Tag: Search

Foursquare Gets Business Hours, Becomes An Alternative to Google
Foursquare announced today that it has added business hours to its apps for merchants who provide them. This includes specific times like happy hour, kitchen hours and free admissi...
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Bing Gains US Market Share, But So Does Google
It's always been an uphill battle for Bing, trying to gain search market share, but it doesn't help when search giant Google's market share grows too. And for as much fuss that has...
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Google On How It Censors Content (Ahead Of World Day Against Cyber-Censorship)
World Day Against Cyber-Censorship is this coming Monday - March 12. Here's the official description for that: World Day Agains...
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German Lawmakers May Be Jeopardizing Search
News aggregation as we know it, and possibly even search as we know it, may be in danger - at least in Germany. German lawmakers are reportedly kicking around new legislation,...
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Google Windows Phone App Gets New Features
Google announced a new update for its Google Search App for Windows 7.5 phones today. The new features are: autocomplete, voice search and "my location". My Location, if you're...
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What Is Bing Doing At SXSW?
As previously reported, Bing's Duane Forrester is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion at SXSW this weekend, called...
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Matt Cutts Won’t Be At SXSW
For the search crowd, the SXSW session to take place on Saturday called "Dear Google & Bing: Help Me Rank Better!"...
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International Women’s Day Celebrated With Google Doodle
Today's Google Doodle swaps out the blue for the purple and replaces the big "G" with the symbol for woman. That's because March 8th is International Women's Day. Evolving over t...
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Google Webmaster Tools Gets New Admin Feature
Google announced the launch of a new Webmaster Tools feature, which lets verified site owners grant limited access to their site's data and settings to other people. You can do...
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Google Expands Encrypted Search Worldwide
Last year, Google announced the launch of encrypted search by default for signed in users. http://www.google.com became https://www.google.com. Now, Google is expanding this thr...
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Bing Search Quality Insights: New Blog Series Sheds Light On Bing’s Inner-Workings
Google recently started a series of blog posts highlighting various points of progress it has made in its efforts to increase search quality. The results have essentially been...
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Facebook Promotes Bing Search Even More
As I (and others) have suggested in numerous articles in the past, the competitive landscape around search and social media could get really interesting...
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Overstock Blaming Google For “Ugly Year”
Overstock is blaming Google for an "ugly year." Remember when Overstock.com was hit with a Google penalty just over a year ago? Well, the company released its fiscal year and Q4 ea...
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Yahoo’s Birthday Is Today
Yahoo turned 17 today. According to Barry Schwartz, the cupcakes pictured below are being given out at Yahoo today...
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How Far Does Your Google Search Query Travel?
How far does your Google search query travel? According to Google,1,500 miles on average. This is a factoid Google Fellow Ben Gomes dropped in an interview with ReadWriteWeb a...
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