Thursday - July 2, 2009
Microsoft's recently released Bing search engine has begun adding real-time Twitter updates from celebrities to its results. So far, it has indexed the Twitter accounts of a few thousand people, Bing director Whitney Burk told TechNewsWorld. Search results are tied directly to online ads. While adding real-time tweets may get more people to use Bing, it's not yet clear whether that will help Microsoft get more ads. That will depend on Bing's growth, notes analyst Greg Sterling.
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Friday - June 19, 2009
Google has stepped up its efforts to fight Internet pornography in China, following Beijing's move on Friday to block some Chinese-language results delivered by its search engine. "We are undertaking a thorough review of our service and taking all necessary steps to fix any problem with our results," said Google spokesperson Scott Rubin.
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Monday - June 15, 2009
Hunch, a new Web service open to the public Monday, is meant to help people make decisions on hundreds of topics -- such as what kind of camera to buy or where to go on vacation. Its founders say they expect it to get better and better at pairing users with highly accurate custom answers on thousands of topics, many of them user-contributed.
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Friday - June 12, 2009
Although it's struggling against both giant rivals like Google and smaller ones like Microsoft's new search venture Bing, Yahoo is handing over the source code for its version of Hadoop to the community. Hadoop, a top-level Apache project, is an open source distributed file system and parallel execution environment that lets its users process massive amounts of data.
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Monday - June 1, 2009
Like many others, I was salivating at the thought of getting my hands on a new, faster search engine, and so I was impatiently waiting for Wednesday when Microsoft was scheduled to unleash Bing on the world. When it made Bing available on Monday instead, I leaped on the application and began running searches on the Web with little cries of joy.
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Monday - June 1, 2009
Last week, Microsoft announced its new search push at Google -- and unlike Live Search, which was a joke, Bing looks to have the right stuff. The question is, can Microsoft get people to move? Palm initially looked as though it was going to get iPhone users to move, but that hope started to sputter last week.
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Thursday - May 21, 2009
In about two weeks, Microsoft is expected to launch Kumo, its sort of old, sort of new search engine. Microsoft regards Kumo as its Google killer, according to tech analyst Rob Enderle, and the software company is banking heavily on it despite deep internal divisions over the project.
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Wednesday - May 20, 2009
It's difficult to imagine Google -- the market maker and breaker of all things online-search related -- ever being dislodged from its perch as king of the hill. If there were a company that could do so, it would most likely be another market maker -- say, Microsoft.
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Monday - May 18, 2009
For the past few weeks, the arrival of the new search engine Wolfram|Alpha was hyped as the next stage of search engine technology -- a "Google-killer," a new way to ask the Internet a direct question. So naturally, a few enterprising technology writers and bloggers wanted answers to some very specific queries when the Web site finally went live over the weekend.
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Saturday - May 16, 2009
When a free Web service called "Wolfram|Alpha" launches, the general public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders buzzing because of its oracle-like ability to spit out answers and make calculations. Which has a bigger gross domestic product, Spain or Canada? What was New York City's population in 1900? When did the sun rise in Los Angeles on Nov. 15, 1973?
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Wednesday - May 13, 2009
Google launched on Tuesday a series of new search features that let users integrate options for displaying and analyzing their search results beyond the traditional listing of keyword hits ranked by assumed relevance. The new services are part of a platform of additional features Google is developing and will make live in the future, though it offered no set timetable.
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