Posts Tagged ‘search engines’

Quick Take On The Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 5:26 No Comments

» Will Bartz be Yahoo’s CEO a year from now? Unlikely as they need a media/ad leader in Armstrong’s mold going ahead.
» Is this how the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) homepage will look now?
» Will Yahoo get out of mobile search too? They have far better presence and carrier deals than MSFT, that’s for sure.
» Since [...]

This was posted under category: Bing, Microsoft, Yahoo!, search engines, search marketing Tags:

Yahoo! Set To Launch Home Page Redesign; New Look For Search, Too

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:21 No Comments

After nearly a year of testing, Yahoo! is unveiling its overhauled home page, which it is describing as the “most radical” change to Yahoo.com since the company started 15 years ago.
Yahoo! search engines

This was posted under category: Yahoo!, search engines Tags: ,

Bad News for Bing

Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:08 No Comments

I like Bing. I really do. I would like to see a successful, viable alternative to Google for search. But there is some troubling news for Microsoft’s upstart search engine.
The widely-read Kim Komando reports that stats for Bing show that it has not eroded Google’s dominance in search at all. There is also a major [...]

This was posted under category: Bing, search engines Tags:

Interview: Microsoft Search Director Weitz On The Strategy Behind “Bing”

Friday, May 29, 2009 9:20 No Comments

Listen to this article
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 [...]

This was posted under category: Microsoft Tags: , ,

WolframAlpha Works Through Tech Glitches

Monday, May 18, 2009 10:32 No Comments

Listen to this article

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. [...]

This was posted under category: search engine content Tags: