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Last week my wife and I were watching the TV when up popped one of those Microsoft Bing commercials. I am sure you have seen the commercial where the teenage daughter asks Dad a question and in a zombie stare he goes off in a tangent babbling out obscure facts. The girl turns to her [...]

Google is trying to woo the newspaper industry with a proposal that includes paid for content and a way to increase revenues. The Google proposal is being made to the Newspaper Association of America and addresses not only free but also paid content. Google proposal also includes a way that Google would host the content [...]

You have to love competition in a capitalist society. It keeps company not only focused but also looking for new ways to reinvent themselves. New ways to increase revenues, not only for the company, but for those who subscribe to their services. So today Google has announced a new money maker for those who host [...]

I had to scratch my head when I first read this statement from the head boss of Yahoo saying the company was not a search company. Well I believe some of us may differ from this statement for several reasons. When Yahoo first became available to the masses, everyone I know used it to do [...]

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 [...]

Here we go again. The DOJ is looking at Google as a monopoly, just like they did once before when they looked at Microsoft. But is Google really a monopoly if people like their stuff better than the competitions? This is what really needs to be looked at. Not just a dictionary term of what [...]

You have to love the different opinions on whether the latest search effort by Microsoft known as Bing will succeed or not. Over at the N.Y. York Times they say that Bing has gained respect for Microsoft. They also state in an article that:
“They have achieved a degree of respect they haven’t had,” said Danny [...]

I read an interesting article which covered what Steve Ballmer had said about Google and their new Chrome operating system. The interview took place at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans and the following sentence caught my eye:
As for Microsoft’s own plans, Ballmer said the company did not see a need for a [...]

The wannabe your search vehicle Bing was unable to deliver when Michael Jackson died. The latest search engine from Microsoft buried the story by TMZ under a layer of other news at the bottom of the page. Microsoft admits it even ranked the story low in their  xRank result.
According to one news source it states:
Microsoft [...]

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 [...]

Twitter seems like it is getting serious when it comes to people using the word ‘tweet’ in their apps. It is taking this so seriously that it has actually applied for a trademark of the word ‘tweet’. I can understand that the folks at Twitter want to protect what is now a common term associated [...]

As millions of users went to the Internet to find out more information about Michael Jackson, Google had a major spike in traffic, which at first appeared to be an attack. The search giant stated that Google News was unavailable to some users during this time.
A warning flashed to some user which stated:
“We’re sorry, but [...]

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 [...]

We knew it would be happen. It was only a matter of time before the fur would start to fly between Google and Microsoft over search. Microsoft is spending some $100 million on advertising their new Bing search engine. But as I have previously mentioned, TV advertising didn’t work for Ask and I doubt it [...]

I just viewed the first of what appears to be Microsoft’s attempt to once again enter into the search market. If you look closely when the commercial first starts you will notice a monkey of some sort pounding on what appears to be a Mac computer. Does this mean that only baboons buy Mac’s? You [...]

Microsoft is spending a cool $100 Million to get us to drop Google and go with their new search engine called Bing. It now seems that Microsoft is going on the air with TV ads to try and convince us that Bing is the future. Though I wish the company well, the only one who [...]

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 [...]

In what sounds like something out of a mystery novel, a family finds closure after locating a airplane crash site that took two lives. But what is truly amazing is that the plane crash took place some 2 1/2 years before a search team found the wreckage. The story credits Google maps and how the [...]

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 [...]