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Is Google a vampire sucking the blood out of media and the web?

May 7, 2010 by Ross Dawson with 244 views

Here is a nice video of the highly-respected Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand speaking at Web 2.0 Expo SF about how Google plays fair and less fair, giving a balanced view of the accusations of vampirism from media tycoons such as Mark Cuban and Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton. The video is well worth watching. Each of... [read more]

Study Reveals Google, Yahoo & Bing Users Perceive Your Brand Differently

February 15, 2010 by Andy Beal with 196 views

Previous blind-test studies have shown that results across different search engines are pretty much considered equal–once you remove the logo from such results. Now, a new study from Wunderman, BrandAsset® Consulting, ZAAZ and Compete goes one step further and demonstrates how the search engine used, influences the perception of... [read more]

Search Neutrality?

December 28, 2009 by Andy Beal with 199 views

By Frank Reed As expected it looks like this week may be a bit light in the news department. That’s fine. Everyone needs a break from time to time. So as I am looking around this morning I come across an op-ed piece in the New York Times that is written by Adam Raff, a co-founder of Foundem, an Internet technology company. From what I... [read more]

Double Down, But Only On The Right Hand

July 31, 2009 by Fred Wilson with 126 views

Last weekend, we watched Casino Royale on the beach in Slovenia, just up the Adriatic coast from Montenegro, where the story takes place. I love the scenes at the poker table, particularly the one where Bond goes all in and loses all his money.And that scene was in my mind when I was reading my friend Jason Calacanis' wonderful post,... [read more]

Why Semanti Smart Search is Going to Rock Your Social Web Experience

June 23, 2009 by Danny Brown with 170 views

While Bing has been making the news recently on the search engine front, new web browser add-on Semanti looks set to take search to another level again. Released to the public today, Semanti doesn’t seek to replace Google, Yahoo, or Bing. Instead, it aims to offer a truly semantic experience for anyone using these search engines to... [read more]

Why We Need Diversity in Search (Rooting for Bing)

June 15, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 154 views

Fred posted on the weekend about giving Bing a chance. I am doing the same this week having set Bing as the default search engine in Firefox. My main reason is that I firmly believe in the need for search diversity. A search mono-culture would be bad for the Internet for several reasons: Too much power. Search is so central to the web... [read more]

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