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‘In India, A Stunning 97% Of All Searches Take Place With Google’, Reports StatCounter

When you ask someone about Internet Search, by and large, most people associate it with one name, Google. Other competing search providers do exist, such as Yahoo, Bing and Rediff even Facebook could...
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Microsoft To Revamp Bing By Adding Social Element; Should Google Be Worried?

Microsoft‘s Search Engine AKA Bing has tried time and again to shift people over from using Google for search. Microsoft tried to make it the default search provider on Internet Explorer on PC’s....
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Microsoft Must Sell Bing To Facebook, Says Nomura Analyst

The battle for dominance in Internet Search is over and Google has emerged as the winner. The only other worthy competitor, Bing from Microsoft is basically just cutting down Microsoft’s profit margins...
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War Of Search Giants: Bing Beats Yahoo To Snag Second Place

In the war of search engines comScore has revealed that Microsoft’s Bing has just surpassed Yahoo! Search. Bing & other MS sites fielded 2.75 Billion search requests as against Yahoo’s 2.65 Billion....
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Yahoo Plans To Upgrade; Will Focus On Advanced Search & Mobiles In India

Yahoo is all set to implement a road map that aims at improving its service in India and snatching away market share from rivals. Yahoo has struggled to gain foothold in the country after losing out to...
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Google, Yahoo, Facebook Mark World IPv6 Day

Many experts predict that internet is fast running out of addresses. Every device connected to internet has a unique address called its IP (Internet Protocol) address. The current standard for IP addresses...
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Google +1 Button For Websites Has Arrived

The proclaimed nemesis of the Facebook ‘Like button’ has finally arrived. Google has released the +1 button for websites. Since its launch in March publishers have been eager to use the +1...
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Facebook Will Fight Child Pornography With The Help Of Microsoft

Facebook has decided to use PhotoDNA, an image analysis software, to fight child pornography. The software will scan all the images uploaded on Facebook and block the ones showing child pornography. PhotoDNA...
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Google Rolling Out Social Search Globally

“Today, we’re bringing Social Search to more users around the globe,” read a blogpost on the Google Social Web Blog. The search engine behemoth had initially started the Social Search service in...
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Microsoft-Facebook Partnership Brings More Social Results To Bing

Microsoft is making some changes in its search engine, Bing. In the official blogpost, Microsoft announced “Research tells us that 90% of people seek advice from family and friends as part of the decision...
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Google Improves Image Search By Allowing Users To Sort By Subject

Google wants to make your image search simpler. The search giant will now allow users to sort image search results by subjects. So, how does this exactly work? Google’s Donald Tanguay explains in...
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Google Improves Autocomplete, Which Combined With Instant Accelerates Search

Google is improving its autocomplete feature. When users type something in the search box, this feature predicts your search. This allows you to refine your search. Until now autocomplete was based on...
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Bing Brings Facebook Likes To Search Results

Just days after Google upgraded its Social Search including shared content from Twitter, Flickr and Quora, Bing announces that it will include URLs, liked and shared by users on Facebook, in its search...
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Google Tweaks Social Search And Bing Bar Gets Facebook Integration

Remember Google’s Social Search? Google’s attempt to inject a ‘social’ element to its search results? As interesting as the idea sounded on paper, when it was announced around October...
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Nokia And Microsoft Smartphone Partnership Confirmed!

Well, it looks like all that speculation was not for nothing, ‘burning platform’ memo et al. In a joint open letter posted on Nokia’s website, the two companies confirmed what everyone...
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Google VS Bing – The Gloves Are Off As Google Accuses Bing Of Cheating!

This reminds me of the Cola Wars. Except that those were still veiled and carried out through ad campaigns. Google VS Bing, which was until now largely a ‘feature war’, has turned into an all...
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