Americans conducted 14.3 billion searches at the five core search engines in May 2009, with nearly two-thirds (65%) of searches performed on Google, 20% on Yahoo and 8.2% on Microsoft Sites, according to comScore qSearch data.
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Making his first public appearance since being hired to lead Microsoft’s online services division in January, Microsoft’s Qi Lu said the launch of the company’s new search engine—Bing—would provide “new energy” to the search industry. “This is a really good event for the industry because there will be more choices,” he told [...]

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Sure, Google’s dominance of search has been growing by the month, but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) insists it has identified what would appear to be a glaring opening: It says its own research shows that people are actually often let down by the search engines they use. (That’s Microsoft’s way of saying that [...]

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Netscape founder and angel investor Marc Andreessen is partnering with long-time co-investor and Opsware executive Ben Horowitz to launch a fund to focus on venture investments of about $500,000. Andreessen and Horowitz have been co-investing as angels for years, with average investments of around $100,000 per deal; they formed the new fund [...]

Another early morning gym workout. Need to be more consistent, though. #
Anyone impressed with WolframAlpha? Not me. Did some test searches on it today. Gimme a break. #
Here’s a shocker about MSG and a famous fast food restaurant chain: http://is.gd/B6wk #

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The WolframAlpha search engine made its debut Friday and continued testing through the weekend. The team brought up the engine live through an Internet feed, though it seemed like everything that could go wrong did.A few glitches in the live broadcast set the team scrabbling to make excuses for a late start. [...]

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We’ve gotten hints about Twitter’s business model from its founders, its backers and random speculators—but Kevin Thau, Twitter’s director of mobile business development, gave EconSM attendees a more tangible picture of the startup’s plans for a three-pronged revenue stream: It’s about search, carriers and content.
Thau joined Twitter in mid-January, since then, he [...]

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The Internet is the only medium expected to reap advertising increases during 2009, according to the latest edition of ZenithOptimedia Group’s quarterly tracking study on the advertising economy. The report, released early this morning, reflects a dramatic downward correction by the Publicis media unit, which now predicts the global ad economy will [...]

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On its face, Twitter’s decision to put a search box on the right-hand column of all its user’s profile pages and to put query results on those pages as well seems like a bunch of search-world minutiae. But the blogosphere clearly thinks the news is important (Take a look at Techmeme)—and this [...]

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Sure, you use social networks to keep up with your friends, share vacation photos, and let everyone know that you’re traveling to Singapore for work. But using these networks for research can be extremely valuable to you and your business. Here’s how.
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