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Facebook & Bing Update Relationship

15th February 2010

Microsoft and Facebook have worked together for a while now, and they have now decided to expand the scope of their working relationship. More »

How Social Is Google Social Search?

1st February 2010

Google has now released Social Search in beta for all users. While this could mark the start of an exciting new era in organic search engine optimisation, there is one severe limitation to this feature. More »

Taptu Brings Realtime Search To Mobile

16th November 2009

With the growing popularity of realtime search, it was only a matter of time before it became available on the mobile Web. Taptu has managed to beat Google and Microsoft to become the first provider of realtime search on mobile. More »

Yahoo! Experiments With Real Time Search

9th November 2009

With both Microsoft and then Google announcing individual deals that give them access to real time information on Twitter, Yahoo! cannot afford to be left behind in the race. More »

Bing First To Search Live Twitter Streams

22nd October 2009

At the recently held Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Qi Lu, the President of Microsoft’s Online Services Group, spoke to Tim Reilly of TechCrunch, about the new facilities soon to be launched on their new search engine Bing. More »

Yahoo! Launches New Social Profiles

20th October 2008

For almost a year now, Yahoo! has been talking about their new ‘Yahoo! Open Strategy‘. They have finally begun to roll out user profiles, which form the backbone of the social part of their open strategy. More »

Social Search Launches On Microsoft Live

9th June 2008

Microsoft has just launched a new service called Search Together, which will be a free service allowing groups of people to work on Web searches in conjunction with each other. More »

Googling With A Little Help From My Friends

6th February 2008

Google is toying with the idea of social search. Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of search products and user experience first hinted about this in August 2007. This week they have gone and launched a Social Graph API to solidify the possibility that Google might consider social search seriously. More »

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