Archive for Search Engines

Yahoo To Spend More Than $100 Million On Marketing Campaign

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments by admin

The tab for the marketing campaign that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is set to unveil next week: More than $100 million, according to the NYT. That would put Yahoo in league with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which is spending up to $100 million to promote the relaunch of its search engine…

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DOJ: Google’s book settlement needs rewrite

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments by admin
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Your Google docs: Soon in search results?

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments by admin

Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets accustomed to publicly publishing their documents might want to rethink exactly how publicly available they want to them to be.  Google on Thursday wrote in a blog post that “in about two weeks, we will be launching a change for published docs. The change will allow published docs that [...]

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Bing Is Now the Fastest Growing Search Engine

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

According to a Nielsen report this week, Microsoft’s new BingBing search engine is growing faster than any of its search competitors in the top 10…

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Google Acquires reCAPTCHA to Fight Spam and Improve Google Books OCR

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

Google just announced that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, one of the leading providers of CPATCHAs, the hard-to-read puzzles you often have to solve before you can sign up for a new web service. Google, of course, isn’t so much interested in owning software that can generate CAPTCHAs – that’s an easy problem to solve – [...]

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Bing grabs 10 percent of search market

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

Microsoft’s new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday. The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July, winning Microsoft a 10.7 percent share of the search [...]

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Google Acquires reCaptcha To Power Scanning For Google Books And Google News

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, an open source technology that provides CAPTCHAs to prevent spam and fraud. Captchas are those security questions you find on Web sites that require you to decipher and type words or numbers and detects whether the user is a human…

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Google Adds Semantic Web, Facebook Support for Video Search

Sep 15, 2009 No Comments

Google announced today support for enhanced markup for video search. This will allow webmasters to include important information, such as titles and descriptions, in machine-readable HTML along with the JavaScript or Flash videos themselves…

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Google Fast Flip: Reading Online a Bit More Like Print

Sep 14, 2009 No Comments

Print has its advantages. In addition to its portability, a magazine or newspaper is easy to flip through to find what you’re looking for, or run across articles or ads you didn’t know you’d want to read. Whatever other advantages the Web has, and notwithstanding Dave Winer’s “river of news” concept, this kind of quick [...]

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Read news fast with Google Fast Flip

Sep 14, 2009 No Comments

One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and can take as much as 10 seconds to load over broadband, which can be frustrating. What we need instead is a way to flip through articles really fast without unnatural delays, just as [...]

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Where Google Is Really Big: India and Brazil

Sep 14, 2009 No Comments

Google’s dominance of the Internet in the United States is hard to overstate. The company accounts for two-thirds of all Web searches, it owns YouTube, which is 10 times more popular than its nearest competitor, and it is No. 1 in areas like maps and blogging. Overall, U.S. Internet users spend 9 percent of their [...]

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