Tagged: Search Engines & News
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Facebook investing efforts in a better search engine News
30.03.2012 Social network Facebook is working on overhauling its existing search system with a newer, improved search engine to better navigate the volume of data on its site. -
Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings News
19.08.2011 Google says it wants its Googlers to thrive and live up to their innovation potential by placing them in greener buildings that draw upon nature, clean air and daylight. The... -
MillionOpinion.com – 100,000 hits in first seven days News
11.05.2011 A new website being described by its founder as “the world’s first social search engine”, Millionopinion.com, has received 100,000 hits in its first seven days.Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media -
A New Era in Marketing News
14.12.2010 Time for Irish businesses to capitalise on the new trend - Helen Curtin, communications director, Clip Gurus. -
Yahoo! and Microsoft begin testing search alliance News
21.07.2010 Following last year’s announcement to work together on search and advertising, Yahoo! has begun to integrate Bing search results in its listings – both paid and algorithmic.Categories: Search Engines, Internet -
Google’s Matt Cutts: search gets faster, local and more secure News
04.06.2010 Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team and the webmaster who applies Google’s Quality Guidelines, told Siliconrepublic.com that the search world is about to get a lot more... -
Google Search gets big makeover News
06.05.2010 Aside from a new colour scheme and sharper, cleaner look, Google has significantly changed the way users navigate its search results by adding more images into results as well...Categories: Digital Life, Internet -
Urgent need for new online metrics News
11.03.2010 Top-right-oriented-graph-itis is a particularly nasty condition, prevalent amongst many busy middle and senior managers; it gives them symptoms of a warm and fuzzy feeling that...Categories: New Media -
Google gained market share in China in past six months News
13.01.2010 Despite its threat to pull out of the Chinese market over an alleged cyber attack on its servers, internet giant Google has been closing the gap on the largest search engine in... -
Bing’s US market share stabilises, Yahoo! plummets News
02.11.2009 Microsoft’s search engine Bing recovered market share slightly in the US in October, according to web analytics firm StatCounter, but Yahoo! continued to lose market share. -
Bing’s blitzkrieg on search market is losing momentum News
01.09.2009 Microsoft Bing’s onslaught into the search business is beginning to slow, growing by by just 0.23pc in August to 9.64pc, according to StatCounter.Categories: Comms -
New media gong for Simpson News
29.06.2009 The launch of Statcounter’s Global Stats service, which resulted in over 100,000 hits from 100 countries in two weeks, earned Simpson Financial & Technology PR the New Media... -
Get ready for the battle of the search engines News
04.06.2009 Google has unveiled a plan to square up against upstart search engine Wolfram Alpha and will no doubt then turn its attention to win a ‘decisive’ battle against Microsoft’s new...Categories: New Media -
Google glitch: a wake-up call? News
02.02.2009 For many people, the Google homepage is the first port of call and window to the wider world of the internet. In fact, for many, Google IS the internet, so when a misplaced ‘/’...Categories: Digital Life -
A Google-killer in the shape of a semantic Web 3.0 search engine? News
08.09.2008 A firm that had its origins in Microsoft’s spell check software in the Eighties is the secret sauce behind a new Web 3.0 semantic search engine that could out-search Google in...Categories: Comms -
Yahoo! throws marbles to cause Google to slip News
10.07.2008 Fresh from a revived assault on its board through a better understanding between investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft, embattled Yahoo! has switched its attention to another front,...Categories: Business -
EBay and Russian sites top MSN and Yahoo! for search News
09.05.2008 Russian search engine Yandex and internet auction site eBay have more of a share in the European search market than long-standing search engines MSN and Yahoo!, figures from... -
Risky websites to be flagged in Yahoo! Search News
07.05.2008 Websites that may harm a user’s computer just by visiting them will be omitted from Yahoo! search engine rankings, following a partnership between the search company and... -
European search engine project to pass sell-by date? News
24.04.2008 A European ‘Google killer’ search engine project funded to the tune of €93m and backed by the French Government has been labelled a waste of money as the technology will have...Categories: Comms, Government