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Google Commands 66% Search Share over Yahoo, Bing

July 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Google held its 66 percent U.S. market share through June. Yahoo and Microsoft Bing notched 16.7 percent and 11 percent, according to adjusted numbers from comScore. Financial analysts question comScore’s search metrics. – Google retained its 66 percent U.S. market share through
June, while Yahoo and Microsoft Bing notched 16.7 percent and 11 percent,
respectively, according to adjusted numbers from market researcher comScore.
Search share didn’t change much when comScore July 12 stripped
away quot;contextually d…

Microsoft Bing News Beckons Google News Haters

July 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Google’s revamp of Google News is getting quite a lot of vitriolic backlash among users of the Google Web service who hate that their customization was disposed of in the changeover on June 30. The dislike is so severe that some users are turning to Microsoft’s Bing News or Yahoo News to tailor their interests. Last month Microsoft refreshed its Bing offering with new music and entertainment verticals. Lost in the shuffle were these changes to Bing News, Shopping, Health and Finance, which readers can view here. – …

Bing Gained, Google Fell in June: Hitwise

July 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s Bing continued to make incremental gains against Google in the U.S. search engine market, according to Experian Hitwise. Bing has continued to build out Web portal-like features to attract users. – Microsofts Bing continued its pattern of incremental gains, according to
research firm Experian Hitwise, which reported the search engine grew to occupy
9.85 percent of the U.S.
search engine market in June.
That represents a 7 percent change from May, when Hitwise estimated Bings
share of the…

Google Purchase of ITA Merits Antitrust Concern But Should Pass

July 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Google’s $700 million bid for ITA Software July 1 is sure to attract regulatory scrutiny because of the size of the deal and growing concerns about the search engine’s sway over the Web. Some believe Google could use its power to ding ITA customers Microsoft Bing, Kayak.com, Expedia and Orbitz. Others believe Google could use its strength in search to shuttle travel traffic to its own offering or gouge ITA’s existing software licensees in prices. However, some experts say the deal should ultimately pass muster because it represents the search engine’s expansion into a new vertical. – Google’s
$700 million bid for flight information
software giant ITA Software July 1 is sure to attract regulatory scrutiny because of
the size of the deal and growing concerns about the search engine’s sway over
the Web.
Some believe Google could use its power to ding
those that use ITA’s dat…

Microsoft’s Bing Improvements, Phone 7, Windows 7 Dominated Week

June 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsofts week demonstrated its strengths and weaknesses in abundance. While the company touted sales of 150 million copies of Windows 7, its desktop-based flagship, rumors abounded that it was attempting to pay iPhone app developers to port their wares onto the upcoming Windows Phone 7. Windows Live Essentials and the new Bing "Entertainment" tab show how Microsoft is approaching the cloud for both consumers and business users, but indications are that the company overall is still trying to figure out its overall cloud strategy, particularly as it applies to endeavors such as smartphones. – Microsoft’s week seemed in many ways to encapsulate its marketplace
position: Even as the company announced 150 million copies of Windows 7 sold
since the operating system’s October 2009 release, reaffirming its primacy of
the desktop, rumors abounded of its attempts to gain traction in the cloud…

Bing Improve Online TV Search Feature Posted By : Paddy Chang

June 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Live Internet TV | Online TV technology allows you to watch over 4,500 HD channels right on your PC.

Microsoft Urges iPhone 4 Users to Make Bing Their Default Search

June 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft June 24 suggested users of Apple’s newly launched iPhone 4 should upgrade to its Bing search engine, though Google remains Apple’s default search service for the iPhone and iPad. Meanwhile, the upgraded Bing app for iPhone and iPod Touch lets users connect their Facebook and Twitter accounts and see friends’ status updates from within the Bing app. The Bing team also upgraded its mobile browser, m.bing.com. – Microsoft June 24 suggested users of Apple’s newly launched iPhone 4 should upgrade to its Bing search engine, which just
upgraded its iPhone app and general mobile search application.
While Google remains Apple’s default search service for
the iPhone and iPad, the Bing team reminded users that i…

Microsoft Bing Tweaked for Entertainment, Movies, Music

June 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft introduced yet another round of new features for Bing, centered primarily on entertainments such as music, movies, TV, casual online games, and video games. From a tab on the search engines home page, users can now access movie trailers, gaming cheat codes, and even whole television episodes and songs& in effect, bringing Bing much more in line with a Web portal such as Yahoo. Since its 2009 release, Bing has been steadily adding features in an attempt to compete with Google, which continues to dominate the U.S. search-engine market. By adding entertainment features, Microsoft evidently hopes to keep its users on Bing longer, and make the Website more of a one-stop destination for their social lives. – …

Google, Yahoo banned in Pak

June 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court yesterday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon, for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material. Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a man named [...]

Microsoft Bing Adds Entertainment Features

June 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft tweaks its search engine, Bing, with updates centered on entertainment such as music, movies, TV and video games. Users can now search more easily for lyrics, listen to 30-second previews of songs through Microsoft’s Zune service, find movie listings and play casual games via the Bing site. Previous editions of Bing seemed focused on making the search engine a more robust competitor to Google, but this newest edition seems to reposition Bing as more of a Yahoo-like Web portal. Bing lags behind Google in search engine market share, but has been making incremental gains since its summer 2009 debut. – Microsoft is updating its Bing search engine with features centered on
entertainment such as music and movies, as it seeks to gain a little more
market share from search archrival Google.
Bing’s homepage now features an Entertainment tab, which leads to a page
with separate tabs for Music, Movi…

Apple Launched iPhone 4, with Bing and iOS4, This Week

June 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Apple launched the iPhone 4, the latest in its line of popular smartphones, on June 7 during the companys Worldwide Developers Conference. While Apple CEO Steve Jobs praised the iPhone 4 as a substantial leap forward for the device, it faces rising competition from the growing family of Google Android smartphones. The iPhone 4 will include Microsofts Bing as a search-engine option, along with a proprietary A4 processor and a 5-megapixel camera. Jobs also touted iPad and iBooks sales, as well as new applications such as Netflix for iPhone. – Apple rolled out its much-anticipated iPhone 4 this week, with company CEO
Steve Jobs taking the stage June 7 at the companys 2010 Worldwide Developers
Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco
to show off the next-generation device. Despite the iPhone 4s advanced
features, however, Apple finds itself …

Google Notches Highest Search Share Ever at 66.4%, Shows ComScore

June 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Google grabbed 66.4 percent of the search engine market through May, according to statistical adjustments from comScore. The market researcher said that Yahoo’s search share for the month was 16.6 percent, while Bing’s share was 10.8 percent. Those numbers account for the subtraction of contextual shortcuts and slideshows. Without the adjustments, comScore puts Google’s search share at 63.7 percent, Yahoo at 18.3 percent and Bing at 12.1 percent, which means the search engine has gained 4 percentage points since launching in June 2009. – Google grabbed 66.4 percent of the search engine market through May, its
greatest share ever, according to adjustments made by comScore.
The market researcher, whose methodology for calculating search engine
metrics is being questioned by industry watchers, said that Yahoo’s search
share for the…

Google withdraws background images on home page

June 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Google took back it decision of imposing a background of images to its otherwise usually wholly white home page. The major search engine displayed the page with images for merely 24 hours and took it backed instantly thereafter.
However, even when the home pages appeared for a short period, it was quickly commented by [...]

10 Reasons Why Google Is Still Better than Bing

June 11th, 2010 | No Comments

News Analysis: Microsoft Bing has come a long way since it was released a year ago. But that doesn’t mean that it’s better than Google. Whether Microsoft likes it or not, its search engine has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Google Search. – There is some debate across the Web over whether or not Google’s
decision to place a background image onto its search page for a few hours was a
shot over Microsoft’s bow or a show of acknowledgment that Microsoft is
starting to get to the search giant.
Of course, trying to determine Google’s m…

Microsoft Hopes Bing Will Power Yahoo by Late 2010

June 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft hopes it will complete the Bing-powered takeover of Yahoos backend search later this year, according to a Microsoft executive speaking at an investor conference June 9, although complications could delay that transition until early 2011. Those statements correspond with earlier blog postings by both companies representatives. Microsoft and Yahoo likely hope that their 10-year search-and-advertising deal will allow them to more robustly challenge Google in the online space, where the latter continues to hold the lions share of the search-engine market while expanding its reach in areas such as email. – Microsoft hopes to have Bing powering Yahoos backend search
by the end of 2010, according to an executive, in accordance with a 10-year
search-and-advertising deal signed by the two companies last summer.
Â“Were hopeful to go prior to the holidays, weve publicly
announced that were going to sh…

Microsoft Uses Twitter, Facebook Firehose Feeds for Bing Social

June 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s Bing team took another stab at making the search engine more social June 9, rolling up Twitter tweets and status updates and shared links from Facebook fan pages. Bing Social can only surface popular shared links from Facebook users in the aggregate form, and only those links from users who have set their status updates to be shared with "everyone." The work shows Bing is working hard to be a relevant player in the real-time and social search categories, which are clearly blurry thanks to the real-time nature of Twitter and the social aspects of Facebook. – Microsoft’s Bing team moves to make its search engine more social by
rolling up Twitter tweets and status updates and shared links from
Facebook fan pages into a new Website called Bing Social.
Bing began
indexing tweets sparingly last July, but kicked it up with the launch of its Bing
Twitter …

BP Snaps Up Search Terms from Google, Bing, Yahoo

June 9th, 2010 | No Comments

BP, which unleashed the worst oil spill in U.S. history in the Gulf of Mexico, has purchased key search terms from Google, Bing and Yahoo to ensure that searchers see its efforts to help however it can in the catastrophe it created. BP admitted to paying for search keywords so its response Website would rank high in search engines when users look for terms related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. – Do a search on terms such as quot;BP quot; quot;Deepwater Horizon quot; and quot;oil spill quot; on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing these days and you’re bound
to see a sponsored link to BP Plc’s Gulf of Mexico response Website.
The company that unleashed the worst oil spill in U.S.
history i…

Google Caffeine is Now Serving Fresh Web Content Faster Than Bing, Yahoo

June 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Google unleashed its Caffeine Web indexing system June 8, promising 50 percent fresher search results from its last index and more content than ever. Caffeine analyzes the Web in bits and pieces, processing hundreds of thousands of Web pages in parallel and updating regularly around the world so new pages or new information on existing pages are added straightaway. While Caffeine makes Google search faster than that of Bing or Yahoo, Google has resisted the notion that its work has anything but Google users in mind. – Google unleashed its Caffeine Web indexing system June 8, promising 50
percent fresher search results from its last index and more content than ever.
Caffeine comes after 10 months of rigorous testing, first within
Google, then within a single data center before being rolled out across all of
Go…

No Bing Default for the iPhone, but Microsoft Cheers Anyway

June 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft said it is thrilled to have its Bing search engine included for the first time as an option on Apple’s Safari Web browser on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and within the Safari browser on the Mac and PC. Apple CEO Steve Jobs proclaimed the news June 7 at Apple’s developer conference. The news ends speculation dating back to January that Bing would replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone, a move Jobs denied last week at the D8 conference. –

Apple Adds Microsoft’s Bing to iPhone 4, Joining Google

June 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced during his company’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 7 that Bing, Microsofts search engine, will join Google and Yahoo as search-engine options on the new iPhone 4. However, Google will remain the default search engine. Earlier in 2010, rumors circulated that Microsoft and Apple were in discussions over making Bing the iPhones default search engine, although Jobs in a recent talk denied that the company had any intentions of dumping Google from its mobile devices. Apple and Google find themselves locked in fierce competition for the mobile space. – Microsofts Bing has been added to the iPhone, Apple announced during its
Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 7, joining Google and Yahoo.
Â“Microsoft has done a real nice job on this,Â” Jobs
reportedly told the audience during his keynote address, according to live
blogs of the event. Ho…