http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Other Search Engines Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Tue, 29 May 2012 01:07:01 GMT Tue, 29 May 2012 01:07:01 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Does-Social-Better-than-Google-It-s-Not-Going-to-Be-Enough-269111.shtml Google is not the only search engine going social, Bing is taking the big plunge after dipping in toe in it last year. Microsoft has just announced a massive social overhaul, one that adds a lot more social features but, thankfully, also pushes them to the side, literally, away from the regular search results.

The rede... (read more)]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 16:21:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Does-Social-Better-than-Google-It-s-Not-Going-to-Be-Enough-269111.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Does-Social-Better-than-Google-It-s-Not-Going-to-Be-Enough-269111.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Privacy-Conscious-Google-Alternative-DuckDuckGo-Triples-Traffic-in-Three-Months-262093.shtml
DuckDuckGo has been seeing quite an increase in traffic in the past couple of months and we know that for sure since the site publishes traffic numbers.

We've been following the accelerated growth for a while now, but it seems that it's now gotten some more attentio... (read more)]]> Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:31:02 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Privacy-Conscious-Google-Alternative-DuckDuckGo-Triples-Traffic-in-Three-Months-262093.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Privacy-Conscious-Google-Alternative-DuckDuckGo-Triples-Traffic-in-Three-Months-262093.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Gains-Are-Offset-by-Yahoo-Losses-in-February-258079.shtml It's not much of a surprise or a revelation that Google dominates the search market. As much as Microsoft has been trying to change things, Google actually grew a bit in the last year, by one percentage point.

Google owned 66.4 percent of the search market in the US in February, according to comScore numbers. That's just for the des... (read more)]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:54:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Gains-Are-Offset-by-Yahoo-Losses-in-February-258079.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Gains-Are-Offset-by-Yahoo-Losses-in-February-258079.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Asks-Users-to-Link-Their-Online-Profiles-Together-254680.shtml People may be critical of Google's move to add a social component to search and the company may be moving too aggressively and too narrowly, focusing on Google+ alone. But everyone recognizes that search engines need a social component.

Microsoft may be screaming its lungs out over Google's latest moves, all the while it's add... (read more)]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:54:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Asks-Users-to-Link-Their-Online-Profiles-Together-254680.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Asks-Users-to-Link-Their-Online-Profiles-Together-254680.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Continues-to-Grow-Bing-Powered-Search-Shrinks-for-Another-Month-252104.shtml Google has gained market share for the second month in a row, while Yahoo continues to bleed. Bing has solidified its number two spot and distanced itself from Yahoo, though mostly because Yahoo is continuing to fall and not because Bing is gaining.

Google finished January with a 66.2 percent market share, as de... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:22:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Continues-to-Grow-Bing-Powered-Search-Shrinks-for-Another-Month-252104.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Continues-to-Grow-Bing-Powered-Search-Shrinks-for-Another-Month-252104.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-s-Aurora-Borealis-Video-Highlights-HTML5-Video-Issues-249731.shtml
Aurora Borealis is a fascinating phenomenon, both in its beauty but also in the science behind it.

The really interesting part this time though, is behind the scenes in the way Bing has chosen to display the video, via HTML5. That's hardly surprising, Bing has been boa... (read more)]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:41:01 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-s-Aurora-Borealis-Video-Highlights-HTML5-Video-Issues-249731.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-s-Aurora-Borealis-Video-Highlights-HTML5-Video-Issues-249731.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Overtakes-Yahoo-Search-in-the-US-for-the-First-Time-246150.shtml Bing has done it, it's finally overtaken Yahoo Search. It may not be much of a victory, since Bing powers both search engines, but Microsoft will take anything it gets at this point.

The software giant has been at it for many, many years and it has only now broken through the 15 percent market share mark. What's even more pai... (read more)]]> Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:21:01 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Overtakes-Yahoo-Search-in-the-US-for-the-First-Time-246150.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Overtakes-Yahoo-Search-in-the-US-for-the-First-Time-246150.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-Is-the-Year-s-Top-Searched-Term-for-the-Third-Year-in-a-Row-242714.shtml Google, Yahoo and Bing have revealed this year's top searches, as seen from their perspective. Google shows that "Google+" is the second fastest growing search term on the site. Yahoo revealed that the "iPhone" was the "top search term."

Bing doesn't have an overall top, but the most searched for person was Justin... (read more)]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:21:01 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-Is-the-Year-s-Top-Searched-Term-for-the-Third-Year-in-a-Row-242714.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-Is-the-Year-s-Top-Searched-Term-for-the-Third-Year-in-a-Row-242714.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Justin-Bieber-Is-the-Most-Searched-Person-on-Bing-in-2011-237049.shtml It's not even December yet, but the yearly roundups are beginning to show up. Bing is listing some of the top searches in several categories in 2011, even though there's one more month to go. But Yahoo and Google both reveal the yearly statistics about this time, so you can't fault Microsoft on this one.

Bing isn't revealing a... (read more)]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:11:01 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Justin-Bieber-Is-the-Most-Searched-Person-on-Bing-in-2011-237049.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Justin-Bieber-Is-the-Most-Searched-Person-on-Bing-in-2011-237049.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yandex-Will-Be-the-Default-Search-Engine-on-Windows-Phone-in-Russia-236737.shtml Yandex, the biggest search engine in Russia and the biggest web company in the country, has announced a rather big move, it is now becoming the default search engine on Windows Phone devices selling in Russia.

It's a big win and it's very interesting that Microsoft would allow this, after all, it's firing on all cyli... (read more)]]> Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:41:02 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yandex-Will-Be-the-Default-Search-Engine-on-Windows-Phone-in-Russia-236737.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yandex-Will-Be-the-Default-Search-Engine-on-Windows-Phone-in-Russia-236737.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Data-Confirms-Solid-Growth-for-Google-Search-in-the-US-Last-Month-227531.shtml
Determining exactly how many people use one search engine to the detriment of others, while technically an exact science, takes quite a bit of guess-work as well. What's more, the 'market' itself ... (read more)]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:41:02 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Data-Confirms-Solid-Growth-for-Google-Search-in-the-US-Last-Month-227531.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Data-Confirms-Solid-Growth-for-Google-Search-in-the-US-Last-Month-227531.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Russian-Search-Engine-Yandex-Invests-in-Search-Startup-Blekko-224579.shtml Yandex, Russia's top search engine, has led an investment round in Blekko, the upstart search engine that aims to bring curated results with some help from users and experts.

Yandex, joined by other new and existing investors, will pour $30 million, 22 million Euro, into the small search engine. Arkady Volozh, founder of Y... (read more)]]> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:11:02 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Russian-Search-Engine-Yandex-Invests-in-Search-Startup-Blekko-224579.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Russian-Search-Engine-Yandex-Invests-in-Search-Startup-Blekko-224579.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Russia-s-Yandex-Ventures-Out-of-the-Motherland-Launches-in-Turkey-222646.shtml Yandex, the popular Russian search engine and portal, is expanding into its first non-Russian speaking country, Turkey. While geographically close to Russia, Turkey will be a unique challenge for Yandex which has flourished in its home market, but hasn't tried its luck elsewhere so far, until now.

Yandex opened an ... (read more)]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:10:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Russia-s-Yandex-Ventures-Out-of-the-Motherland-Launches-in-Turkey-222646.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Russia-s-Yandex-Ventures-Out-of-the-Motherland-Launches-in-Turkey-222646.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-s-Adaptive-Search-Personalizes-Results-Based-on-Interests-from-Previous-Queries-221915.shtml Bing's market share may not show it, but Microsoft has a solid product with its newest search engine. And it's improving it all the time, Bing has now introduced a new technology, dubbed Adaptive Search, which personalizes search results based on your previous queries.

Both Bing and Google person... (read more)]]> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:31:01 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-s-Adaptive-Search-Personalizes-Results-Based-on-Interests-from-Previous-Queries-221915.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-s-Adaptive-Search-Personalizes-Results-Based-on-Interests-from-Previous-Queries-221915.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-s-Search-Share-Declines-but-It-s-Still-in-a-Comfortable-Position-221755.shtml As has been the case for quite a while now, the search market is rather stable, in terms of market share and Google, while not gaining anything for the past year or more isn't loosing much share either.

All the while, the search market is growing overall, so Google, along with everyone else, is seeing more search... (read more)]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:55:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-s-Search-Share-Declines-but-It-s-Still-in-a-Comfortable-Position-221755.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-s-Search-Share-Declines-but-It-s-Still-in-a-Comfortable-Position-221755.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/In-a-year-Bing-and-Yahoo-Gain-Almost-4-Market-Share-Away-from-Google-221087.shtml
That day is not here yet, but it may be just a bit closer. Bing-powered search has managed to gain 4 percent points in the past year, according to the latest data from Experian Hitwise.

That may not seem like much, but any headway into Google's dominance is a victory. At this rate, Bing could end u... (read more)]]> Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:01:02 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/In-a-year-Bing-and-Yahoo-Gain-Almost-4-Market-Share-Away-from-Google-221087.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/In-a-year-Bing-and-Yahoo-Gain-Almost-4-Market-Share-Away-from-Google-221087.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Renews-Twitter-Deal-While-Google-Is-Betting-All-Its-Chips-on-Google-220705.shtml Microsoft and Twitter have decided to extend the deal which gave Bing access to the entire Twitter data firehose. The two companies made the announcement in a novel way, via a conversation on Twitter. Bing has been surfacing tweets in the search results, when relevant, based on direct access to data from Twitter.

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"More than 17.1 billion explicit core searches were conducted in July, up 3 percent versus the prior month," the analytics company wrote.

"Google Sites ranked first with 11.2 billion searches (up 2 percen... (read more)]]> Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:40:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Powers-Two-Thirds-of-Searches-in-the-US-Bing-Almost-All-of-the-Rest-216376.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Powers-Two-Thirds-of-Searches-in-the-US-Bing-Almost-All-of-the-Rest-216376.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-and-Bing-Struggle-Fruitlessly-to-Catch-Up-to-Google-as-July-Numbers-Show-216114.shtml The latest search market data for the US has showed up, unsurprisingly not much has changed from the previous month, Google lost a bit more market share while Yahoo gained a small amount, but overall things aren't moving very fast.

The latest numbers from comScore, which aren't public yet, indicate that th... (read more)]]> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:58:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-and-Bing-Struggle-Fruitlessly-to-Catch-Up-to-Google-as-July-Numbers-Show-216114.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-and-Bing-Struggle-Fruitlessly-to-Catch-Up-to-Google-as-July-Numbers-Show-216114.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Mixes-Sponsored-with-Organic-Search-Results-in-New-Test-213254.shtml Microsoft is testing sponsored search results mixed together with organic ones in Bing, a practice that raises ethical concerns and won't probably be very well received by users.

Sponsored links normally appear at the top of search results or on the side and are clearly marked as ads. So when analysts from Rimm-Kaufman Grou... (read more)]]> Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:45:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Mixes-Sponsored-with-Organic-Search-Results-in-New-Test-213254.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Mixes-Sponsored-with-Organic-Search-Results-in-New-Test-213254.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Baidu-to-Offer-Free-Legal-Music-via-New-Deal-with-Major-Labels-212228.shtml Baidu has announced that it has reached a deal with three major music labels to offer free and legal music for download and streaming to its users.

In return, it will remove all links to pirated music from its search results and pay for the music it offers as well as pay a cut-out of the advertising revenue, if it ex... (read more)]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:52:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Baidu-to-Offer-Free-Legal-Music-via-New-Deal-with-Major-Labels-212228.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Baidu-to-Offer-Free-Legal-Music-via-New-Deal-with-Major-Labels-212228.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Grows-a-Bit-in-June-Can-t-Budge-Google-from-Its-Throne-211543.shtml Bing is slowly creeping up in the search market in the US, but it's not really taking from Google and the progress is slow. But there is progress, that's the important part. Bing hit an all-time high in the US in June, with 14.4 percent of the market, up from 14.1 percent in May.

"Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core ... (read more)]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:21:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Grows-a-Bit-in-June-Can-t-Budge-Google-from-Its-Throne-211543.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Grows-a-Bit-in-June-Can-t-Budge-Google-from-Its-Throne-211543.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Buys-Its-Way-Into-China-with-Baidu-Search-Deal-209760.shtml The Chinese internet market, for all of its troubles, remains incredibly attractive to outside companies. With hundreds of millions of users already and only a 30 percent internet penetration rate, its size alone is enough to draw foreign companies.

But those companies are having trouble finding success in China, Google be... (read more)]]> Tue, 5 Jul 2011 09:29:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Buys-Its-Way-Into-China-with-Baidu-Search-Deal-209760.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Buys-Its-Way-Into-China-with-Baidu-Search-Deal-209760.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Yahoo-and-Microsoft-Ally-for-Standard-Structured-Data-Markup-204106.shtml Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have joined hands and created schema.org a new website which describes a new, standard structured data markup for websites. This microdata would be appended to a number of item types and provide additional info valuable to the search engines.

All three search engines have been providing in... (read more)]]> Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:52:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Yahoo-and-Microsoft-Ally-for-Standard-Structured-Data-Markup-204106.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Yahoo-and-Microsoft-Ally-for-Standard-Structured-Data-Markup-204106.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Owns-90-Percent-of-Searches-in-Latin-America-Facebook-Is-Number-Two-201113.shtml It's no secret that Google dominates the search market. It's the top search engine in most countries it's available in, pretty much all of the world, with the exception of five countries. Not only is it the top search engine, it has a huge lead.

While it may be hovering at around 65 percent market share in th... (read more)]]> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:00:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Owns-90-Percent-of-Searches-in-Latin-America-Facebook-Is-Number-Two-201113.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Owns-90-Percent-of-Searches-in-Latin-America-Facebook-Is-Number-Two-201113.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Integrates-Facebook-Like-Data-to-Counter-Google-1-Button-200740.shtml Microsoft is finally taking advantage of the privileged position it has with Facebook and is starting to use data from the social network to improve and enhance search results. The new integration brings Facebook Like button data to the search page and also taps into your social graph for personalized results.

"Today, Bing... (read more)]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 08:30:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Integrates-Facebook-Like-Data-to-Counter-Google-1-Button-200740.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Integrates-Facebook-Like-Data-to-Counter-Google-1-Button-200740.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Inches-Past-14-Percent-in-April-Google-Continues-Its-Slow-Decline-200384.shtml The search market data for April for the US is out and it paints a familiar picture. Both Google and Yahoo lost a bit of market share, while Bing continued its slow ascent. Google still has a very solid advantage and dominates with 65.4 percent of the market share. However, April was the first month that Microsoft's Bin... (read more)]]> Fri, 13 May 2011 16:00:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Inches-Past-14-Percent-in-April-Google-Continues-Its-Slow-Decline-200384.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Inches-Past-14-Percent-in-April-Google-Continues-Its-Slow-Decline-200384.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Search-Not-Affected-by-Bing-Growth-195028.shtml Bing is growing but it's not quite there yet. While it's easy to point at Bing's growth and argue that Google should be threatened, or at least take notice, most of that growth comes at the expense of Yahoo not Google.

When accounting only for explicit core searches, meaning the ones users actively and knowingly make, Bing-powered search is ... (read more)]]> Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:31:01 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Search-Not-Affected-by-Bing-Growth-195028.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Search-Not-Affected-by-Bing-Growth-195028.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Slowly-Losing-Ground-as-Bing-Powered-Search-Gets-over-30-Percent-194645.shtml While the search market is relatively stable, there are some trends that seem to be accelerating. While Google's lead in search won't be disputed for quite some time, Bing is making some progress slowly snatching away some market share.

Google Slowly Losing Ground as Bing-Powered Search Gets over 30 percent.&nbs... (read more)]]> Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:20:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Slowly-Losing-Ground-as-Bing-Powered-Search-Gets-over-30-Percent-194645.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Slowly-Losing-Ground-as-Bing-Powered-Search-Gets-over-30-Percent-194645.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Blekko-Bans-1-1-Million-Spammy-Websites-188917.shtml Blekko, the upstart search engine, has taken a much more aggressive step towards cutting down the amount of spam usually littering search results. While Google recently introduced an algorithm update that tackled the problem by demoting spammy and poor quality websites, Blekko has now removed some 1.1 million domains from ever appearing in any results pag... (read more)]]> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:15:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Blekko-Bans-1-1-Million-Spammy-Websites-188917.shtml Other Search Engines http://news.softpedia.com/news/Blekko-Bans-1-1-Million-Spammy-Websites-188917.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni)