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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New RSS search Engine: CtrlQ

by | posted: April 25, 2011
CtrlQ is an RSS search engine discovered by Labnol. RSS in case you’re wondering is an easy way to view the latest posts on sites generally on a client like google reader without having to visit...
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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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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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Facebook Inks A Deal With Russian Search Giant Yandex

by | posted: October 29, 2010
In a move that could dramatically increase the user base of Facebook in Russia, the social networking giant has signed a deal with the country’s largest search engine Yandex for status updates. Both...
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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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Yet Another Search Engine In The Making – But You’ll Like This!

by | posted: August 27, 2009
When I read this news article in the morning today, I was wondering if the search engine market was getting a little too crowded now. How many more search engines do we need when close to three fourths...
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No Binging. In India, It’s Only Googling!

by | posted: August 20, 2009
The honeymoon period is over and it’s time for some serious business for Bing. It has been close to three months since Bing was launched by Microsoft on the back of a huge $100 million promotion...
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Google Caffeine – Google Search Improved

by | posted: August 14, 2009
For quite some time, the net was ablaze with how Bing was trying to one-up Google. Then there was Wolfram and other “decision engines”, then there was Collecta and a huge list of other real-time...
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Bing includes Twitter in results – real time search? Not Quite

by | posted: July 3, 2009
The Bing v/s Google Battle has been raging on for quite some time now. Companies are giving Twitter a lot of attention, and it’s not rivals like Facebook , but software giant Microsoft who has also...
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Guruji’s Monetization Plans Underway.. Ad Network Foray Crucial For Its Future?

by | posted: March 10, 2009
Guruji has launched its own ad network and it joins the long list of ad networks out there trying to make better of a slowing economy. Why is it important? – Guruji is the ad network funded by Sequoia...
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Startup Review: SnappyFingers.com – A Search Engine For QnA/Faq’s

by | posted: October 4, 2008
Its a saturday and though there is no Startup Saturday happening in Mumbai today but that doesn’t stop us from covering an interesting bangalore based startup. The startup we are taking about is...
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Ex-Googlers Launch ‘Cuil.com’ – They Claim Its Bigger.. Better than Google!!

by | posted: July 28, 2008
  Well lots of attempts have been made including claims of making a search engine better than google. There have been startups like Powerset or Mahalo both of which use natural language or human powered...
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TheF!nd.com. Next Gen Search and Shopping Engine

by | posted: July 15, 2007
     Here is a next generation online shopping engine focussed on Lifestyle segment. Thefind the website has been on platform for sometime now, the latest news is that they have got...
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Is Google really the best search engine around?

by | posted: April 28, 2007
PC World decided to find the best search engine  for various different types of searches. In all, they tested 55 different services, across six categories: general (text info), video, mobile/local,...
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ByIndia.com giving 5 million dollar sweepstake!

by | posted: January 30, 2007
Web2Corp’s which recently invested in ByIndia.com, a search engine and social networking site, is now offering a $5 million dollar (USD) sweepstakes to new registrants to any of its properties. Starting...
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