Microsoft Bing market share improves again
Microsoft Bing is gaining market share albeit at a very slow pace.
It is however performing much better than its predecessor Microsoft Live search.
Bing managed to grab around 9.3 percent of the US based searches last month.
This is up from 8.9 percent in July.
Google’s market share was [...]
Google search results now feature clusters
Google has a new feature on their search engine result pages.
The search pages now show clusters for some queries.
Most of these work with discussion forums like Yahoo Answers and Google Groups.
The aim is to get more links on a single search result page.
Google incidentally uses [...]
Nielsen: Bing now has 10% market share in USA
Market research firm Nielsen has reported that Microsoft Bing search engine has now gained a 10% market share in USA.
The latest data from their research report claims that Bing now enjoys around 10.7% of the market.
Google continues to dominate with 64.6% of all the [...]
Brad Garlinghouse joins AOL
AOL has announced that they are now hiring services of Brad Garlinghouse who was once working for Yahoo.
Brad Garlinghouse is great addition to the AOL team as they prepare to separate from Time Warner.
Garlinghouse is known for his internal memo at Yahoo which had predicted in 2006 that the internet [...]
Yahoo aims to take on Bing with user interface
Yahoo recently announced a deal with Microsoft which would see them use Bing engine for their search result pages.
The deal has to be approved by the regulatory bodies.
Yahoo has now hinted that they are not dropping out of the search engine market just like that. [...]
Microsoft, Yahoo! and Amazon take on Google Book Search project
Microsoft, Yahoo! and Amazon are joining the Open Book Alliance.
This alliance is taking on Google on their book search project which aims to index all the available books in the world.
Google makes the content searchable on their service. Web users also get the ability [...]
Apple iPhone set to become the most popular camera on Flickr
Flickr has a section on their website named Camera Finder.
This section shows the most popular camera models which are used for the photos that are uploaded on the service.
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi has been dominating the charts since a long time. [...]
comScore: Google has loyal users
Market research firm comScore has said in its latest report that most Google users are loyal to the brand and are unlikely to leave for a rival service easily.
comScore search evangelist Eli Goodman had this to say in the report: “The recently announced search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo! certainly [...]
Yahoo acquires OMG.com for just USD 80,000
TechCrunch is reporting that the US based internet media giant Yahoo has just acquired a cool domain name.
Yahoo has acquired OMG.com for just around USD 80,000. This is a pretty good buy for the company considering the domain name sounds pretty hip and has just three letters.
Yahoo [...]
Comcast launches dead web page redirection service on their network
Comcast has announced that they have now implemented their Domain Helper program on their entire network.
This program forwards any request to a non working web page to a customized Yahoo search result page which of course also contains advertisement.
The company said that the [...]
