Posts Tagged ‘Search’

Bing U.S. market share approches 10%

We have some news coming out of the world of those new-fangled “search engines” that are so popular with the kids; it looks like Microsoft’s re-branded search product’s market share is creeping up on double digits in the U.S., currently…

Google Search by voice now available for Nokia S60 handsets

It doesn’t get any better than being able to do stuff with your phone just by talking into it, and now Google is bringing that experience to Nokia S60 devices. For those of you with iPhones and BlackBerrys, you’re probably…

TweetGenius v1.1 launches!

That’s right, y’all! We’re back. Sorry to keep you waiting but we wanted to make sure this was rock solid, and we really wanted to add in some more features that people have been requesting. TweetGenius v1.1 is now available…

Microsoft and Yahoo ink search deal

Microsoft and Yahoo fiiiiiiiiiiinally announced a search partnership this morning, bringing to an end months of endless rumors and speculation. The deal will provide Microsoft with a 10-year license to use Yahoo’s core search technologies and integrate Yahoo’s platform into…

Microsoft’s Bing mobile site now live

We’re not sure if Microsoft plans to get as deep into the mobile website business as Google but as of yesterday, the company’s new Bing mobile site is alive and ready for action. Bing, for those who took a long…

Microsoft Bing search engine goes live

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is now live for users to test drive. Though labeled a “preview”, the search site is fully functional and all live.com search requests are being re-directed to Bing. Using Bing is not nearly as bad…

Microsoft Bing gets previewed on video

Now, we’ll preface this by saying that it is absolutely, positively, 100% impossible to draw any real conclusions about a product like a search engine without a fair amount of hands-on time. After viewing this preview video, we can also…

Microsoft to debut Bing search engine alongside $80 million ad campaign

It’s been a while since rumblings of Kumo, Microsoft’s codename for its new searching engine offering, made the rounds. From the looks of things, that’s about to change… Big time. Redmond is said to be preparing to launch Kumo —…

Yahoo US search share sputters, Google rebounds

Following a six-month upward trend for Yahoo’s US search market share, Bartz’s baby hit a brick wall in February according to comScore, sliding slightly from 21 percent in January to 20.6 percent. It’s a very small decline of course, but…

Yahoo’s share of US search market continues to climb while Google actually slides

Wait, what? Is that headline right? Indeed it is folks – if comScore’s January numbers are to be believed at least. The authority on web-watching has just issued its most recent US search engine market share data and jaws around…

Yahoo lowers the bar, in a good way this time

Yahoo might not have named its new CEO yet but that hasn’t stopped higher-ups from announcing a huge executive decision today that will hopefully help set a new standard for other big internet companies. In a press release this morning,…

Revived Yahoo search deal for Microsoft is “total fiction” for the time being

As much sense as it would make for Microsoft and Yahoo to come back to the table now that Jerry Yang is out of the way, yesterday’s rush of news may have been a bit premature – if not simply…

Apple possibly working on a search engine?

File this one under kinda, maybe, probably not – but the rumor du jour on this fine Thursday morning is that Apple may well be toying with the idea of taking on the Big G in the search game. On…