In an effort to continuously keep their search engine on the cutting edge, Microsoft is incorporating several new Facebook social cues into its Bing search results. Microsoft is taking full advantage of its partnership with Facebook in order to cut into the search market share of Google. Bing has been incorporating Facebook “likes” into its search results, [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal, users of both Apple’s iPhones and Google’s Android smartphones have their locations regularly transmitted back to Apple and Google, respectively. While tracking services and apps are available to smartphone users, they have to be activated in order for them to work. This finding outlines the fact that smartphone users are [...]
Over the past year Groupon has grown from 200 employees to 6,500, from 3 million subscribers to 70 million, and it has seen it’s company perceived value rise from $1.4 billion to $25 billion. As we mentioned in a blog post from November, Google was rumored to be interested in buying Groupon; however, Groupon rejected [...]
Just when we thought that Bing was poised to make a run at Google’s market share, news comes out that shows Microsoft has been “copying” Google’s results. While Bing’s rise in market share over the past few years has come primarily at Yahoo’s expense, it was thought that this newer, hipper and more advertised search engine [...]
On Thursday Google announced that they were tweaking their algorithm that determines it’s search engine results in order to punish “low quality” websites. It is assumed that this move by Google will hurt “content farms” the most. Reference websites like eHow.com are often criticized for being full of useless content, with the sole purpose of [...]
Google, in the wake of Groupon rejecting its $6 billion dollar offer a couple of months ago, is set to launch “Google Offers”, which will essentially be the same service that Groupon and Living Social provide. I previously reported the rumor that Google was set to buy Groupon in this November article. According to social media news [...]
It’s now October 14, 2010, and we’re nearly a year and a half removed from Bing’s launch date (May of 2009). The much anticipated hype of the 3rd party challenger to Google and Yahoo has proven to be no slouch. In fact, according to Nielsen, Bing’s market share in July 2010 was up to 13.6%, [...]
