing Bar, Bing Games, tie up with facebook etc are proving a threat to the giant Google. Both the search engines are trying strategically to improve the experience of users so that they can ive their best to users.

Google Recipe Search Results

Today’s generation has the ability and interest in cooking variety of dishes. But a proper source was not available yet. But now Google has introduced a new feature for all food lovers. Google Recipe View helps you to find various recipes worldwide.

Earlier the various spices and ingredients were added according to their own judgment but it’s difficult for a new learner. But Google recipe view helps to solve this problem out. To get to Recipe View, click on the “Recipes” link on the left hand side of the page when searching for a recipe. You can constrict your search results and can find only recipes instead of other web results. Google recipe view guides you with exact quantity of ingredients, ratings and even displays with delicious recipe pictures. One can modify the search results to show recipes with your ingredients, cooking time and calorie count.

You can search of specific vegetarian recipes like Pulao, stuffing’s as well as non vegetarian recipes like Chicken Chilly or Chicken Roast and other dishes like Pizza, Pasta, soups etc.

Google Recipe View 

Thus the cooking lovers are very happy with the new features. They are now able to experiment with new recipes. They can invent new dishes and can find new updates on the latest search engine news.

Bing Pops Up On The 2nd Position

In the search engines market all over the world, Microsoft Bing has overtaken Yahoo! for the first time. According to Web Analytics company StatCounter, since the month of January Bing ranks on the 2nd position in the search engines worldwide. Microsoft Bing is striking the headlines in all search engine news. 

 Google's global market share in February was 89.94% -- followed by Bing at 4.37% and Yahoo at 3.93%. There is a decrease in Google’s market share but yet there is a lot difference between Google and its various competitors. Well both yahoo and Bing have to go a long way to compete with Google.

Because of many advancements and initiatives that Bing is taking to give more user friendly results, Bing has started to gain more and more market share. Bing has introduced various features in its toolbar for IE like mail, weather, news updates etc. 

StatCounter tracks the Market Share of Search Engines, Browsers and Operating Systems including Mobile from over 15 billion monthly page views. StatCounter's report is based on aggregate data collected on a sample of over 15 billion page views per month. Hence some kind of contradictory results may appear. Bing is on a rise and hence Google, yahoo and other search engines must be very conscious about their positions. Microsoft Bing is hitting the headlines in all search engine news.