Search Engines

"Don't Be Evil": How Larry Page and Sergey Brin Really Think and Should We Worry About Google's Dominance

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books


Anis Shivani

We shall see if Larry and Sergey's collective brain can keep up with the spontaneous evolution of the Internet.

Tweets Don't Overlap With Search Trends, Study Shows

techcrunch.com | Posted 11.30.2009 | Technology


The overlap between trending search terms and Tweets is remarkably low (even if Twitter itself is a popular search term). A couple weeks ago I was mod...

Happy Thanksgiving! This Year It Is No Longer Humiliating To Be Explaining Your Unemployment Around the Thanksgiving Table!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 11.25.2009 | Media


Stephen Viscusi

Losing your job is dreadful, no matter what the reason. In this journalist's mind, it is still better than health issues, divorce, or death -- but t...

Google Music Search Launches (VIDEO)

googleblog.blogspot.com | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology


Google has announced in a blog post that Google Music Search is officially "rolling out." This new feature will allow users to hear song previews and ...

Search as Dialog

Jan Pedersen | Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology


Jan Pedersen

We see Bing as the first step in this long process of transforming search from something which often points you somewhere else to try and find your answer.

Search Wars -- With Bing, Twitter and Facebook, There's More to Searching Google

Danny Sullivan | Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology


Danny Sullivan

It's easy to assume that when it comes to search, there's Google and nothing else. That was never the case.

Google Better Than Bing, Yahoo Study Finds

InformationWeek | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology


A group of 1,100 software testers has rated Google the best search engine in terms of accuracy, speed, and relevance. ...

Google Economist Sees Good Signs For US Economy Based On Searches

Washington Post | Cecilia Kang | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business


Google chief economist Hal Varian is pretty confident the national economy is recovering, and he's not just basing that on government data. He says h...

How Bing and Twitter Can Save Journalism

Maegan Carberry | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media


Maegan Carberry

The emergence of Bing and Twitter mark the first formidable competitors to Google, which until now has monopolized the market on search, and thus the diversity of thought in journalism's Internet era.

Hunch.Com Gives You Insight To Your Searches

Los Angeles Times | David Sarno | Posted 07.16.2009 | Home


Hunch: Hunch.com helps users search for answers -- but first, it performs a detailed search on the users themselves. GET THE LATEST NEWS & TRENDS...

Microsoft Launches Oral Sex Search Engine

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.10.2009 | Comedy


Andy Borowitz

In a related story, a new study commissioned by the University of Minnesota shows that articles with the words "oral sex" in the headline are three times as likely to be clicked on as those without.

Disrespecting the Bing

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business


Eric Dezenhall

Pepsi annexed graphic elements of the Obama campaign's logo. Mario Lavandeira lifted the name of an exhibitionist heiress, gave it a Latino twist, and emerged with staggering success. The appropriation of brands is epidemic, and the Internet is only making it worse.

Release 0.9: Parsing Microsoft's Bing

Esther Dyson | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media


Esther Dyson

Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, is like turning on the light and tidying things up a bit so you can find what you're looking for on the Web, nicely arranged in transparent data drawers.

Microsoft To Overhaul Search Engine But Expected To Struggle Against Google

Financial Times | Posted 06.25.2009 | Media


An overhaul of Microsoft's internet search engine could finally put the quality of its service more on a par with search group Google, but the softwar...

Why Wolfram Alpha Flopped

Peter Schwartz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Business


Peter Schwartz

Let's be blunt: Wolfram Alpha is terrible because Stephen Wolfram doesn't respect and fear data.

All the Things People Thought Google Would Do but It Hasn't

Nicholas Carlson | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business


Nicholas Carlson

Here's a list of things people thought Google would do, but it hasn't.

Technology, Not War, Is the Solution to Publishing

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media


Penny Herscher

The global publishing giants have declared war on the new technology generation of content distributors -- but they have lost sight of what consumers value and how they want to get to the value.

Five Tips for Using the Social Web for Free Marketing

Lawrence Coburn | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business


Lawrence Coburn

Here are five easy, cost effective things you can do to leverage the social web to drive exposure, customers, and revenue.

Google Glitch Briefly Disrupts World's Searches

New York Times | Liz Robbins | Posted 03.03.2009 | Business


Google has become part of so many people's lives on this planet, like a dependable appendage -- until suddenly it malfunctions. Such was the case, ...

4 Questions I'd Like To Ask Google On The iPhone

Julia Cheiffetz | Posted 12.15.2008 | Media


Julia Cheiffetz

Today Google announced the release of a new voice recognition application for its search software on the iPhone. There are four questions I'd like to ask.

Courtenay Semel, Daughter Of Former Yahoo Chief: "Google Me, You Dumb F***"

TMZ | TMZ Staff | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business


A security guard at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is suing the daughter of former Yahoo honcho Terry Semel for allegedly pummeling him in a drunken stup...

Top 20 Strangest Google Searches

Published: 1:26PM BST 09 Sep 2009 | Posted 09.10.2009 | Technology


A feature from Google Labs gives you real-time suggestions for search queries as you type them. Some of the results are hilarious. The suggestions are...

Microsoft Buys German Company To Up European Presence

AP | Posted 09.29.2008 | Business


SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. is buying a Munich, Germany-based Web comparison shopping site and its parent company for about $486 million in cash. ...

Release 0.9 -- Search 2.0

Esther Dyson | Posted 06.05.2008 | Business


Esther Dyson

Microsoft and its competitors are only interested in monetizable tasks, as opposed to booking a meeting with a friend ... but someday marketers will realize people don't use the Web only to buy things.

Why Your Internet Job Search Isn't Working

ABC News | Kim Komando | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Do your New Year's resolutions include finding a new job? The Internet is a great resource for job seekers. But far too many people don't use it effec...