Tag archive: search engines

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

Bing's use of Facebook data in its search results is nothing new – in October last year the two companies announced that search results would draw on the “like” data of friends to personalize results, and then in February this year the two companies expanded the service to include more URLs – and now, in a blog post on Monday, Microsoft's search engine announced plans to pay even more attention to what it calls the “Friend Effect”.… Read More

While it can hardly be considered a dark horse in the search engine race, Microsoft's Bing has made surprising gains on reigning search champ Google. According to Experian Hitwise, Bing amassed 30.01 percent of all searches during the month of March. That includes searches conducted on bing.com as well as “Bing-powered” searches, which includes Yahoo websites that use Bing. Searches conducted directly through bing.com accounted… Read More

Google today announced a new daily trivia game that actually encourages players to use the Internet to find answers. The game A Google A Day was conceived in collaboration with The New York Times. Trivia afficinados can find a single trivia question posted daily at agoogleaday.com or in print above the Times' crossword puzzle. “As the world of information continues to explode, we hope A Google a Day triggers your imagination and… Read More

Google has a ball in every court. The king of search is always attempting to stretch its reach, marking its territory in every corner of the worldwide Web that it possibly can. And while this has inarguably made it a major contender in all things digital, Google has naturally earned itself a few rivals along the way.

Bing has made no secret of its feelings about Facebook integration – it’s all for it. And now Microsoft’s search engine will extend the collaboration to include even more URLs. Bing introduced “Liked Results” earlier this year, which showed users links their Facebook friends approved of. Now Bing will enhance the application to include even more search queries. According to a blog post from Bing social team executive Lawrence Kim, “as people… Read More

Google is already facing antitrust scrutiny in Europe over how sites get ranked in Google's search results; now, France's 1PlusV is adding more fuel to the fire, filing a new complaint with the European Commission that Google deliberately prevents companies using vertical search technology from using AdSense. 1PlusV is the search engine company behind Ejustice.fr, and is also a party to the existing antitrust investigation the EC… Read More

At the Web 2.0 Summit in November, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz admitted it took her awhile to define her own company. “Content, communications, media, technology, that’s Yahoo.” And it’s also in the midst of a Silicon Valley identity crisis so severe, many doubt the company’s ability to make it out alive.

The gloves are off and Google has thrown the first punch. On Tuesday, Google released the results of a detailed investigation it conducted to prove that Microsoft's Bing is stealing copying search results from the world's largest search engine. Google claims that Bing is collecting Google search data from its Bing toolbar and using it to improve its own search results. In response, Microsoft fired back saying it does not copy… Read More

Riddle me this, Google execs and PR department: Why did Google choose to market its search engine—probably the only product that doesn’t need advertising—in a very expensive Super Bowl commercial? That, Google, is the only real question we have for you. Why market something that’s already a winner in its space and beyond? Google’s search engine already holds roughly two-thirds of the market.

Carol Bartz spent much of her first year as Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive rallying the troops and clearing the decks, often sounding like a salty drill sergeant as she vowed to whip the downtrodden Internet company back into shape. For all the tough talk, Yahoo remains on shaky ground as Bartz marks her one-year anniversary as CEO on Wednesday. Revenue has sagged even further since her hiring while Yahoo's share of the Internet… Read More

Google wins again for coming up with another cool and inventive search tool—what else is new? Today Google announced at its “Searchology” event it launched its new “search options” on its main search page. This news turned out to be Google’s Real-Time Search, a new search feature

Michael Jackson's stunning death made him Yahoo's biggest star this year. The quest to find out what happened to Jackson in his final hours on June 25 and celebrate his legacy elevated the late entertainer to the top of the Internet company's annual breakdown of the most frequent online search requests. The self-proclaimed King of Pop ended singer Britney Spears' four-year reign atop Yahoo's search rankings.

Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site. Google placed a text ad above the image titled “Offensive Search Results” that states “Sometimes our search results can be offensive. We agree.”

Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently. Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information about hot topics. Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. had earlier announced plans to incorporate Twitter messages into search results, but Yahoo said it will be the first among them to include such “tweets”… Read More