The whole Microsoft-Yahoo search saga has always felt like a soap opera, starting with Microsoft’s failed bid to acquire Yahoo in 2008, and continuing to the present-day shakiness of their… Read More
[Update: comScore changed its methods for collecting data in August, making the month-over-month comparisons invalid. The biggest change is in the combined total of Bing and Yahoo searches, as noted… Read More
Microsoft’s underdog search engine, Bing, is launching the equivalent of a blind taste test for the search industry today, inviting searchers to compare its results against those of Google on… Read More
New numbers from comScore Networks show Google pulling further ahead of Microsoft Bing and Yahoo in the U.S. search market in May, claiming its largest lead over its competitors since December… Read More
Microsoft today previewed a new version of its Bing search engine, with elements including a “social sidebar” that lets users quickly tap the knowledge of their Facebook friends for advice and… Read More
Google got even bigger in the U.S. search market in February — holding the top spot with 66.4 percent of the market and getting close to a new peak, according to… Read More
One of my chores this weekend involved searching Google on my home computer to figure out the hours of the local dump. And the record of the search is right… Read More
It’s a little like playing Pictionary with a search engine — drawing a sketch and seeing if the algorithm can return pictures that match it. That’s the concept behind Microsoft… Read More
Microsoft’s new msnNOW portal combines data from social networks and search, along with some editorial judgment, to provide a view of the stories and topics generating the most buzz in… Read More
Microsoft’s Bing search engine today launched a new feature called “Linked Pages” that gives people more control over which websites are connected to them, leveraging Microsoft’s partnership with Facebook. The… Read More
One of the most compelling things about SEOMoz co-founder Rand Fishkin is his complete transparency about the entrepreneurial voyage. Not many folks I know, lay it on the line quite… Read More
We’ve seen a number of high-profile online services get shuffled into the dust-bin of history in recent weeks after their corporate parents decided to pull the plug. (Namely Picnik, TeachStreet… Read More
OfficeSpace.com is one of the oldest ongoing Internet businesses in the Seattle area, tracing its roots back to 1995. At the time (the same year Amazon.com launched), the company touted… Read More
Google made some substantial changes to its search engine this week, part of an initiative that it calls “Search Plus Your World” that incorporates results from users’ social networks, focusing… Read More
Estately sometimes gets overshadowed in the online real estate industry by bigger consumer brands such as Redfin and Zillow. But the six-year-old Seattle upstart continues to push ahead, announcing today… Read More
Jack Kim spends his days as a student at King’s High School in Shoreline, taking advanced placement courses in hopes of one day attending Stanford University. Then, after robotics team practice,… Read More
Microsoft is aiming to own a minority stake in Yahoo as part of a bid led by private equity firm Silver Lake, according to Bloomberg News and the New York… Read More
Like Scotty in Star Trek, the day is coming soon when we’ll talk with our computers instead of just typing at them, according to a prominent UW computer scientist and… Read More
Google today announced the long-awaited debut of pages for businesses on Google+, looking to boost the functionality of its fledgling social network and rival the utility of Facebook and Twitter… Read More
The two major search engines, Google and Microsoft Bing (does Yahoo count anymore?) outdid themselves on Halloween this year. Google’s 2011 Halloween Doodle was a fun time-lapse video of the… Read More
How would Megan Fox search? Microsoft is seeking a patent on the concept of applying a “persona” to Internet search results — allowing people to see results shaped by the… Read More
Can Microsoft Tiger take a bite out of Google? The Redmond company tonight released the first details of a collaboration between Microsoft Research and Bing engineers in China and the… Read More
It’s the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s landmark Nevermind release, and the world is taking a moment to reflect. “The album would go on to usher in rock’s great renaissance, cause… Read More
It will be a very interesting day for the technology industry in Washington, D.C., as the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing called, “The Power of Google: Serving Consumers… Read More
Microsoft Bing says it’s about to start rolling out a new feature called Adaptive Search that will take users’ search history into account to determine which results it shows when… Read More
Carol Bartz, the fiery Yahoo leader who entered the company into an alliance with Microsoft in an attempt to challenge Google in the Internet search market, is no longer the… Read More
Google has agreed to forfeit $500 million, one of the largest penalties of its kind, for letting Canadian pharmacies market prescription drugs to U.S. citizens through its AdWords online advertising… Read More
InfoSpace has hinted at plans to go on a buying spree. And with $263 million in cash and cash equivalents on the books, the Bellevue Internet search company is poised… Read More
Google is making a major change to its search results pages, giving a huge amount of real estate to the secondary “sitelinks” that point to pages inside websites. We first… Read More
An extensive look at Microsoft Bing’s attempt to challenge Google, published by the New York Times today, will get lots of attention for the irresistible opening anecdote about Bing general manager… Read More