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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Bing Reveals Most Popular Search Terms For 2010

by | posted: November 30, 2010
Bing, with nearly 2 billion searches in the month of October is the second largest search engine. So when it gives you an early preview of the most popular searches for the calendar year, it is worth sparing...
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Ask.com Surrenders To Google

by | posted: November 10, 2010
Ask.com, which seemed quite promising a few years back and even attracted media baron Barry Diller to buy it for $ 1.85 billion, has axed more than 130 engineering jobs in its bid to call its search business...
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Blekko – A Vertical Search Engine That Goes Where Google Doesn’t!

by | posted: November 3, 2010
Search in the times of Google – has been virtually a no go for many startups. It takes a lot of determination to be able to enter this space and compete with the likes of Google and Bing. Just ask...
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Google Me And Diaspora – Serious Competition For Facebook?

by | posted: September 17, 2010
Facebook is for social networking just like Google is for search engines. These facts have been long established and in spite of many competitors raising their heads in the search engine and social networking...
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Bing Beats Yahoo! In U.S. Search Engines – Google Still On Top

by | posted: September 15, 2010
Microsoft has reason to rejoice with a new report by Nielsen showing that Bing has become the #2 search engine in the US, pipping Yahoo! on its way. The report has indicated that Bing has gained a market...
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Google & Bing ‘Stay Away’ from China

by | posted: September 14, 2010
Recently, China has granted Internet map service licenses. Google and Microsoft’s Bing, two of the most popular search engines globally, have been indirectly told to ‘Stay Away’ for the license...
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Jobs, Travel, Mobile Phones Top Keywords on Yahoo! Search – Is There a Yahoo Anymore?

by | posted: August 26, 2010
Jobs, Mobiles and Travel have become the metaphorical roti, kapda and makaan (or bijli, sadak and pani) of Yahoo Search in India. A press release by the company on Yahoo’s “Top 10 Most Popular...
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Yahoo! Japan’s Googly to Microsoft: Alliances with Google

by | posted: July 28, 2010
Japan’s largest Internet portal site, Yahoo! Japan announced on Tuesday that it will now use Google’s search engine. The move, which was announced in a statement along with Yahoo! Japan’s first...
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Opera 10.60 Released : Claimed as the World’s Fastest Stable Browser!

by | posted: July 5, 2010
The Norwegian software firm Opera Software has released the final version of its 10.60 browser. It is claimed to be 50 per cent quicker than its previous release, and is also touted to be the “fastest...
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Google Gets Facebook Fan Page Updates on Real Time Search

by | posted: February 25, 2010
Google in a very convenient manner tweeted about getting Facebook Fanpage updates on to its real time search results. The news doesn’t have exceeding implications for both Facebook and Google,...
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A Revamped Bing Maps Has Raised The Bar – Can Google Match It?

by | posted: January 27, 2010
Presently, Google is miles ahead of Bing in all spheres be it popularity or sheer usability. However, Microsoft is keen to make people consider Bing a force to reckon with in the ultra-competitive search...
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Bing to replace Google on the iPhone?

by | posted: January 21, 2010
In 2003, when Apple did the unimaginable and decided to make iTunes for Windows, they ran a poster campaign saying ‘Hell Froze Over’. It looks like another Cold day in Hell (no pun intended)...
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