Last December toolbar startup Conduit announced they were bailing on Google search in favor of Bing. In January Bing surged in search market share, up over 2 points to 12.8%. You wouldn’t think Conduit was the main force behind the rise… Tweet This Post

Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, now has 27 percent of the search engine market and is quickly gaining on Google, according to Hitwise. Bing’s share rose by 6 percent in the month of January alone… Tweet This Post

In previous posts, I wrote about the epic battles that are brewing between spammers and content farms—which are turning the web into a massive garbage dump—and search providers, which have to choose between profit and customer satisfaction… Tweet This Post

Google Fellow Amit Singhal recently accused Bing of copying some of Google’s search results. Google had created what it calls “synthetic queries” – test search queries which tie two terms which normally have no connection, and discovered that after a while the same connections start appearing on Bing… Tweet This Post

This morning, Search Engine Land reported on some detective work at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) that seems to indicate that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is watching how some Internet Explorer users search on Google and using that data to improve its own Bing search engine… Tweet This Post

The evidence looks damning: Suspecting that Microsoft’s Bing search engine was copying some of its search results, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) planted results for never-searched terms like “hybbprqag,” in what Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan calls a “Bing Sting,” and voila the same results showed up when a user searched for that term on Bing… Tweet [...]

The recent victory of IBM’s Watson computer against human competitors in an exhibition round of Jeopardy got computer scientist Stephen Wolfram thinking about how regular search engines might fare in such a match-up… Tweet This Post

The search advertising market is still going strong. The latest report from Efficient Frontier shows that total spending on search-ads jumped 23 percent year-over-year during the most recent quarter, which the search engine marketing firm said was a sign of “larger budget appetite and competition among advertisers as well as increased consumer demand… Tweet This [...]

Local.com is making a play in the already very-crowded group-buying space, purchasing iTwango, startup that has developed what it describes as an “early stage” group-buying platform. The local search company says it will re-brand iTwango and distribute offers widely across Local… Tweet This Post

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… Tweet This Post

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 [...]

According to Ask.com spokesperson Nicholas Graham, while companies are expected to help community organizations, it’s not unheard of for these cause-related partnerships to also benefit the companies. After donating $25,000 to Autism Speaks through a targeted awareness campaign, 80,000 visitors changed their Ask home pages to Autism Speaks-related skins and 63% of campaign visitors became [...]