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Bad News for Bing
Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:08 No CommentsI like Bing. I really do. I would like to see a successful, viable alternative to Google for search. But there is some troubling news for Microsoft’s upstart search engine.
The widely-read Kim Komando reports that stats for Bing show that it has not eroded Google’s dominance in search at all. There is also a major [...]
Twitter Updates for 2009-07-09
Thursday, July 9, 2009 23:59 No CommentsGoogle vs. Microsoft. The desktop Operating System Battle. http://is.gd/1sbom #
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Google’s Biggest Direct Assault on Microsoft: Open Source Desktop OS Based on Chrome
Thursday, July 9, 2009 7:12 No CommentsGoogle (NSDQ: GOOG) has officially announced it. And they are open sourcing it, as I suspected below: “Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the [...]
Twitter Updates for 2009-07-02
Thursday, July 2, 2009 23:59 No CommentsWorking remotely from New York today. Back to South Florida next week after a long absence. #
This is fascinating. Age progression photo showing Michael Jackson without all of those surgeries: http://is.gd/1lEE1 #
Bread can be dangerous to your health: http://is.gd/1lENL #
Hmmm, Bing is referring more organic traffic to some of my clients than Google. Interesting. [...]
Google Holds 65% Search Share in Pre-Bing Rankings
Saturday, June 27, 2009 11:27 No CommentsAmericans conducted 14.3 billion searches at the five core search engines in May 2009, with nearly two-thirds (65%) of searches performed on Google, 20% on Yahoo and 8.2% on Microsoft Sites, according to comScore qSearch data.
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Interview: Microsoft Search Director Weitz On The Strategy Behind “Bing”
Friday, May 29, 2009 9:20 No CommentsListen to this article
Sure, Google’s dominance of search has been growing by the month, but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) insists it has identified what would appear to be a glaring opening: It says its own research shows that people are actually often let down by the search engines they use. (That’s Microsoft’s way of saying that [...]
WolframAlpha Works Through Tech Glitches
Monday, May 18, 2009 10:32 No CommentsListen to this article
The WolframAlpha search engine made its debut Friday and continued testing through the weekend. The team brought up the engine live through an Internet feed, though it seemed like everything that could go wrong did.A few glitches in the live broadcast set the team scrabbling to make excuses for a late start. [...]
How Twitter Plans To Make Money From Search, Carriers and Content
Friday, May 15, 2009 9:37 No Comments
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We’ve gotten hints about Twitter’s business model from its founders, its backers and random speculators—but Kevin Thau, Twitter’s director of mobile business development, gave EconSM attendees a more tangible picture of the startup’s plans for a three-pronged revenue stream: It’s about search, carriers and content.
Thau joined Twitter in mid-January, since then, he [...]
Twitter’s New Search Function Matters - Google Interested?
Friday, April 3, 2009 10:09 No CommentsListen to this article
On its face, Twitter’s decision to put a search box on the right-hand column of all its user’s profile pages and to put query results on those pages as well seems like a bunch of search-world minutiae. But the blogosphere clearly thinks the news is important (Take a look at Techmeme)—and this [...]
You Should Be Caught Using Twitter At Work
Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:44 No CommentsListen to this article
Sure, you use social networks to keep up with your friends, share vacation photos, and let everyone know that you’re traveling to Singapore for work. But using these networks for research can be extremely valuable to you and your business. Here’s how.
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