Tag: Search Engine

Google’s Bing Sting Operation Has Microsoft Stung

Google’s Bing Sting Operation Has Microsoft Stung

| February 1, 2011 | 3 Comments

Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s own Big Think event for search in San Francisco, California, rival Google has released the results of its own sting operations which may cast a shadow on Microsoft’s efforts in the search space. According to search giant Google, Microsoft’s Bing search has been copying Google’s search results, which Google [...]

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Google’s New Site Specific Search String Not Really Working

Google’s New Site Specific Search String Not Really Working

| August 22, 2010 | 0 Comments

Searching with Google is simple, but searching a single site requires either that the site include a search box or the user remembering a special search command. For example to search Notebooks.com for the words Google Search” you would type the following: site:notebooks.com google search That is simple enough, but for some reason I can [...]

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Google Introduces Customizable Background Images on Home Page

Google Introduces Customizable Background Images on Home Page

| June 10, 2010 | 8 Comments

Taking a cue from Bing, Google has just made what might seem like a minor change to their basic search page. When you think about it, the change is actually a significant difference. And I think it is a good one. For as long as Google has been around, they have presented a simple mostly [...]

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Microsoft’s Bing is Live

Microsoft’s Bing is Live

| May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment

Bing MicrosoftBing, Microsoft’s new search engine, is live and ready for your queries. Like all search engines, Bing is supposed to make it easier to find what you’re looking for, but it is still under consturction and Microsoft has slapped a “Preview” label on it.

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Microsoft Announces Bing Search Engine

Microsoft Announces Bing Search Engine

| May 28, 2009 | 0 Comments

kumo-screen-annotatedMicrosoft will release its new Bing search engine worldwide on June 3rd in an attempt to recapture some of the market share lost to Google. Bing offers a dynamic searching experience with each query having a customized refining of possible matches using an algorithm to offer several categories of search results. Your search results will be organized into different subcategories collectively called Guided Search depending on relevency to your original search terms. One of the things I dislike about the current search engines available is the sheer volume of irrelevent clutter interspersed within the results. Hopefully, Bing’s technology will offer a new solution to this problem, which will increase productivity and decrease time spent clicking on links that are otherwise useless to the original search query. TechCrunch has a write-up on first impressions using a pre-release version of Bing.

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