The San Jose Mercury-News has a long article on Microsoft Bing!’s (or it is Bing’s!?) growth as a search engine a year after its release. Bing! has reached 12.7% of market share, up about four percentage points from its initial market penetration; about half of the subsequent growth appears to have come from Yahoo. The […]
I learned about Startpage in an article on Reuters. Here’s a nugget: So I decided to play around with it for a while.
Microsoft is teaming Bing! up with Wolfram Alpha, according to the BBC. The same story points out that Google is over 70% of market share in the US. I don’t think this is going to help Microsoft conquer Google. Jeffrey reported on Wolfram Alpha when it hit the news a few months ago and I […]
An interesting juxtaposition of opinions this weekend, showing how two persons can look at the same stats and draw almost-opposite conclusions: At the New York Times (link here), Miguel Helft claims that Bing! really doesn’t have far to go to catch Google, now that Microsoft has inked a deal for Bing! to be the engine […]
And, after the hoop-la dies down, things will just settle back down. Story here. My guess, based on entirely on complete and total ignorance: They’re taking market share from Cuil.
Two assessments of Microsoft’s Bing search engine hit the news this morning. The Guardian reports that a small study of 25 computer users showed that Bing’s search results were not that great, but that Bing users were more likely to look at some of the advertisements. The full story is here. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft’s […]
It’s almost impossible to look at any news site without seeing another puff piece for Microsoft’s newest attempt to become a player in internet search, Bing, which, according to the link, is coming soon. I unhesitatingly predict that it will be the Cuil of 2009. Remember Cuil?