Search Technology

The search behaviors of nearly 500,000 people from 50 countries has shed new light on how mood, gender, education, culture and where we live influences how we sate our curiosity and seek knowledge. So we ask: Are you a hunter, busybody or a dancer?

Advances in electronics combined with our finely tuned ability to lose stuff has seen the market for wireless tracking sensor systems expand rapidly in recent times. Lupo is a versatile item finder that's also a security solution and a Bluetooth remote controller for smartphones and other devices.

A new app, soft-launched last week at DLD Conference, aims to take a contextual and personalized approach to managing a user's contacts. Humin does away with the standard alphabetical contacts list and organizes contacts in a way that's said to be similar to the human brain.

Button TrackR helps users track their cherished objects and innovates with crowd sourced tracking.

The StickNFind system uses a smartphone app and coin-like adhesive tags to find lost items.

Kinsight is an experimental system that uses networked Kinect cameras to locate missing objects within a household.

The new PicAnswers.com website uses visual rather than word clues to offer a solution to identifying objects, people, places paintings - anything you can photograph.

September 4, 2007 BMW has announced it’s enriching its ConnectedDrive in-car navigation system with a direct hookup to Google's Local Search. The console o

June 22, 2007 Keyword-based search engines are a huge compromise; think for a moment about the tricks you need to use to get a good specific result from Google.