Tag archive: Bing

Microsoft’s Bing has for the first time taken the number two spot from Yahoo in the battle for search engine traffic in the US. Of course, Google is still way ahead of the pack and looks unlikely to be caught any time soon, according to data released by research firm comScore on Wednesday. Data collected by comScore for web searches made last month shows Bing and other Microsoft sites accounted for 15.1 percent of all Internet searches, with… Read More

It turns out that Mozilla calling their renewed deal with Google a “significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement” was a bit of an understatement. According to a report from AllThingsD, it's worth $300 million a year. The deal was announced on Tuesday, and followed a degree of agonizing as to whether Google would retain their spot as the Firefox browser's search engine of choice. It has now transpired that… Read More

Microsoft launched its Bing search engine back in mid-2009 with a goal of taking on Google in the lucrative Internet search market—or, at least, the lucrative search advertising market. Although Google has yet to see much of a threat from Bing, Microsoft's search engine is on the verge of marking a major milestone: according to Comscore, Bing is just about even with Yahoo in terms of its share of the U.S. search market. During November… Read More

Noticed on a wider scale today, Google has begun integrating Google+ updates from official brand pages within search results. The brand page updates are tied to the official URL of the company and up to two recent entries from the brand page appear within the results. Users viewing the search results can add the page to their circles if they have a Google+ profile. They can also click on the Google+ updates to reach the brand page in addition… Read More

Mozilla's Firefox browser occupies a unique place in the industry. Developed as an alternative to Microsoft's market-dominating Internet Explorer, Mozilla is the only major Web browser on the planet that isn't a commercial operation. Firefox aims to answer to actual Web users, rather than cow-tow to corporate goals and pursue every opportunity to capture users and (of course) make profits. And Mozilla has succeeded: the… Read More

The SEO world took notice last week when Bing performed something of an undercover update on its search algorithm. Apparently this overhaul is the search engine’s version of Google’s Panda update, although it may have made even more sweeping changes than its competitor’s content-farm crackdown. According to Search Engine Land, Bing has taken a more comprehensive approach and is flat out removing sites from its index that are deemed insufficient.… Read More

Announced earlier today out of Nevada, Judge Kent Dawson ordered that luxury goods designer Chanel now has the legal right to seize domain names of over 700 sites that are attempting to sell counterfeit Chanel products. These domain names can be taken over by Chanel and transferred to domain registrar GoDaddy. All pages would then be redirected to an online notice of the seizure.  The federal judge also ordered that all search engines and… Read More

Microsoft´s courtship of Yahoo has officially moved from rumored to confirmed. Microsoft and Yahoo have taken a very early step in the buying process. The two companies have signed a nondisclosure agreement, which means Microsoft can now poke around at Yahoo’s financials to see if it wants to make an offer. There have been several recent rumors of Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo, as well as several other possible suitors such as AOL. While other… Read More

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt fought back accusations by a group of federal lawmakers that the Internet giant is a monopoly, saying that Google is not “overwhelmingly dominant” in the online search market, and competes with the likes of Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and Microsoft. “I am confident that Google competes vigorously with a broad range of companies that go well beyond just Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo,” wrote… Read More

Released late yesterday, Google issued a new update to the popular Chrome browser. Google Chrome 15 rolls out a variety of bug fixes as well as a brand new tab interface. The changes to the tabs interface separates the most-visited list of Web sites and the apps on separate pages. These pages can be accessed by clicking the left and right arrows on either side of the page. However, if the user has an app that overwrites the initial interface… Read More

Steve Ballmer is not known for holding back and at the Web 2.0 Summit on Tuesday, the Microsoft CEO tossed out some decent one-liners. Attacking Google search, Android, Yahoo, and touting the company's recent purchase of Skype, Ballmer let loose, as he often does. Below are some select quotes.  On Android: “You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android Phone…It is hard… Read More

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, Google chairman Eric Schmidt tried to put the best possible face on Google's business model, characterizing the Internet as the ultimate level playing field, and noting that if consumers and businesses don't like Google, alternatives are just one click away. However, Schmidt's (and Google's) statements side-step facts that have put Google in the crosshairs of antitrust… Read More

Google has put another foot squarely in the travel arena with Google Flights, its new airline ticket aggregator. The site has the ITA Software deal to thank for its existance, which was hotly contested by would-be competitors. Nonetheless, Google hasn’t been deterred by its new cohorts’ dissatisfaction and Hotel Finder and Flights have made their officially debuts. We’ve already taken a look at how Google Hotel Finder stacks up against the… Read More

After Microsoft launched Bing in 2009, everyone was aware that it it had a long road to become a sizable competitor to Google's search engine. While it still has a ways to go in regards to percentage of search users, Experian Hitwise believes that Bing is more accurate than Google for searches. Both Bing and Yahoo! (which is powered by Bing) sent a user to a site over 80 percent of the time over the month of July. In comparison,  about 2… Read More

Coming off the a recent dissolution of a partnership with Twitter for real-time search results, Google has started to intertwine public posts made on Google+ with search results. When a user is signed into any Google service and performs a search, they will see annotations about links shared on Google+ from their friends and connections of friends. However, the text only shows that a person shared the link, not their opinion on it. If a friend… Read More