At the end of last week, Google Social Search broke out of its experimental phase, making itself available in beta for all users to create a more personally-tailored search experience.
Outside of Facebook (which has a strong privacy setting against being indexed by search engines), various blogs, social networks and collaboration sites a user is connected to will appear in SERPs when [...]
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Google News Now Trawling Wikipedia
Monday, June 22nd, 2009To acknowledge the popularity and large fan-base enjoyed by online user-derived dictionary/encyclopedia Wikipedia, Google News is now including it among the stable of publications its bots crawl to generate the site. While Wikipedia’s articles have long appeared among Google search results, now when you perform a search specific to Google News, some of the returned [...]
Read MoreBing off to a Respectable Start
Friday, June 12th, 2009While it remains premature to state victory, Microsoft’s latest attempt at search, Bing, is off to a respectable start. At a whopping two weeks old, Bing has generated a nice bump in users, possibly thanks to spreading the word about the newly released search engine.
According to comScore.com, Bing’s market share in the U.S. rose from [...]
Google faces class action suit regarding trademark infringement accusations
Friday, May 22nd, 2009Google has found itself in murky waters over its online advertising practices. There are companies who are livid about the methods Google allows paid ad placements to operate. Google defends its practices, citing the effectiveness of competitive trademark usage.
Geico, American Airlines and other large corporate entities have filed suit against Google regarding the competitive uses [...]
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