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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]

News Corp is spoiling Google's fun (not to mention ours)

November 25, 2009 by seth levine with 188 views

So it’s really come down to this? News Corp is thinking about inking a deal with Microsoft/Bing whereby not only will Bing get access to News Corp data (WSJ, Fox, etc.) but they’ll also prevent Google from indexing their sites. This sounds like a lose/lose/lose/lose proposition. News Corp loses - fewer page views, less revenue for... [read more]

Why it doesn’t matter how big Twitter gets

October 26, 2009 by Tac Anderson with 167 views

There’s a lot of chatter about the fire hose data deals Twitter is making and will continue to make. The holy grail of data filtering in our over data flooded world is surfacing the quality content above irrelevant noise. This has proven to be the true value of Twitter. This strength is serious enough to be a credible threat to Google... [read more]

The (Re)Convergence of User Experience?

October 22, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 116 views

Something big may be happening to user experience. Bing and Google will soon be showing tweets as part of the search results (they have both licensed the full Twitter firehose and Marissa Meyer yesterday demoed a version of “Social Search”). Google is already returning videos from YouTube as search results and apparently will soon be... [read more]

The Problem With Anything Called “Name Here”-Killer

July 31, 2009 by Jeff Nolan with 120 views

John is right, in spades. That said, I don’t think LinkedIn is vulnerable to any new business network starting up, whether incubated at a newspaper on in-the-wild. LinkedIn is one of what I think of as one of the “three horsemen of the Social Web,” networks that are fundamentally about real identity and real relationships,... [read more]

Twitter Gets Some Viral Bang for Its Buck

July 20, 2009 by Andy Beal with 140 views

By Frank ReedWhen it comes to Internet marketing and social media marketing one of the most important metrics of success is the return on investment (ROI). Everyone demands to see something that measures this although most can’t agree on just how to accomplish that. Twitter is one outlet that people are trying to measure as to just how... [read more]

Bing’s Got Some Zing

July 9, 2009 by Andy Beal with 92 views

By Frank Reed Just last week the earliest of the early reports claimed that Bing had made some impact in the search engine arms race. Those numbers were met with a fair amount of skepticism due to the timing etc. Now Mashable reports that Compete.com has released US traffic stats that shows Bing is making some progress in more than just... [read more]

Expanding Web Search Part One: Focused Search-Based Applications

July 7, 2009 by Bill Ives with 117 views

This is the first of a two part series on how the boundaries of search are being pushed beyond the familiar Google-style broad Web search. Tomorrow I will discuss real time search. I recently spoke with Eric Rogge of Exalead about how search is playing an expanded role for enterprises inside and outside the firewall. He mentioned that... [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]

Has Microsoft’s Bing gained marketshare from Google?

June 18, 2009 by Tushar Mathur with 112 views

Microsoft Corp’s Bing search engine won more market share from rivals last week, according to new industry data, but still trails Google Inc and Yahoo Inc considerably. Challenging market leader Google — which in turn is looking to break into Microsoft’s core software market — is a long-term project, said Microsoft chief executive Steve... [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]

Bada-Bing! Microsoft’s New Search Engine Could Lead to Cha-Ching for Advertisers!

June 10, 2009 by Andy Beal with 56 views

It’s been almost two weeks since Microsoft thankfully retired the Windows Live Search brand and instead started asking us if we Bing. Well, aside from the initial reports that Bing is seeing an increase in market share, there could be an even more important benefit of the new design. Bing might just make more money per search query than... [read more]

From Atoms (GM) to Bits (Bing)

June 1, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 116 views

It is an interesting juxtaposition to have GM file for bankruptcy the same day that Microsoft launches its new search engine Bing. It would be difficult to find a clearer illustration of how the shift from atoms to bits is transforming industries. It is not just the recession that is causing a smaller demand for cars — the demand will... [read more]

The next Google

May 30, 2009 by Seth Godin with 178 views

Microsoft, home of the Zune, has just announced that they're going to launch Bing, a rebranding and reformatting of their search engine. So far, they've earmarked $100 million just for the marketing. Bing, of course, stands for But It's Not Google. The problem, as far as I can tell, is that it is trying to be the next Google. And the... [read more]

Google and Microsoft Role Reversal

May 29, 2009 by Tac Anderson with 262 views

What a day for tech news yesterday. If you didn’t hear all about Microsoft announcing their new search decision engine, Bing, and Google trying to steal their thunder by announcing Wave, welcome back from your comma. I think both products look amazing and think that both could be game changers, but does anyone think its interesting... [read more]

What A Day in Tech/Net News!

May 28, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 102 views

The frontpage of Techmeme is simply stunning at the moment. So many important things happening: Google announcing an attempt to completely remake communication and joint document production with Wave. See “Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave” on the Google blog. Microsoft is trying to get back into the search game with Bing. It... [read more]

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