News & Reviews:   search

Today, Microsoft announced that the new Bing is now in open preview and no longer has a waitlist. With this, more people will get to experience the AI-powered Bing and there are other updates too coming from the company. This includes opening up the platform to developers and third parties, and many more.  

The FIFA World Cup 2022 kicked off yesterday. Not only is Google offering us a scoreboard to keep track of the matches, but it also launched a mini-game for us to kill off some time.

Google Senior Vice President (VP) Prabhakar Raghavan has revealed that TikTok and Instagram are becoming competitors to its core services, Search and Maps. During a discussion about the evolution of search, Prabhakar revealed that younger users are now turning to TikTok and Instagram instead of Google services for discovery purposes.

Twitter is reportedly adding a new feature into its mobile app that allows users to get notifications when there are new tweets that match a particular search term. Called ‘Search Subscribe’, the new feature was found inside the latest version of Twitter Alpha.

Reddit has evolved by allowing users to get comments as search results for the very first time. With the update, when users search for something on the site, it is no longer restricted to the original posts, communities, and individual users.

Have you ever tried to look up something on Google Search and can’t quite describe in words what exactly you’re looking? Well, the tech giant now has a new feature to help you with just that, which allows users to search using text and images at the same time.

Announced by Search Product Manager, Belinda Zeng via a Google blogpost yesterday, the new feature is called ‘multisearch’ and will be embedded within Google Lens. First teased by Google in its ‘Search ON’ event in September last year, the multisearch feature is available as a beta in English within the United States starting yesterday.

Other than presenting a recap on what we search for in a year, Google has sorted out the top 10 trending searches for the first month of 2021 in Malaysia. Furthermore, it is also presenting the search interests for Chinese New Year surfaced from Google Trends to show how excited Malaysians are for the upcoming celebration!

It seems that Google has recently released a list of the top 10 most searched keywords by Malaysians for the month of March 2020. Unsurprisingly, the Dalgona Coffee recipe, as well as COVID-19, are among the top searched keywords on Google.

Have you ever mispronounced a word in front of others and felt embarrassed about it? This new Google feature is here to help you with that problem! Now, if you have a hard time pronouncing a word, you can just google ‘How to pronounce (the word)?’ and you’ll get the correct pronunciation right from Google.