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Wed Mar, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
The data for February’s search market share has been released by comScore. Both Google and Bing have gained share. Combined, they both gained .4% of the market. Both gains come at the expense of Yahoo, which lost the .4%. AOL remains unchanged at 1.6% and in a strange case of numbers not adding up (probably [...]
Mon Mar, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
msnNOW is a new service from Microsoft that tracks “what people are talking about, searching for, and sharing the most.” It launched on February 15 and so far has generated a decent amount of traffic. It seems to be able to generate a fair amount of referral traffic as well. The problem, however, is where [...]
Mon Sep, 2011 by Grant
Personalized search. Throw that term out. Personalized search is just the new search. For some time now, Google has been paying attention to (and using) your geographic location, language and context from previous search queries to deliver the most relevant (personalized) results. They keep track of your search patterns and preferences to learn what you [...]
Thu Sep, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Many commentators have wondered about the viability of the daily deals services. Yelp and Facebook have contracted their offerings giving credence to these concerns. Google Offers, however, announced Wednesday that it is expanding its service. Google Offers opened in Portland, OR, on June 1 and in July expanded to San Francisco and NYC. The delay [...]
Wed Jul, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Baidu, the largest search engine in China, has partnered with Microsoft’s Bing to provide the English language search support. China’s internet population is 477 million and there are over 10 million searches per day conducted in English. Baidu acknowledges, however, that those English language searches are not handled very well, so the 10 million number [...]
Tue May, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Another volley in the Facebook v Google wars was fired on Tuesday as Bing now incorporates Facebook recommendations into search results. Bing had already adopted a +1 system where users could vote up search results. If the searcher is also logged into his Facebook page, then a Bing search will show recommendations by the user’s [...]
Wed May, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
A surprise visit at the BlackBerry World Conference was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The surprise was to announce a partnership between BlackBerry and Bing. Not only will Bing be the default search and maps engine of BlackBerry products, but it will also be deeply integrated into BlackBerry’s new operating system. The integration is to make it easier for [...]
Tue Apr, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Despite the introduction of Bing as a potential player and the iPhone 4’s release, Google’s revenues rose 27% over last year’s figures. While business analysts might be down because Google’s earnings did not meet expectations, however. The shortfall in earnings is attributed not to any changes in the market but rather because of management issues. [...]
Wed Mar, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Yahoo called the fight and now it is down to just Bing and Google in the search engine wars. As of now Google is clearly the leader, as most searches go through Google. Google also seems best poised for the mobile search wars, which are soon to begin. However, Microsoft is a big dog in [...]
Wed Jan, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Yahoo says it expected the loss this last quarter. It recently merged its search engine with Bing and knew it would take time for that venture to pay off. Meanwhile Google upped its market share of searching from 77% last year to 82%. The verdict is still out on what this means for the future [...]