Personalized search is something that we all know Google feels strongly about. Today, the search giant is adding a new feature to help users mark searches: Stars. So when you see search results, you can …

As the smack down between Apple and Adobe continues, Virgin America has dumped Flash from its website because of the lack of iPhone support. Virgin’s new website, which launched Monday, replaces Flash with HTML to …

Speaking this afternoon at the search-obsessed SMX West conference in Santa Clara, Horling – a developer with Google’s personalized search team – said that up to one in five searches are tailored to the user’s particular location, web history, or online contacts. “As it stands today,” Horling explained, “between these three techniques, just about every user who’s engaging with Google search today is affected.”

Google research head Peter Norvig says that the search giant’s hallowed PageRank link analysis algorithm is overrated. And always has been.
“One thing that I think is still over-hyped is PageRank,” Norvig said this morning during …

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The Examiner is reporting that the iPad will go on sale in the US on Friday, March 26th. They cite “inside sources” with confirmation from an Apple Store manager in Southern California who wishes not …