PCWorld
By Ian Paul, PCWorld May 11, 2012 11:00 AM The battle between Bing and Google is getting personal, with both search engines fighting to become more socially connected. Microsoft recently added social features to Bing in response to Google's January ...
Microsoft Bing goes social in search war with Google
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Microsoft's move to boost Bing's social networking feaures could finally give it an opportunity to truly take on Google's dominant search engine, analysts say. The updated Bing search engine, unveiled on Thursday, ...
With new Bing, is Microsoft the first to get 'social search' right?
Washington Post
"90 percent of people consult with a friend or expert before making a decision," Microsoft says in promotional materials for the new Bing, announced Thursday and rolling out over the next few weeks. The pitch sounds just like Google's plan for Search ...
For Bing and Google, the future of search is social
Christian Science Monitor
By Matthew Shaer / May 11, 2012 The new Bing results page, which incorporates social search. It's a search engine, introduced in 2009 by Microsoft in order to compete with Google. As of last month, it claimed about 11 percent of the search engine ...
Christian Science Monitor
Microsoft Bing Friends Facebook
InformationWeek
In a few weeks, Microsoft plans to roll out a revised version of its Bing search engine that includes a way to involve Facebook friends in the search process. While the move looks like a response to Google's Search Plus Your World social integration, ...
Bing Social Vs Google Search Plus Your World: Feature Showdown
CIO
The battle between Bing and Google is getting personal, with both search engines fighting to become more socially connected. Microsoft recently added social features to Bing in response toGoogle's January rollout of Search Plus Your World (SPYW).
New Bing Takes Aim At Google's Search Plus Your World
WebProNews
By Shaylin Clark · 3 hours ago · Leave a Comment Yesterday, in what can only be described as a huge shot across Google's bow, Microsoft unveiled “The New Bing,” a completely redesignedsearch interface designed to shorten the distance between searching ...
'Obama Gay Marriage' Google Searches Spike 459% [INFOGRAPHIC]
Mashable
President Obama's mid-week announcement instantly made waves on social media such as Twitter and Facebook, but it's also taking Google search by storm, too. Web searches for “Obama + Gay Marriage” saw a 459% spike on Wednesday evening after the ...
hybris Integrates Google Commerce Search into New Multichannel Commerce Solution
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The new cross-channel search and merchandising functionalities, powered by GoogleCommerce Search (GCS), will be integrated into the existing hybris platform, giving marketers and retailers an enterprise-class search solution that is optimized for ...
Microsoft's Bing search to go social with new 'sidebar' for friends
The Seattle Times
Photo from Microsoft Microsoft made a big push Thursday in its race to catch up with search king Google when the company unveiled a new design for its Bing search engine that incorporates activities from a user's social networks including Facebook and ...
The Seattle Times
Google, Apple, Microsoft (oh, and Amazon): My multiplatform life
CNET
Maybe so -- but it sure gives you an interesting perspective on the modern computing universe. by Danny Sullivan May 11, 2012 12:19 PM PDT Follow @dannysullivan I was at the relaunch of Microsoft's Bing search engine yesterday, covering it as part of ...
Google concludes that search results are protected by First Amendment
TechSpot
By Shawn Knight Google has come to the conclusion that results obtained through searchengines are within the provider's First Amendment rights. The proclamation is in response to those that have complained that the search giant favors their own ...
Bing gets social sidebar, makes Google look bad
Macworld
by Jared Newman, PCWorld Microsoft's Bing is about to get a major overhaul, with a new sidebar that shows information from Facebook and other social networks. The "new Bing," as Microsoft calls it, consists of three columns on the search results page.
News Summary: Bing tries to shake up Google, search market by highlighting ...
Washington Post
FACEBOOK FRIENDLY: Microsoft's Bing search engine is switching to a new format that will sort results into three different columns. The centerpiece will be a feature called “Sidebar” that will highlight friends in a users' Facebook network who might ...
Google Maps update offers indoor walking directions
Fox News
Google Maps is stepping in a new direction -- indoors. The popular mapping service rolled out an update offering several additions including indoor walking directions, allowing users in the US and Japan to use Google Maps to navigate inside malls and ...
Insights From the Recent Penguin & Panda Updates
Search Engine Watch
by Pierre Zarokian, May 11, 2012 Comments Google recently rolled out three major algorithmic updates that have left many websites reeling. In between two Google Panda refreshes (on April 17 and 27) was the April 24 launch of the Penguin Update.
Bing Makes Triple-Column Play With New Interface Design
TechNewsWorld
By Richard Adhikari Microsoft has given its Bing search engine a makeover, building in a new triple-column interface that taps into the user's social network connections to enhance searchresults. Whether or not this will work "will depend on whether ...
Bing takes Twitter and Facebook but leaves the G+
SlashGear
In this update as you might well already know, Bing as a search engine will soon be transforming into a social network searching engine in addition to having the abilities it already totes. What's not included, it seems, are results from Google'smany ...
SlashGear
Microsoft Redesigns Bing as Search Engine Lags Behind Google
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Microsoft has invested heavily to refashion its search engine as an able competitor to Google, but so far Bing hasn't made much of a dent. Microsoft's share of US Web search was 15.3% in March, according to comScore, while Google had a 66.4% share.
comScore Releases April 2012 US Search Engine Rankings
MarketWatch (press release)
RESTON, Va., May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the US search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search ...
Yahoo's Search Market Share Is Dropping Like A Stone (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
In September, Yahoo had 15.5 percent market share of searches in the US Now, it's down to 13.5 percent. Yahoo's loss has meant gains for both Google and Microsoft's Bing over the same time period. Earlier today, Bing chief Qi Lu told us that he sn't ...
Bing goes social with Facebook, Twitter integration
TechSpot
By Matthew DeCarlo In what it claims to be the largest update ever, Microsoft will introduce social results to its search engine -- not unlike the "Search, Plus Your World" initiative Googlelaunched in January. However, instead of showing only Google+ ...
Microsoft's Bing search engine gets social-media makeover
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais, Los Angeles Times In a bid to pull more users away from rival Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it is rolling out the most significant revamp of Bing since itssearch engine's 2009 launch. "Over the coming weeks, ...
Microsoft makes Bing search engine social-network saavy
Boston Globe
But Microsoft has an even bigger bet on Facebook through an alliance between its Bing search engine and the social network. And that partnership is about to get even deeper. On Thursday, Microsoft introduced a set of changes to Bing that it says will ...
Google's Penguin Update Hardest on Small Business
BusinessNewsDaily
After all, being listed near the top of the results page on Google can be the difference between gaining new customers and losing them to another company. A recent series of changes released by Google is affecting the way the search engine giant orders ...
BusinessNewsDaily
Microsoft madness: Bing buoyant amid Browser brouhaha
SlashGear
On the other, the Bing refresh is seeing favorable comparisons between it andGoogle's contentious Search plus Your World refresh earlier this year. The Mozilla argument plays well with those who never quite gave up on the idea of Microsoft being an ...
SlashGear
Microsoft Adds New Friends to Revamped Bing Search Service
Forbes
Bing, introduced in 2009, is part of the money-losing online services division at Microsoft, which racked up $4.1 billion in losses in the last seven quarters alone. In March, Google had a 66.4 percent share of the market for search, with Microsoft at...
Forbes
Google Penguin and Panda Updates Explained | Facebook for ...
By Robert Gembarski
Google Panda Over the last year or so, Google has released two major updates to the way it ranks web pages in its search index. In early 2011 the Google Panda update was released, first during February in America and then in April ... Google Penguin The Google Penguin update has led to a lot of panic and confusion, much in the same way that they Google Panda update did. The buzzwords at the moment are “Negative SEO”. There is a belief (note, no actual evidence of the case) ...
Facebook for Businesses and Social...
New Semantic Google Search - End of Search Engine Optimisation?
By ItsHere
... these learned year by year. Here 2 articles to read about semantic Google.http://mashable.com/2012/03/22/google-semantic-search-seo/ http://www.ideamarketers.com/?SEO&articleid=3140119 What do you think about it?
Black Hat Forum Black Hat SEO
SearchReSearch: Announcing the new Google Search Education site
By Daniel M. Russell
Announcing the new Google Search Education site. As you know, one of the things we're doing is creating materials for students and teachers to use to both LEARN how to search, and TEACH others how to search. So I'm happy to announce ...
SearchReSearch
Google App Engine Finally Debuts the Search API
By Romin Irani
The feature was first requested 4 years back and support for the Search API on Google App Engine was announced a few days back, though in an experimental mode for now. The SearchAPI at a high level leverages the Google Infrastructure ...
ProgrammableWeb
Android is Google's Weapon in the Ecosystem War [Opinion] – Droid ...
By Ron
Below are some of the services and products that Apple, Google, and Microsoft offer: Search:Google Search, Bing, Siri Social: Google Plus, Facebook (Microsoft has heavily invested in FB), Twitter (iOS and OS X Mountain Lion have deep ...
Droid Life
Google Places & Local Search Buzz – Issue 3 – May 11 2012 ...
By Linda Buquet
Welcome to Google Places & Local Search Buzz #3 A weekly roundup of the most important tips and news in the world of Google Places and Local SEO. Important updates, bugs and tips in this issue. FYI NEW BUG ALERT, VIDEOS ARE ...
Google Places Optimization and...
Emmanuel Vivier : Microsoft Just Blew Google Away In Social Search
By Emmanuel Vivier
via businessinsider.com Microsoft is adding a new Sidebar to Bing search that shows your contacts and activity on all your social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and — yes — Google+. Google drew a lot of fire earlier this year by...
Emmanuel Vivier
iOS 6 said to replace Google Maps with Apple's own cutting-edge ...
By Christian Zibreg
If a new rumor is to be believed, iOS 6 - the next major release of Apple's iOS operating system powering the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad - will forgo Google.
iDownloadBlog.com
Microsoft overhauls Bing in mission to innovate search
By Tim Conneally
Microsoft on Thursday announced it will be rolling out the "most significant update" to its Bing search engine since it debuted three years ago. The new Bing design eschews the decade-old single-page search result design that ... Unlike Google, which integrates its Google+ socialsearch data directly into search results, Bing pairs with Facebook, and then relegates it to its own sidebar to the right of the page. Here, Bing suggests Facebook friends who might be able to help you find an ...
BetaNews
Tip of the Week: Tab Search in Google Chrome | The Internet In ...
By Daniel Levine
It's easy to begin to take some of it's useful features for granted, such as the “omnibox,” defined by Google as the address bar that sits at the top of the browser window and doubles as a searchbox — an innovative minimalist feature for ...
The Internet In Everyday Life...
Why Does Google Change Title Tags in Results? | Business 2 ...
By Steve Masters
Google is a recommendation service as much as it is a search engine. You search the index and Google then recommends web pages to you based on what you are looking for. If I recommend a car to a friend who is looking for a red sports ...
Business 2 Community
Bing to duel Google by using a Facebook-friendly format | Fox Rio 2 ...
By Interactive Dept
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft's Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook's social network and Twitter's messaging service to showcase information unlikely to be found on Google. The changes ...
Fox Rio 2 News RGV
Google – Google Search EducationGoogle - Google Search Education. Alright, so today we will be teaching you guys some ...
lybio.net/google-google-search.../science-technology/
Rolling Out HTTPS Google search | Mozilla Privacy Blog
Now in Aurora: Secure Google Searches are default. In Aurora when you search using the location bar, search box, or the right-click menu, your search ...
blog.mozilla.org/privacy/.../rolling-out-https-google-search/
Google search results showing details with a map - Stack Overflow
We're working on this site http://www.softsolutions.fr If you go to google.fr and type soft solutions, you'll get the website link as a first result with the map and some ...
stackoverflow.com/.../google-search-results-showing-details-w...
How to view, edit and disable Google Search History? | techfond.com
In the Google Search History window, you can select the corresponding ... You can also erase all your Google Search History by selecting Remove all Web ...
techfond.com/how-to-view-edit-and-disable-google-search-his...
Beating Google into submission: how to get better search results ...
Having problems with Google? Fed up with it ignoring your search terms and giving you something completely different? Or confused by irrelevant postings from ...
events.linkedin.com/beating-google-into-submission-994180
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