Our latest Geek of the Week, Jacquelyn Krones, is a true research geek — the type of person who loves digging into data and, better yet, being surprised by what… Read More
Our guest this past week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast was Rand Fishkin, the CEO of SEOmoz, the Seattle-based search-engine optimization software company. We talked about subjects including… Read More
Microsoft today is releasing an update for its well-received Bing app for Apple’s iPad, with a new feature designed to streamline the process of conducting online searches on the touch-screen… Read More
Microsoft today confirmed an expanded partnership with China’s largest search engine, Baidu, to provide English search results to Baidu users in the country. The arrangement promises to give the Redmond… Read More
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s positive comments about the company’s financial outlook during his Seattle Rotary Club appearance yesterday appear to be causing a minor stir in the stock market today,… Read More
It’s official: Google just filed a public notice acknowledging that its business practices are under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. “On June 23, 2011, Google Inc. received a subpoena and… Read More
More than five years ago, Mike Fridgen, Oren Etzioni and others transformed the way people purchased airline tickets on the Web by telling shoppers the best time to buy. Their Seattle… Read More
For years, marketers wondered how their products or services would play in Peoria. Now, is Portland becoming that marketing hotspot for the digital generation? Google thinks so, choosing the Rose… Read More
Microsoft today rolled out a new version of its Streetside feature for Bing Maps that is getting some credit for at least taking a different approach than Google’s Street View.… Read More
Sparkbuy founder Dan Shapiro doesn’t like talking to people on airplanes. But on a trip between Silicon Valley and Seattle late last year, the entrepreneur started a conversation with the… Read More
Well, that sure was quick. Sparkbuy, the Seattle upstart led by entrepreneur Dan Shapiro, announced today that it has been acquired by Google in a deal of undisclosed size. The news… Read More
Microsoft Bing is rolling out a new wave of Facebook integration across its search results starting today, tapping data from the widely used social network to show searchers which sites,… Read More
A report out of China suggests that Microsoft is in talks with the country’s leading search engine, Baidu, for a partnership intended to strengthen the Redmond company’s position in the… Read More
Google is still the undisputed king of the U.S. search market, but the latest numbers from comScore Networks show the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo closing the gap by 0.7… Read More
InfoSpace has had more lives than a cat. But the Bellevue Internet search company appears to be reinventing itself pretty well. The company today posted net income of $2.1 million,… Read More
Microsoft’s partnership with Yahoo in Internet search and advertising has hit a bump, with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz saying on the company’s earnings call yesterday afternoon that “technical limitations” Microsoft’s… Read More
Microsoft Bing and Yahoo both posted gains in the U.S. search market in March, lifting their combined market share to more than 30 percent, according to the latest numbers from… Read More
Steve Hooper, one of the founding members of Ignition Partners and the former CEO of AT&T Wireless, has joined the board of InfoSpace. It is a little unusual to see… Read More
Microsoft is back in the middle of an antitrust case in Europe, but this time it’s the one with the complaint. The Redmond company says it’s filing an antitrust complaint… Read More
[Update: Facebook: Mystery web search box was the result of someone ‘targeting the browser’] A report this afternoon says Facebook is testing a web search box next to its existing… Read More
Some encouraging news for Microsoft today in its uphill climb against Google. The combination of Microsoft Bing and the Bing-powered Yahoo search engine rose to 28.48 percent market share in… Read More
Ignition Partners, the Bellevue venture capital firm, continues to plow cash into Bay Area startup companies. The latest to benefit is Topsy, a San Francisco real time search engine that… Read More
Is this the ultimate product placement? Microsoft is expanding its relationship with Rovio, the developers of the hit mobile game “Angry Birds,” to boost its Bing search engine. Under the… Read More
