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While this article from the NY Times is clearly an opinion piece, it speaks with authority against Bing as if they are somehow doing “worse” that what Google and Yahoo have done in China.
The short of it is that (without a source, I might add) Bing is allegedly working with Chinese authorities to skew search [...]

Would you use Bing in exchange for some free Wi-Fi? Honestly, depending on where I was financially, I might. Then again, I suspect some folks will find a way to simply game the system so they can still use Google, but enjoy that free Wi-Fi that Bing is to be offering at select locations.
I will [...]

Are quality search results just too much to ask for? According to this article, one might easily come to this conclusion sooner rather than later. The problem is despite advancements given, some search engines remains better than others depending on the query.
Even then, those other search engines that provides results from everywhere are not really [...]

Yes, because clearly the solution to my search queries are going to come from the mindless updates from Facebook. Really? Is this a worthy addition to Bing’s otherwise usable search functionality.
I would point out that the same thing applies to Twitter as well. A great way to communicate, but there is no way that I [...]

Is Google losing its simplicity? Sometimes I feel like it might be. After looking into this article about how Google is beginning to feel more like a searchable Wiki rather than a search engine, I cannot help but wonder if they are putting emphasis on stuff that is actually not all that important.
Look, Google offering [...]

Hate it or love it, Google Wave is here to stay. And as I read in this piece from TechCrunch, it appears that we are looking at Google Wave working pretty well with the iPhone.
What is interesting about this is that there is a warning that appears when trying to use Google Wave on the [...]

I really don’t believe that there is any way that Google is taking the news of the Yahoo!-Microsoft deal without a fight. Perhaps not so much in the public light, but behind the scenes, at some basic level.
The thing is that while Bing-Hoo is hardly a threat to the mind share that is Google, it [...]

I don’t think that there is any question that Bing is one of the best things that Microsoft has done in a long time. That being said, however, I simply do not feel that Bing is anywhere near being in a position to yet pose a real threat to Google. It just does not seem [...]

If you stop to consider the context of this article here, one might conclude this is the mindset of news conglomerates such as News Corp and AP. What makes this all the more funny is that this is actually an AP article that is linked above. How wild!
Sadly rather than working to evolve their perspective [...]

I really wish people would be more careful with their Windows PCs. Seriously, there is just no excuse to allow your machine to become a part of a botnet unwittingly these days. Yet despite my feelings on the matter, they are still very much a part of our lives.
In this article, we begin to see [...]

So while the above title might sound a bit off, the fact of the matter is this is exactly what some people are wondering. Should search engines begin crawling Ajax pages?
Google maintains the argument that if we did support Ajax web crawling, it would significantly improve the web and search as we know it. After [...]

Never been a big fan of the idea behind the social search engine. However looking at what StumbleUpon (SU) has for its own capabilities, maybe I am being a bit harsh here. Or am I?
The problem is that most people using a search engine do so looking to find out about specific info. And while [...]

Surprisingly, I think I love this idea of flat rate ad prices for local businesses. Despite still being in the testing phase at this point, Google is clearly feeling good about their latest advertising efforts.
What remains unclear however, is how non-local advertisers are going to feel about this should the program roll out nationwide? I [...]

As this article points out clearly enough, Bing now allows mobile users to use mobile search with their voices, much like you might see with Google and have seen for sometime now.
So here’s the rub, despite what the article claims about Google being first to market on this voice search functionality, the fact is that [...]

In this economy, now bundled with new competition from other search engines as Bing/Yahoo and Google fight it out, I cannot help but wonder where in the world this leaves Ask.com?
Unless you have a preference for their offerings or a tool bar installed, I fail to get exactly where their future is? Then I came across [...]

Seems like these days, there is just no pleasing the AdWords team. Then again, more often than not, the team has a reason to be concerned. Honestly, if you are peddling junk such as get rich quick or email harvesting schemes that promise free stuff, you are likely out of luck right now.
How will this [...]

Is Google going to maintain their market share for long? With Microsoft raging behind the scenes unlike anything I have seen before, it is beginning to look like Google may need to step up their game a bit.
With Google cleaning up things with junk landing pages in AdWords, further closing the clamps on AdSense, in [...]

Initially the news of Google de-listing The Pirate Bay (TPB) had a number of individuals up in arms pointing out that they felt Google was picking out TPB. As it turns out, the entire de-listing was in error.
The battle over TPB seems to be far from over. Whether or not it is actually listed with [...]

Upon first hearing about local search with Google Mobile, I was skeptical as to how worthwhile it would actually be for most users. After reading up on it a bit however, I am confident that most people will be pleasantly surprised with what they are going to end up with.
Not only is this search totally [...]

While Twitter is fast becoming the self-proclaimed kings of real-time search, Google offers up something far more interesting in Hot Trends blended into their search results.
Obviously, this is likely to appeal to a different audience than those looking for Twitter results in their search queries. But still, the idea of the hottest Google Trends being [...]