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Microsoft and Yahoo have been engaged in a strange relationship for years now, but it is finally getting close to becoming official. The two Internet giants reached an agreement last summer, in which Yahoo practically handed over its search engine to Microsoft, but they haven't been able to actually sign it unt... |
19 November 2009
04:42 GMT |
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The search landscape is still evolving even if at its usual slow pace. Not too much has changed in October, Google still clearly dominates and has actually picked up a little market share in the last month, but the other two players are bit more dynamic. Yahoo took quite a significant dive, dropping almost 1 percent... |
18 November 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Real-time search is heading to its rightful home, mobile phones, with a new partnership between mobile search engine Taptu and real-time search engine OneRiot. The idea is to bring a real-time experience to mobile phones in a way that takes advantage of their capabilities and solves their shortcomings. The new Taptu ... |
10 November 2009
11:46 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft released a few months ago a revamped and re-branded search engine, Bing, which also came to mobile phones shortly after the initial launch, and which now has seen as series of improvements on the mobile side. Up until now, the company has been mainly focused on enhancing the cap... |
31 October 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Nobody expected the Yahoo Microsoft deal to go that smoothly and it's already seeing the first delays. When the deal was initially announced on July 29 the two parties said that a finalized agreement would be signed by October 27 but that date has come and passed and the two companies are now saying they need mo... |
29 October 2009
05:35 GMT |
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If you think the search landscape is unbalanced now, things are about to get even worse. For all intents and purposes there are three players in the search market right now, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. For several years though there has been a perennial fourth, Ask.com, which hasn't managed to get any traction ... |
28 October 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Yahoo isn't a search company. At least that's the tune it’s playing lately as it outsourced its search capabilities to Microsoft in a landmark deal. Not everyone is convinced that Yahoo got the best deal but content is the new strategy and Yahoo is sticking with it. But it may not be out of the search... |
28 October 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Real time is the talk of the town these days but so far the big search engines have been outmaneuvered by small startups. Twitter is currently 'the' place for real-time information but the means of accessing it are still lacking. Twitter's own search engine is a good place to start but it is fairly lim... |
22 October 2009
03:57 GMT |
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Yahoo has reported its third quarter financial results, posting numbers that were slightly above expectations but still mostly down from last year. Revenue was at $1.575 billion, down 12 percent from last year's $1.786 billion, but net income was more than three times bigger thanks to a deep cost-cutting campaig... |
21 October 2009
03:28 GMT |
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The Wolfram Alpha search engine was launched to quite a bit of hype several months ago but the buzz has since dropped considerably along with the traffic numbers. The project is far from completion of course – it is labeled an alpha after all – and the launch was meant only to help the team better test an... |
16 October 2009
07:19 GMT |
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The real-time web has been getting a lot of hype in the past months and, as with any nascent technology, especially online, it has its great supporters and its detractors. The truth may be somewhere in the middle, as real time is not the be all and end all of online information, but, once it gets a little more fleshe... |
12 October 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Social bookmarking hasn't exactly developed into the promise it once held but it's still somewhat popular with at least part of the users. StumbleUpon is one of the services that seemed to have a lot of potential but never really took off so it's understandable that it has been looking to reinvent itse... |
9 October 2009
04:21 GMT |
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With the economy still in a dire state people are looking to save and they're doing it online. Coupon searches have shot up tremendously recently but no one has jumped at the opportunity to offer a service to simplify the process. Until now that is, as Ask.com, somewhat of a rounding error in the search market, ... |
6 October 2009
05:57 GMT |
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The way we use the Internet and relate to web content is constantly changing and so is the way we find new information online. Search engines used to be the center of information discovery but there has been a great shift in recent years towards social media which, while still relatively small as a percentage of the ... |
6 October 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Google has been very eager to play with its logo on its homepage, having featured three different doodles in the past couple of weeks. And now Google is at it again, this time spelling its name “Googlle.” Thankfully, this isn't yet another mysterious doodle like the last three but rather something a ... |
28 September 2009
03:24 GMT |
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With all of the things Google has its hands on, it's easy to forget that it's still a search company at its core and that most of its revenue is derived from the search engine. And, with increased competition from Microsoft, Google is not sitting still, constantly tweaking and updating it. The latest additi... |
26 September 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Hot on the trails of the new homepage, Yahoo has just launched a new search results page to bring it up to date design-wise and also prepare for the Bing merger. But the changes aren't just cosmetic; Yahoo actually upgraded the search experience with some interesting features and design choices. The new search p... |
23 September 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Bing has been launched for less than four months now and Microsoft is already planning Bing 2.0. But until then the “1.0” version seems to be doing just fine. Whether it's because of the new features and overall improved search experience or the $100 million ad money Microsoft poured into an all-out ... |
22 September 2009
09:27 GMT |
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There's no secret that web searching today is dominated by Google and that major effort is invested by competition to balance the market share. The global perspective of the usage statistics shows the Mountain View company shattering all rivalry with a smashing percentage of 83% for the month of August. That... |
16 September 2009
11:44 GMT |
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Google got a little outflanked when the whole “real time” thing started becoming big. It's the theme of the year in tech terms. But Twitter is stealing all the limelight, real time is all about the microblogging platform. Google even admitted to this several months back. But don't mistake this f... |
14 September 2009
03:33 GMT |
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Teaming up with different partners from Europe, IBM has launched for the public a new search engine that uses brand new image and video searching techniques. The algorithm scans every image uploaded on the web for color schemes, color structure, color layout, shape edges, patterns and texture, besides the classic tag... |
12 September 2009
04:22 GMT |
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All major players in the search engine market may soon be forced to pay royalties to Israeli company Netex Corporation after it managed to secure a patent in the US for a technology used by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in their search engines. The company now plans to enter the US market and its 28-year-old CEO Aviv R... |
8 September 2009
12:07 GMT |
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Google is continuing to bleed high-level executives and, this time, it is Google China's turn. The Internet giant has announced that the company's Head of Operations in the country, Kai-Fu Lee, will resign from his position to pursue other interests. Two executives in the company will take over Lee's r... |
4 September 2009
02:54 GMT |
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While Google still dominates the search-engine market with little signs of slowing down, many are trying to take a shot at the title, or at least get some decent market share. Some are shoving boatloads of money, others are taking a mathematical approach or even trying a human touch. A newly launched search engine, I... |
3 September 2009
09:22 GMT |
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The global search market continues to soar, having grown 41 percent in the past year. In July 2009, Internet users all over the world conducted more than 113 billion searches, a big rise over the 80 billion in July last year. While most search engines saw some growth, Google stood out with an impressive 58 percent in... |
1 September 2009
04:03 GMT |
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A short while ago, Google released a testing version of the new indexing engine and infrastructure changes it planned to launch in the coming months. Because of the extensive nature of the changes, Google wanted to make sure parties affected had enough time to get acquainted with how things worked and provide feedbac... |
26 August 2009
11:39 GMT |
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A couple of months ago Wolfram Alpha was launched with much fanfare. The new search engine tried to be different and for the most part it succeeded. But different doesn't necessarily mean better and, while it did bring some very interesting features to the table, it failed to get much traction and traffic number... |
21 August 2009
10:55 GMT |
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The search market is going to go through some very big transformations as the Yahoo-Microsoft deal unfolds but for the time being little has changed from the users' perspective. So it's no surprise that the July numbers for search market share haven't changed that much from the previous month though th... |
17 August 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Google has enjoyed a very comfortable lead in the search market for many years now and this isn't going to change anytime soon, even with the new Microsoft-Yahoo alliance. But, while market share numbers may look daunting, there are other metrics that look a lot more optimistic for the competitors. ComScore has ... |
15 August 2009
05:03 GMT |
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Mahalo is part search engine part wiki, providing human-created results to common searches. In order to spur further growth the site added monetary rewards for its editors and now Business Insider got a hold of the site's creator, Jason Calcanis, a well-known figure in the industry, to provide an update on how t... |
11 August 2009
09:14 GMT |
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Google is the king of search with a comfortable roughly 70 percent share of the market and it's not likely this will change anytime soon. Still, with the competition heating up, in terms of features at least even if it's not actually making a dent in the market share, the company isn't sitting down and... |
11 August 2009
03:36 GMT |
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The search engine market isn't exactly lacking contenders and it is one of the most entrenched corners of the Internet but that hasn't stopped countless startups from trying, and failing, to conquer or, at least, make a dent in it. But, as not even Microsoft has managed to gain market share after pouring bi... |
28 July 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Leading Chinese online search provider Baidu posted its financial results for the second quarter, showing strong growth in search ad earnings with overall revenue at 1.1 billion yuan ($160.7 million). The revenue was up 37 percent year over year and 35 percent from the first quarter, slightly above analyst estimates,... |
27 July 2009
05:07 GMT |
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Microsoft's new search engine Bing has been a relative success for the company, if not in user numbers, which may have risen slightly in the past month, though sources are often contradictory, then by the large amount of mostly positive press it has been getting almost two months since it was launched. And now t... |
25 July 2009
06:56 GMT |
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To say that the newspaper business has seen better days is an understatement. With readership and advertising money dropping significantly over the years many publications are going bust while others struggle to stay afloat. So it's understandable if bigwigs in charge aren't happy and it's also somewha... |
24 July 2009
09:17 GMT |
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There is little doubt that Bing, the new brand that Microsoft is using for its search engine, has a certain musical resonance to it, a “certain je-ne-sais-quoi” acoustic reverberation if you will. Certainly it managed to beat the tone-deaf Live Search hands, or ears down. But when it comes to the musicali... |
21 July 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Bing has brought hope to Microsoft's search division and, while the initial traffic numbers don't show much growth and are sometimes conflicting, overall the signs are positive and the product is seen as a success. But with all the focus on the user interface it's easy to forget that a search engine is... |
20 July 2009
06:12 GMT |
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While traffic and user numbers may be growing for Microsoft's new decision engine, it looks like the advertisers are a little more reluctant. In fact, online advertising research firm AdGooroo found that first page advertisers may have dropped in the first month after Bing's launch even though overall Micro... |
14 July 2009
09:15 GMT |
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A new report from research firm Efficient Frontier shows that spending on search engine marketing may have reached its low point and has stabilized even though the overall economic environment is still weak. The report also shows that Microsoft's new search engine Bing may have been a financial success for the c... |
13 July 2009
12:07 GMT |
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It's been more than a month since Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, went live, but how successful has it been? The numbers vary with the different sources, but the overall trend is positive. And, in fact, new data from StatCounter shows Bing passing Yahoo! Search in the US for the second time since being... |
10 July 2009
11:28 GMT |
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Microsoft is working to bring localized versions of Bing to the level of the service for the US market. However, not all users worldwide will be able to benefit from the same level of features as the US-tailored variant of the search engine. For starters the Redmond company will start upgrading Bing for users in Aust... |
6 July 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Microsoft's Bing search engine has been around for a little while, yet the Redmond software company is already working hard on advertising the performance of its engine. Although most of the work has been aimed at the solution for PCs, it seems that some troupe movement in the mobile phone area has been spotted ... |
4 July 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Google has launched an updated Blog Search, bringing some features that should have come a while ago but also some more innovative ones. Coming after the last update in fall, which made the homepage more like a news aggregator, the new release rounds up the features with RSS/Atom feeds and a “hot news” se... |
3 July 2009
02:54 GMT |
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One thing is clear about Bing, painfully so even. The search engine from Microsoft that killed off Live Search still has to grow until it will address international users in the same manner as those in the US. But it's not to say that Microsoft isn't trying. In fact, the Redmond company announced on July 1,... |
2 July 2009
08:43 GMT |
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A new study by Catalyst Group put Microsoft's new search engine Bing against top-dog Google in a survey, to see if Bing did enough to convince people to turn to it. The study used 12 subjects, hardly a number for statistical analysis, however the most interesting part of the study isn't the survey, but the ... |
26 June 2009
09:26 GMT |
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With the shareholder meeting held today, Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz is closing in on her first six months as the top dog at the Internet giant. And while her approach made a lot of headlines and shook up a big part of Yahoo's upper management structure, the company is still doing very poorly financially. But ... |
25 June 2009
12:50 GMT |
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Most companies and experts agree that semantic search is the future, yet few have been able to get any real results. Many have tried, with varying degrees of success, most recently Wolfram Alpha, but the fact remains that computers, even with their ever-increasing power and ever-improving algorithms, still have big p... |
23 June 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Baidu, the largest search engine in China, bigger than Google in the country, is looking for new acquisitions to solidify its position and maybe even extend its lead. Few people outside of China have heard of the search engine, but with the nation being the largest Internet market in the world, with over 300 million ... |
23 June 2009
09:27 GMT |
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New data from comScore shows little activity in the search sector, with the big three competitors maintaining more or less the same positions, namely Google in the front, followed by Yahoo and Microsoft. However, other players saw big increases in queries from April to May, and online classified ad website Craigslist... |
19 June 2009
09:01 GMT |
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A hot trend in search right now is question and answer sites with a host of new services or updates like the recently launched Hunch or the revamped Mahalo Answers going back to the original Yahoo Answers. Even Wolfram Alpha is encouraging users to ask questions instead of using keywords but second-tier search engine... |
18 June 2009
05:42 GMT |
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