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Google Gets ‘Caffeine’ Fix
After the recent announcement from Facebook and due to the growing success of Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, Google is having to step up it’s game in the search engine market in order to keep up with the competition, so has therefore released a new version of it’s search engine, that has been codenamed ‘Caffeine’. The interface of this new version, of the current market leader, is reported to appear…
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Microsoft and Yahoo! join forces in the battle against Google
In Microsoft’s latest quest to challenge Google for search market share, it has finally struck a deal with Yahoo! to really stir things up. After months of speculation over a possible deal between Microsoft and Yahoo!, they have finally announced their collaboration to take on their chief rival, Google. The deal proposed will see the two companies joining forces, with Yahoo!’s search engine being powered by Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo!…
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Google Launches Google Squared
Over the years Google has come to realise that some search queries performed on their search engine cannot be answered on a single page or even by a few web pages found in their results and that some actually require nearer twenty pages to find all the answers that the user is looking for. For instance if you were looking for a particular service, rules to a game or a…
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Can Bing Really Compete with Google?
A couple of weeks ago we announced the launch of the new Search Engine or 'Decision' Engine, as they like to call it, from Microsoft, that they have chosen to call Bing. Over the years, Microsoft has launched many new versions of it's search engine, Bing being it's fourth attempt, to try and challenge the Google's dominance in the Search Market. The previous endeavours have not even scratched the service…
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Bing – Microsoft Launches it’s new ‘Decision’ Engine
Last week, we wrote about the hype around Microsoft’s new Search Engine and the speculation about it’s new and improved name and we can now announce that it is, as predicted, going to be ‘Bing’. This new product, that they are referring to as a ‘Decision’ Engine, is Microsoft’s latest attempt in it’s battle against the current search engine giant, Google, and Microsoft feels that with it’s new features and…
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Sneak Preview of Yahoo!’s New Customisable Homepage
Over time Yahoo! have continuously been updating their homepage to try and make it as user friendly as possible in an attempt to attract the attention of Internet users across the world, and this week they have shared their latest design: The new design is being launched across both Mobile and PC homepages and is said to contain more "feature-rich" content and allows users to personally customise their individual homepages…
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Yahoo! Focus on Search Intent, not Results
After the one year anniversary of Yahoo’s Search Monkey project, Yahoo have announced that they plan to increase their search efforts and base their search feature around structured data. The head of Yahoo Labs and Yahoo Search Strategy, Prabhakar Raghavan, has stressed Yahoo’s desire to not only see the web as a group of ‘documents’ or ‘pages’, but a group of ‘objects’. This philosophy has been important to Yahoo for…
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Popularity of search engines continues to rise
Search is fast catching up with email as the most popular online activity, according to a recent US survey. According to the report, from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the percentage of web users who regularly consult search engines has grown from a third in 2002 to 49% this year. The most popular internet application remains email, with 60% of internet users writing or receiving emails on an…
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Search marketers want more competition for Google
With Google so dominant in the search market in both the US and Europe, marketers have been lamenting the lack of a rival to the search engine’s dominance of the industry. Google’s market share in the US was almost 70% in June, while in the UK this dominance is even more marked, with recent Hitwise stats giving it 87% of all searches in the same month. At the RBC Capital…
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UK search engine True Knowledge receives funding
True Knowledge, an innovative search engine being developed in the UK, has just announced the receipt of a second round of funding, worth $4m (£2m), bringing the total raised so far by the company to $5.4m (£2.8m). The funding will be used to expand the company’s staff and further develop the company’s technology, which it has been working on since 1998. The investment comes from Octopus Ventures. The search engine…
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