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• Article | 5/02/2011 Google considers Bing a serious threat

  Google very publicly called out Microsoft's Bing search engine -- claiming that it copies its search results from Google. The initial charge has been ...
• Article | 21/01/2011 Google management shuffle: Right move, wrong guy?

  Today's announcement that Google co-founder Larry Page would replace Eric Schmidt as the company's CEO was a surprise, but maybe it shouldn't have bee...
• Article | 1/11/2010 Funny Google auto-suggestions

  If you're ever bored, you can while away the hours by looking at Google's auto-suggestions. Simply type a word or two -- or even a letter -- in the se...
• Article | 27/08/2010 Google's Realtime Search update does what Twitter won't

  Searching for status updates is not Twitter's forte, so leave it to Google to make its own Realtime Search engine more powerful instead.
• Article | 15/04/2010 SEO strategies for marketers, new search trends

  As the online search industry matures, SEO (search engine optimisation) has become much more than a keyword targeting tactic: it has evolved into opti...
• Article | 23/03/2010 Google's China decision ignores conventional wisdom

  Google's decision to stop censoring search engine results in China, announced in a blog posting Monday, flies in the face of common wisdom when it com...
• Article | 11/03/2010 Bing gains again -- should Google worry?

  Microsoft's Bing search engine may still be a bit player in the lucrative online search business dominated by Google, but it's slowly and steadily gai...
• Article | 12/11/2009 Bing now a serious challenger to Google

  Given undistinguished history of Microsoft's late and unlamented Live Search engine, the predecessor to Bing, it's easy to dismiss Redmond as a haples...
• Article | 12/08/2009 Google Caffeine FAQ: your questions answered

  Google has unveiled Caffeine, a "next-generation architecture" for its Web search platform. The retooled search engine is said to be faster, more accu...
• Article | 30/07/2009 Yahoo Search: RIP

  Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo who ...
• Article | 9/07/2009 Searching where Google can't

  We read a lot about the delivery, and popularity, of SMS services such as market prices, health advice and job alerts in developing countries, informa...
• Article | 2/07/2009 Five slick search engines you should know about

  With Microsoft's recent addition of Bing to the search landscape, the spotlight is again shining on who has the best engine for finding anything and e...
• Article | 18/06/2009 Bing makes gains, but is Google actually suffering?

  Microsoft is gaining new ground with its freshly rebranded Bing search engine, some recently released data suggests. Bing, the research finds, grew 0....
• Article | 1/06/2009 Microsoft Bing goes live: So what?

  Now that its available, my first experiences with Microsoft Bing lead me to a simple, inescapable conclusion, "So what?" I had imagined that something...
• Article | 29/05/2009 Hands on with Microsoft Bing

  At last, Bing has arrived. I tested a preview release of Microsoft's new search/decision engine, previously called Kumo, to see how well it compares. ...