It has been a long time coming, but Yahoo is now reporting that their search back end in the US and Canada for web, image, and video searches on mobile and desktop platforms has been fully moved over to Microsoft technologies. Shashi Seth of Yahoo today proudly proclaimed that “the transition of organic search between Yahoo! [...]

A story of numbers over at VentureBeat might just be more telling than we’d all once thought.  Twitter Search activity, it seems, is up 33% since April.  That takes the function to a solid 800 million queries per day. Now, let’s not get crazy.  Twitter isn’t going to overtake Google, or even Facebook search, anytime soon. [...]

Microsoft has been using MSNBot to crawl websites for its search engine. Despite changing their search engine to Live Search and then to Bing, Microsoft did not rename the bot that crawls the web to collate information. In a blog post, the Bing team announced that 1st October onwards, the crawler will be renamed to Bingbot. Though [...]

Microsoft has been using MSNBot to crawl websites for its search engine. Despite changing their search engine to Live Search and then to Bing, Microsoft did not rename the bot that crawls the web to collate information. In a blog post, the Bing team announced that 1st October onwards, the crawler will be renamed to Bingbot. Though [...]

Back in May, we wrote about Google providing encrypted search for all users.  Until now, if you wanted to use the encrypted search, you just added an https:// to the Google.com domain and away you went. According to an article on Read Write Web, Google has diversified things somewhat, in answer to some problems that happened [...]

There were a lot of questions when Facebook first started talking about the Open Graph.  Today, those questions were just answered. All Facebook has an article confirming the suspicions of many: Facebook has just entered the search market game.  Facebook has confirmed to the site that the Open Graph is now linking OG-enabled pages into Facebook [...]

Microsoft updated the Bing iPhone app yesterday and today its announced a new section called Bing Entertainment for bing.com I had recently listed out a few reasons why Bing is a good search engine alternative, now there are some more. Bing Entertainment introduces categories for music, videos and games. Music: Dedicated pages for artists with their bio and [...]

Growing market share that comScore questions, being added as an option in Safari, things look good for Bing. And they should. You must’ve heard the phrase “Imitation is the best for of flattery” with regards to Google’s little stunt to set a default search background for everyone. It didn’t go as Google expected but it was [...]

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In the spirit of keeping you and your data as safe as possible, Google is introducing an encrypted version of its search engine today. This is in line with our report last week that such a product was soon to be released. According to the Google announcement: When you search on https://www.google.com, an encrypted connection is created between your browser and Google. This [...]