Google says Microsoft cheated by aping its search results. Microsoft disagreed with that term, but acknowledged using customer data to improve results. Pundits weigh in. – Google Feb. 1 capped a public smear campaign that
backfired by claiming that Microsoft’s Bing team is indeed cheating by copying
its results for some Web search queries.
Google last summer looked at the search results for an
unusual misspelled query, torsorophy. Google returned the correct spel…
Microsoft vehemently denied copying Google search results but acknowledged using customer data to improve its Bing search engine. Google disagreed, and the back and forth flowed. – A vice president for Microsoft’s Bing team denied configuring the Bing
algorithm to copy Google search results in an effort to boost search market
share.
What Bing does use is quot;clickstream, quot; or customer data from its
Bing toolbar to improve its search results, said Harry Shum, corporat…
Google is accusing Microsoft’s Bing search engine of copying Googles Web-search results, just ahead of a major Microsoft search event. – Google officials are accusing
Microsofts Bing of “copying” their Web-search results.
“Our testing has concluded
that Bing is copying Google Web-search results, and Microsoft doesnt deny
this,” Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow, wrote in a Feb. 1 e-mail to eWEEK. “At
Google, we strongly believe in …
The Kosovo Central Election Commission announced on Sunday evening the final results of the early elections held in Kosovo.
According to this, 34 madates were won by Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo, followed by the Democratic League of Kosovo with 27.
Good reports from Fiat and Hyundai Motor today.
And optimism for Ford tomorrow. Chrysler on the 31st. Black ink all round for a change? A rating agency thinks so but is cautious about the year ahead.
We’ve grouped most of the 2010 sales and profit reports into one handy home page slot, too.
Despite the sequential declines, selling is light with only 116,000 shares traded, as the results were largely within expectations.
OCBC, which has its previous Buy rating and $4.50 fair value under review, says the FY10 results were positive, notwithstanding the bumper gains.
The Kosovo Central Election Commission announced on Monday the preliminary results of the elections in Kosovo.
According to this, Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo won with 32.4 percent of the votes.
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 first quarter ended December 25, 2010. The Company posted record revenue of $26.74 billion and record net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $15.68 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion, or $3.67 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 38.5 percent compared to 40.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 62 percent of the quarter’s revenue. “We had a phenomenal holiday quarter with record Mac, iPhone, and iPad sales,†said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We are firing on all cylinders, and we’ve got some exciting things in the pipeline for this year, including iPhone 4 on Verizon, which customers can’t wait to get their hands on.â€
Customers are the most important asset of any company as they are the ones that let them flourish and progress. Thus, no firm can afford to lose any of them due to any misinterpretation or deficiency left by them in any product or services they rendered without knowing about it.
Software which can automate FTP and SFTP transfers is by far the most efficient and time saving way of regularly moving, synchronizing or working with files through an FTP server.
Google has added a new warning to steer users from compromised sites in search results. – Google has added extra notification to search results to alert users when
they are in danger of traveling to a compromised site.
When Google believes a site has been hacked, a sentence will appear under
the search result stating, quot;This site may be compromised. quot; Google
provides a simila…
Early results from the Kosovo elections held yesterday show the party of Hashim Thaci has the lead, while Serb parties that participated accuse each other.
The commission in charge of organizing elections in Kosovo (CIK) late on Monday announced the preliminary results.
Amtek Engineering (M1P.SG) is +5.6% at $1.03, back above $1.00 for the first time in 5 sessions.
Interest has been picking up ever since the stock reached a low of $0.945 last week, although it’s still trading well below its $1.30 IPO price, which investors had deemed expensive in terms of valuation, especially for a company returning to the market after being delisted in 2007.
Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković said on Tuesday that Serbia’s export-import ratio reached 58 percent in 2010. This, said the premier, while still low, represents the country’s “best performance this century”.
Xinren Aluminum (MN5.SG) is likely to be in focus after it posts 3Q results, with its revenue at RMB1.59 billion ($315 million), up 34.7% on year, attributable to higher export sales of aluminum plates; its net profit was 5.5% higher on year at RMB80.31 million.
Citigroup raises Global Logistic Properties (MC0.SG) target to $2.80 from $2.78, keeps at Buy.
Says strong fiscal 1H11 results helped by unique, policy-friendly business model, its China-Japan dual exposure.
