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War Of Search Giants: Bing Beats Yahoo To Snag Second Place

by | posted: January 16, 2012
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

by | posted: September 30, 2011
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

by | posted: June 8, 2011
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

by | posted: June 2, 2011
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

by | posted: May 24, 2011
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

by | posted: May 20, 2011
“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

by | posted: May 18, 2011
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

by | posted: May 10, 2011
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

by | posted: April 25, 2011
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

by | posted: February 25, 2011
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

by | posted: February 18, 2011
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!

by | posted: February 11, 2011
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!

by | posted: February 2, 2011
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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Google Leads The Search Market While Bing Grows And Yahoo Falls

by | posted: January 19, 2011
Although Facebook has dethroned Google as the top website of 2010, Google can proudly claim that it is the largest search engine that exists today. No wonder the term “search it” has been replaced...
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Blekko Adds Facebook Likes To Search Results

by | posted: December 16, 2010
It would be hard pressed to find a lot of people being aware of the search engine called Blekko. Well, why would you? You Google everything you want. You wouldn’t want to be bogged down by another...
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Yahoo! India’s Year In Review – Search Trends For 2010

by | posted: December 1, 2010
Yesterday, Bing gave us an appetizer for search trends in 2010. And while that was US centric, today Yahoo has given us a meal – an Indian one at that. And just for the sake it, I’m going to...
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