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Facebook saw search queries grow 10 percent in February 2010 and surpassed Google in the U.S. to become the most visited Website for the week ending March 13. Facebook.com reached the No. 1 ranking on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day as well as the weekend of March ...

Twitter March 15 unveiled @anywhere, a service that will extend much of the functionality of its successful microblogging platform to third-party sites such as Amazon.com, Microsoft Bing, Digg and eBay. Web site publishers will only need to add a few lines of JavaScript to their sites to enable this functionality, ...

Microsoft had a Web- and mobile-centric week, centered on developments with its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series and a redesigned MSN homepage, as well as another report of incremental market-share gains for its Bing search engine. The news also highlighted that interlinked nature of Microsoft's competitors in the online space, ...

News Analysis: Although Google still controls a significant portion of the search space, evidence suggests that Bing is gradually gaining ground on the search giant. It still has a long way to go. But if things keep up as they are, Bing may prove to be a formidable competitor for ...

Motorola March 10 said it has chosen Microsoft Bing search and maps to run on Google Android-based smartphones in China this year. The deal will manifest in the first quarter as a pre-loaded Bing bookmark and a new search widget with Bing, all running in the mobile browser of forthcoming ...

Microsoft Bing grabbed 11.5 percent of the U.S. search market in February, up from 11.3 percent in January, according to comScore. While Google grew slightly to 65.5 percent, Yahoo dropped from 17 percent through January to 16.8 percent in February. Microsoft may one day be able to attribute other actions ...

Consumer Watchdog advocate John Simpson pored over Google's 2009 Form 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and made a striking discovery. While Google listed only Microsoft and Yahoo by name in its 2008 10-K filing, the search engine listed 10 companies that it views as competitors in the ...

Google Labs' experimental Public Data Explorer allows users to view and create charts based on public data such as mortality and fertility rates. While Google already incorporates such data from the World Bank and other sources into its search results, this new application draws on even more publicly available information. ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used an onstage talk at the Search Marketing Expo in Santa Clara to discuss Microsofts market progress against Google, as well as admit that Microsoft had been in discussions with antitrust regulators over its search-engine rival. Ballmer also seemed noncommittal about whether Microsoft would consider purchasing ...

Yahoo could emulate Apple in the 1990s in taking years to restore itself to competitive health, CEO Carol Bartz told reporters during a March 2 event to commemorate Yahoo's 15th anniversary. Although Yahoo has aggressively sought to expand its more popular features while cutting underperforming applications and programs, the company ...

Microsoft told the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission how Google's business practices may be harming publishers, advertisers and competition in search and online advertising. Dave Heiner, vice president and deputy general counsel at Microsoft, claimed Google has created a network effect in search akin to Microsoft's own ...

Yahoo participated in the fray of integrating social networking with search results. Due to the alliance of Bing and Yahoo, Bing is responsible for all of the back-end work of actually crawling and indexing the Web, while Yahoo handles a unique front-end. The company does not plan to convolve the ...

Google enjoys more than 9 percent of worldwide mobile searches through Opera's Mini mobile Web browser, according to a new report. Opera said the Opera Mini was used by 50 million people to call up more than 23 billion Web pages in January. Yahoo only commands 4.3 percent of this ...

Google Feb. 23 said three Web companies have filed complaints with the European Commission alleging that the search engine is demoting their Web sites in Google search results and not respecting fair competition. Complainants include UK price comparison site, Foundem, a French legal search engine called ejustice.fr, and Microsoft's Ciao ...

Microsoft and Yahoo's search deal will give Microsoft's Bing search engine much needed scale versus market giant Google, but integration challenges are a certainty as the companies rationalize assets and partners, say analysts from FBR Capital Markets. Assuming all goes smoothly, Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal said it may take ...

Available this March, Skype is extending its mobile services to Verizon customers with data plans, over the Verizon 3G network. Initially the services will be available to nine Verizon 3G smartphones, including the Motorola Droid and several BlackBerry models, before being offered more widely; As of this week, the Justice ...

The Justice Department's Antitrust Division Feb. 18 cleared the search engine agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo because the deal is likely to increase competition with Google. Echoing what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said several times about the Microhoo deal, the DOJ said the transaction will improve Microsoft's ability to ...

The European Commission is expected to approve Microsoft and Yahoo's landmark, 10-year search deal designed to put a stop to Google's search dominance. Reuters said the European Commission, which oversees matters of corporate competition for the European Union, is expected to bless the deal. The EC gave itself a Feb. ...

Microsoft updates its Bing Maps application with more features, including one that integrates Flickr photos into its Streetside view, which presents an eye-level view of terrain. In the future, Microsoft plans to add real-time video, interior panoramas and constellation viewing to Bing Maps. The Bing road map for 2010 includes ...

Real-time search engine Wowd, has added a real-time tag cloud and a real-time streaming feature to the second version of its platform. Available Feb. 11 in Wowd 2.0, the tag cloud feature is based on hot topics customized to an each Wowd user's search query, Wowd CEO Mark Drummond told ...