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I recently read an article about a new kid on the block known as Blekko, that is receiving funding to start a new search company. Interesting. They must have something up their sleeve that may make Blekko different, since the company has received over $17M in funding. So I went over the Blekko site and [...]

If these numbers are accurate they say volumes about how we users rely on Google to be our search preference. During the week that Bing launched, Google’s market share shrank from 78.72% to a whopping down turn of 78.48%. Before Microsoft released Bing their market share was a dismal 7.81% to a stunning 8.23%. Much [...]

The Catalyst Group has completed what is being claimed as a study of 12 people who used Google than Bing. The group of 12 was then asked which search engine they preferred. Though Bing was preferred by the users 8 out of the 12 said they would stay with Google. Which begs to ask if [...]

Maybe Google is a little worried about Bing after all. Google now has a Explore Google Search page in which they describe what they do. They also have introductions to their staff as well as user stories. Google also takes an in depth view of what exactly their search engine can do like finding out [...]

Bong, bong, bong, no BING! Microsoft has launched their latest rendition of their new search vehicle called Bing in beta format. The new search is designed to replace Live Search and according to their web site will make finding such things as travel, shopping, health and local stuff easier to find. When you enter into [...]

The Discovery Engine aka Twitter Search is coming our way. The folks at Twitter are saying that they are in the process of fine tuning the program and polishing up some parts that need shining up.  On their web site they state that:
A few weeks ago we started testing Twitter Search in the web interface [...]

To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Google has setup a website that uses a database back from 2001. Google also wants to know what you think the future will hold, or should hold, for us Internet uses. In addition to the old search engine, they have another site dedicated to new ideas. In their FAQ’s, they [...]

When it comes to the Olympics, Google wants you to follow the games on your phone. Google has setup their search engine to stay on top of the entire games, including medal count and to see how each country is doing. Over at the Google Mobile Blog they also state that:
If you’re like me you’ll [...]

This morning I wrote about the new search engine, Cuil, after which it appeared that the new kid on the block suffered some massive growing pains. Servers were overloaded and the system went down briefly. What was even more embarrassing was a news story on CNN.
They were trying to show the attributes of Cuil, and [...]

Cuil [pronounced cool] is a new search engine start up company out of Menlo Park, CA., that is taking on Google. The new search engine company claims to have indexed some 120 billion pages,with the added claim they know of over one trillian pages. How about Google? How many pages do they have indexed?
Google remains [...]

Google says that in the year 1998, it had estimated that there were over 26 million pages on the Internet. Two years later that number hit the 1 billion mark and now in 2008 it hit the 1 trillion mark. Now that’s big. Oops I mean huge. Though Google admits it doesn’t know the [...]