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Bing draws closer to Yahoo in U.S. Internet search engine market
Microsoft's ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) Bing search engine accounted for 15 percent of search queries in the United States last month, up from 14.8 percent the month before. This puts it just 0.1 percent behind
Schmidt: Siri a 'threat' to Google
Apple's ( NASDAQ: AAPL ) Siri represents a "significant development" that could threaten Google's ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) web search business, said Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. This acknowledgement was made
Google unveils WebP image format
Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) wants to speed up the Internet even further, and has introduced a new image format it says will enhance the performance of websites. Called WebP, Google says the format uses an
Google tweaks its search algorithms with Caffeine
Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) this week unveiled a new upgrade to its search engine called Caffeine. Announced at the Search Marketing Expo in Seattle, Caffeine involves an overhaul of how the Google index
Microsoft and Yahoo deal gets stamp of approval
Competition in the search engine world is about to get steeper and it may result in better, faster searches for users under a new agreement with Microsoft and Yahoo. The two companies received a
Top search questions of 2009
Everyone uses search engines to navigate their way around the web and get instant information and facts for business purposes, academic research and just plain old idle curiosity. In a little
Will Bing outage affect momentum?
Microsoft suffered an embarrassment last week when its highly touted Bing search engine went down for half an hour. The outage occurred in the same week that Microsoft was promoting enhancements to
Google to launch E-book store in 2010
Google is expected to launch Google Editions, an online bookstore in the first half of 2010. Google Editions will allow users to access books, with Google expecting to host more than 500,000 titles
Botnet implicated in sophisticated click fraud operation
An extraordinarily sophisticated operation has been found riding on top of the Bahama Botnet. Previously implicated in ads involving rogue antivirus software, researchers studying the botnet have
Of social networking and job hunting
I still remember an incident about 14 years ago when I was in line to borrow books from the local library. Interestingly, where I live, they already had a self-service check out then. Anyway, it was
