Matt Cutts says when you do a search on Google, you aren’t searching the Internet, you’re in fact searching Google’s index of the web which may or may not have every single website or web page. Another important thing is that when you search the Internet through popular search engines, you tend to get different [...]
Bing has been gaining at the expense of Yahoo for about a year now. While Microsoft’s Bing has now attained market share of 11.3 percent up from 10.7 percent level of December 2009, Yahoo’s search market share continues to nosedive. Google still remains the undisputed king with 65.4 percent market share. [Courtesy comScore data]
Facebook in its effort to catch up with Twitter has acquired FriendFeed. It’s win-win deal for both of them but more so for Facebook. Twitter has over a year or so outsmarted all social networking sites. The rapid rise of Twitter has been helped to the great extent by failures of Facebook and MySpace to [...]
Bing launching has been timed well. It seems Microsoft moved according to a perfect plan. Bing has been steadily moving up the market share ladder since its launch few months back. Now with Microsoft’s deal with Yahoo which positions Bing in a new role, the going will be too good for Microsoft. As the terms [...]
Microsoft has come out with a novel game to fine tune Bing. Page Hunt as it is being called asks users to come out with best queries which can rank the displayed page amongst the top five search results. Game is quite simple but when millions of users will participate and give out their suggested [...]
Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO for about six months now, has reportedly said that provided price is right and Yahoo gets access over surfers’ profile, Yahoo would be interested in aligning with Microsoft to take on Google. According to com Score, Google has virtual monopoly over search advertising with close to 65% market share. Yahoo ranks [...]
How many times you have wished if you could zero in on the most relevant results you are looking for in Google search, right in the first instance. But rarely does it happen. When you are searching for some specific information, you inarguably get your desired results after two or three trials. We all know [...]
How much of our time goes in to social networking? How much of our time we tend to waste aimlessly surfing the web?
