The OpenNet Initiative has found that Microsoft Bing censors searches related to gay and lesbian topics in a number of Middle Eastern countries. (more…)
Recent ‘search’ News Stories
Microsoft Bing Censors Gay Searches In Middle East
Friday, 12th March 2010Tags: bing, censorship, gay, microsoft, middle-east, search
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Google Testing TV Search
Thursday, 11th March 2010The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google is testing a new TV search service in conjunction with Dish Network. (more…)
Tags: google, search, tv, video
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Introducing The Yahoo! And Microsoft Search Alliance
Monday, 22nd February 2010Yahoo! and Microsoft, who have been in talks regarding a search alliance for some time now, have recently received regulatory clearance for the same. (more…)
Tags: adcenter, bing, microsoft, pay-per-click, ppc, search, search-engine-marketing, yahoo
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Will Apple Put Bing On iPhone?
Friday, 29th January 2010With the recent release of Google’s smartphone, the Nexus One, their relationship with Apple seems to be changing. The competition that the Nexus One provides to the iPhone is causing some friction between the two companies.As a result, Apple might sever ties with Google and find a new provider for search on the iPhone. (more…)
Tags: apple, bing, iphone, mobile, mobile-search
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Microsoft Could Buy Ask.com
Wednesday, 4th November 2009How far will Microsoft go, in their bid to increase the market share of their search engine Bing?
The latest rumour making the rounds is that Microsoft may buy Ask.com, which has been up for sale for a long time now. Barry Diller, the Chairman of InterActive Corp, the parent company of Ask.com, has said that the search market is challenging, and he would be quite willing to part with his search engine (In exchange, for appropriate remuneration, of course.) (more…)
Tags: ask.com, mergers-and-acquisitions, microsoft, search
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Bing Announces New Partnernship With Facebook
Friday, 23rd October 2009Just about 24 hours after announcing their search partnership deal with Twitter, Bing has gone ahead and finalised a similar deal with Facebook, according to reports from the Telegraph. (more…)
Tags: bing, facebook, microsoft
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Sources Of Local Business Information
Monday, 19th October 2009The results of the Annual Local Search Study conducted by TMP Directional Marketing and comScore have been released. Additionally comScore has also conducted a comparative study of media trends and consumer behavior regarding local search over the last 3 years. (more…)
Tags: local-search, mobile, mobile-local-search, mobile-search
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Google Killing Directory Assistance Services
Wednesday, 16th September 2009For the last several months now, Google has been displaying a 10-pack of local business listings along with regular search results for most queries that include a location element in them. This has definitely affected the amount of traffic reaching local directories negatively. (more…)
Tags: directory, google, google maps, local-search, universal-search
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100 Billion Searches A Month And Still None The Wiser
Thursday, 3rd September 2009A study of the global search market undertaken by comScore recently found that over 113 billion searches were carried out online in July 2009. (more…)
Tags: baidu, bing, google, live-search, microsoft, search, yahoo
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