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DuckDuckGo, one of the few alternative search engines out there, has announced that it's seen its biggest day yet in terms of direct traffic. In total, it saw 731,472 queries on January 24th, beating the record set the day earlier.
These past couple of days are the only ones with more than 700,000 direct querie... |
26 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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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 wa... |
23 December 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome is getting a very cool new feature. The latest Chromium/Google Chrome 17 builds now come with protection against third-party software changing the default search engine.Anyone having to fix their parents' computers knows that this is one of the most common problems that comes from installing all so... |
14 December 2011
16:51 GMT |
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French fashion house Chanel won a big battle with counterfeiters after it obtained a court order against hundreds of websites that commercialized fake luxury products.
A Nevada court ruled in favor of Chanel and, besides giving them the power to seize the rogue domains, the judge also ordered search engines and soci... |
30 November 2011
03:46 GMT |
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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 on... |
28 November 2011
12:11 GMT |
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When announcing Windows Phone 7 last year and the new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango in 2011, Microsoft stressed a lot on the great Bing integration that its users can benefit from.
However, it appears that the company was quick to replace Bing with another search service when bringing its devices to Russia, and made Ya... |
26 November 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Wolfram Alpha hasn't exactly taken the search world by storm, but then again, it was not supposed to. The computational search engine has been a hit with geeks, scientists and anyone looking for hard answers.It's been evolving since launch, adding more capabilities and enhancing its existing ones, and now i... |
18 November 2011
13:51 GMT |
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The search market seems like a relatively easy one to follow. After all, not much happens, Google dominates, Bing and Yahoo try to keep up. But not everyone analyzing the market comes up with the same results.For example, Experian Hitwise's numbers for October seem to contradict the comScore numbers published ea... |
17 November 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Google is debuting a new search tool that should give users more control when they know exactly what they want to find. There is now a "Verbatim" search tool that, as the name implies, enables you to get results for your query exactly as you wrote it.
It may not be obvious why anyone would want this if you don'... |
16 November 2011
04:50 GMT |
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There hasn't been much movement in October in the search market. In the US, Google continues to dominate, it even gained 0.3 percent points last month, while Yahoo and Microsoft struggle, to no avail to catch up."Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in October with 65.6 percent market share (up ... |
12 November 2011
08:31 GMT |
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An Indian hacker called Debasish Mandal revealed that an XSS vulnerability exposes the Speed Bit search engine to a potential JavaScript injection. The Hacker News informs that in order to prove his findings, Debasish injected an onmouseover JavaScript event into the website and as it turns out, it really works. By... |
10 November 2011
06:14 GMT |
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Google, in search, has been, for the most part invincible. It has taken over virtually any market it debuted in and is the undisputed king. Except for very few markets in which local players have been able to stave off Google and even dominate.Yandex is one example of that, Russian internet, like the Chinese one, ten... |
28 October 2011
11:04 GMT |
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SEO is often considered more black art than science and search engines have their fair share of blame for this since many website owners and SEO experts are many times guessing at what will work and what won't to get a site moving up the rankings.This general lack of information has made it possible for shady, b... |
25 October 2011
03:40 GMT |
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Bit.ly is finally starting to leverage the power of the huge amounts of data that pass through the service every day. Bit.ly is popular enough to have a rather good idea of what links are popular, which are viral and, more importantly, which will be in the short term future.
Because that's what Bit.ly's ... |
14 October 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of comScore's search market numbers, Experian Hitwise is providing its own analysis. While the numbers differ, for a number of reasons, the overall trends are rather similar and both reports show Google growing in September in the US, after staying put for a long time.
Determining exactly how... |
13 October 2011
09:41 GMT |
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It's business as usual in the search market, at least in the US, in September. Except for the rather somber fact that Yahoo has hit its lowest point in history, everything else is moving, or not moving as the case may be, according to the bigger and unchanged trends.
Google managed to turn the tides in Septem... |
11 October 2011
09:21 GMT |
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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, fo... |
29 September 2011
14:11 GMT |
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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 open... |
20 September 2011
10:10 GMT |
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Yahoo is announcing that the switch to Microsoft Bing-powered organic search results has been completed in most of the places Yahoo Search is available. All of the European markets have been transitioned as well as the Asian ones, with the sole exception of South Korea.
Yahoo started a big push to transition all o... |
20 September 2011
06:01 GMT |
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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 personalize se... |
15 September 2011
10:31 GMT |
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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... |
14 September 2011
11:55 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it has transitioned to Bing in several more countries. The company has been switching over to the Microsoft search engine in quite a few places recently. The most recent are several European countries and several in the Middle East and North Africa."We are excited to announce that the Yahoo! ... |
20 August 2011
06:53 GMT |
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While the search market, in terms of shares, is relatively static, it's growing on the whole, albeit not by a huge amount. There was a three percent rise in the volume of queries in the US in July, compared to the previous month, according to the latest comScore numbers."More than 17.1 billion explicit core sear... |
11 August 2011
08:40 GMT |
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The web is constantly evolving, Facebook is a giant, but the most popular activities online, at least according to one study, are still search and email. The results shouldn't be surprising, while many people use social networking sites, or visit blogs to get their news, they are also very likely to use search a... |
10 August 2011
12:01 GMT |
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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 ther... |
10 August 2011
07:58 GMT |
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Yahoo has now completed the switch over to Bing, to power its search engine, in 17 countries. The migration, which started a year ago, is still ongoing and the bulk of the countries where it has been completed only came recently.In fact, after the initial roll out in the US, in August 2010, Yahoo took its sweet time ... |
4 August 2011
11:08 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it has transitioned more of its local search properties over to Bing, switching from its own search engine technology to Microsoft's. This is another step in a big agreement between Yahoo and Microsoft for Bing to power Yahoo Search.The two companies have reached a deal a couple of years... |
23 July 2011
06:11 GMT |
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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.... |
14 July 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Google has quietly shut down some of its specialized search engines launched during the company's early days. These search engines, which enabled users to search for things related to Linux, Microsoft or the US government. Granted, the search verticals weren't seeing much use, but some people are still upse... |
7 June 2011
12:33 GMT |
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There is a lot of interest in tech companies these days and the initial public offer of Russia's dominant search engine Yandex is yet another indication, after LinkedIn's great start last week. Yandex stock surged 55 percent from the opening price.Yandex, which gets more than 60 percent of the searches in R... |
25 May 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Verizon and Chomp have just announced that the latter's search application will be available via the carrier's V CAST Apps and Android Market.
Chomp is known for its expertise in the app search technology, so Verizon customers will be able to search for apps in both Android Market and V CAST Apps.
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24 May 2011
08:02 GMT |
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As usual, it's been another busy week at Google Search. Plenty of new features, changes and enhancements have been rolled out and Google has highlighted all of them in a weekly round up, including the ones that did not get their own separate announcement.A Google a DayA Google a Day was launched, a new trivia ga... |
17 April 2011
05:30 GMT |
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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... |
14 April 2011
06:31 GMT |
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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... |
10 March 2011
11:15 GMT |
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January has been an interesting month in the search space, while major changes are not going to happen from one month to another, there were some big moves. Microsoft sites, aka Bing, added 1.1 percent points to their market share according to comScore, quite a significant improvement. Google lost almost the same amo... |
15 February 2011
02:17 GMT |
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Microsoft's efforts in the search space are finally starting to pay off, or at least make a difference, if the latest numbers from Experian Hitwise are to be trusted. They show "Bing-powered search," aka Bing and Yahoo combined, growing by 6 percent in the last month alone, mostly at the expense of Google."Googl... |
8 February 2011
14:01 GMT |
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While Google and Bing bicker about copied search results, the need for more 'voices' in the search world has never been more poignant. With Yahoo gone, the task falls to the number of small companies coming from behind. Blekko has only been around a few months, but it is seeing healthy growth and has announ... |
7 February 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Yandex, the dominating search engine on the Russian market, boasts record revenue for 2010. This while it's already significant market share continues to grow. The company made no mention of profitability, but Yandex is planning a possible 2011 initial public offering. Revenue increased 43 percent in the last ye... |
19 January 2011
10:38 GMT |
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Google's move to pull out of the search market in China was seen as suicidal at the time, but there were some that argued that Google may be hit that hard financially, partly because the market is still small. And that seems to be the case, Google has managed to get back some search ad share in the fourth quarte... |
19 January 2011
06:19 GMT |
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Search trends haven't changed much in the final month of 2010, mirroring the moves from the entire year. Yahoo lost market share, Bing gained a small slice and Google basically stood flat. The exact numbers differ, but the trends are the same both with Hitwise and with comScore data."Google accounted for 69.67 p... |
14 January 2011
16:28 GMT |
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Spam or junk web pages designed to drive traffic and filled with ads are a reality most users face each day. For those that know better, the telltale signs are obvious most of the times, but you still get fooled every once in a while, even if it's for a few seconds. And for most people, who are not heavy interne... |
10 January 2011
05:29 GMT |
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With the year coming to an end, we've seen all manner of search engines highlight the top queries and trends of the year. TorrentFreak focused on the BitTorrent scene. With data from KickassTorrents, one of the biggest up-and-coming BitTorrent indexers out there, the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2010 was created.The top... |
28 December 2010
04:08 GMT |
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It's barely December but 2010 is already being dissected and analyzed. In the search game, Yahoo got a head start with the 2010 Year in Review. The comprehensive report covers the top searches in several categories and paints a surprisingly thorough picture of the year ending."The Transocean oil rig explosion an... |
1 December 2010
10:45 GMT |
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Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, is mulling an IPO according to rumors, following the successful initial public offer from another Russian internet giant, Mail.ru. The search company is looking to raise about $1.5 billion in the IPO and is considering a listing in London. According to Reuters, the Russian... |
30 November 2010
04:50 GMT |
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Google gained even more market share in the US in October after the introduction of Google Instant. While the increase is minimal, Google already dominates the space. Google accounted for 66.3 of explicit core searches in the US in the last month according to comScore."Google Sites led the explicit core search market... |
19 November 2010
11:41 GMT |
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Ask.com, the perennial underdog in the search game is giving up its search efforts and will be focusing exclusively on Q&A from now on. Most of the company's search team will be let go. The search engine will not be shut down, as it still commands a piece of the search market, but Ask will outsource crawling, in... |
10 November 2010
05:50 GMT |
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The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued a security alert to SCADA systems operators, integrators and vendors, that such vulnerable systems can be easily located online through a public search engine."The ICS-CERT has recently received several reports from multiple independen... |
2 November 2010
14:58 GMT |
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Just as the search world is becoming less varied, now that Yahoo search results are provided by Bing, in the US for now, a new search engine is being launched to challenge the established market. Blekko, which has been in the works for quite some time, is now going public and is available for everyone.Blekko is a cla... |
1 November 2010
06:49 GMT |
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The latest comScore search market numbers have been released and, while the numbers themselves are anything but exciting, Yahoo is feeling cheated out because of Google Instant so the analytics company felt it needed to explain how it deals with the new Google. "Looking at comScore’s report, it appears to me th... |
14 October 2010
03:59 GMT |
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According to the latest search market numbers, Google is once again gaining market share, mostly at the expense of Yahoo. In recent months, Google had seen a slow decline while Yahoo and Bing were picking up steam. However, the comScore report for September in the US, shows that Google is on the rise, gaining 0.7 per... |
13 October 2010
10:41 GMT |
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