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Google Dominated U.S. Searches in January By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published February 10, 2012 The tech giant increased its share of the American search market to 66.2 percent. Tags: Bing, Yahoo, search, Google Microsoft Bing Search Queries Overtake Yahoo for the First Time in December By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published January 12, 2012 Google continues to dominate the search market with more than 65 percent of all queries. Tags: Yahoo, Google, Bing, search Twitter Unhappy About Google's Social Search Changes By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published January 11, 2012 The micro-blogging service calls the new "Search plus your world" feature "bad for people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users." Tags: Twitter, search, Google Google Revamps Search Formula to Include More Personal Information By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published January 10, 2012 The search giant is integrating Google+ and Picasa information into search results. Tags: Google +, search, Google, Picasa Chromed: Google Demotes Itself in Its Own Searches By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published January 04, 2012 After reports surfaced of a paid link campaign for Chrome, Google decided to lower the page ranking for its own browser for 60 days. Tags: Google Chrome, search Google Breaks Its Own Rules in Sponsored Post Campaign By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published January 03, 2012 Will Google penalize Chrome for violating its guidelines about paying for links to improve search rankings? Tags: search, Google Chrome Hitwise: "Facebook" Was 4 of Top 10 Search Queries in 2011 By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published December 23, 2011 All of the search terms on the list were from users looking for a particular website. Tags: Facebook, search Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published December 23, 2011 Sources say Google is tripling its payments to Mozilla. Tags: search, Mozilla Firefox, Google Google Zeitgeist 2011 Details Top Searches By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published December 15, 2011 Three Apple related terms and Google+ made the top ten. Tags: Google, Apple, search Mozilla, Microsoft Join Forces for 'Firefox With Bing'' By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published October 27, 2011 A new version of the open source browser features Bing search integration. Tags: search Google Tweaks Advanced Search: Change Irks Some By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published October 25, 2011 You can no longer use the + sign to include a specific term in a search. Tags: Google, search Is Yahoo Up for Sale? By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published September 26, 2011 Reports are circulating that Yahoo is considering offers to buy out the number two search firm. Tags: search, Yahoo, Microsoft With Bartz Gone - Whither Bing? By Stuart Johnston | Article Published September 07, 2011 Does this week's shakeup leave an opening for Microsoft to capitalize on its search and advertising deal with troubled Yahoo? Tags: search, Bartz, Yahoo, Microsoft Bing Beats Google on Search Effectiveness By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published August 12, 2011 A study finds that Bing users are more likely to click on links in search results than Google users. Tags: search Baidu Chooses Bing for English Search By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published July 05, 2011 In a move aimed at further penetrating the largest search market in the world, Microsoft teams with the Chinese search titan to provide Bing for English searches. Tags: Baidu.com, search, Bing, Microsoft MasterObjects Sues Microsoft Over 'Instant Search' By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published May 20, 2011 A small search developer claims it originated 'instant search' features in your favorite search engine, and wants the big players to pay up Tags: Microsoft, MasterObjects, lawsuits, patents, search Google Q1 Revenues: Double Digit Growth By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published April 15, 2011 Mobile searches are up more than 500 percent in the last two years. Tags: Google, Google Apps, search, Larry Page DOJ: Google Allowed to Buy Fare Search Firm By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published April 11, 2011 After months' of negotiations, the federal government says it will clear Google's purchase of ITA Software, but only if they mind their P's and Q's. Tags: Google, search, antitrust, DOJ, Microsoft Will Google be Lawyered to Death? By Mike Elgan | Article Published April 06, 2011 The sheer level of litigation aimed Googles way is breathtaking. Tags: search, lawsuits, Microsoft, European Union, Google Microsoft Complains About Google To European Union By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published April 01, 2011 Microsoft files a formal complaint with the European Unions antitrust regulators over anticompetitive practices that it claims hurt competitors. Tags: Microsoft, Google, European Union, search, antitrust Google-Microsoft Search Spat Intensifies By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published February 03, 2011 Google's claim that Microsoft's Bing search engine is merely aping its own results is prompting a heated argument. Tags: query, Google, search engine, search, Microsoft Bing-Sponsored Search Event Also Features Google By David Needle | Article Published January 26, 2011 BigThink to host "Beyond the Search Box" event next week. Tags: Blekko, Google, Bing, search, data management Yahoo Squeaks Past Estimates; Announces More Layoffs By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 25, 2011 The wobbling Internet search and advertising company managed to squeeze past analysts' estimates in the fourth quarter. Tags: Google, earnings, search, advertising, Yahoo search Schmidt out as Google CEO, Q4 Profit Soars By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published January 20, 2011 Search giant reports solid growth in revenues and profits, while announcing a major shake-up of its top executives, with co-founder Larry Page to replace Eric Schmidt as CEO. Tags: advertising, Google, display ads, search, earnings Bing Updates Features for Mobile Users By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published December 16, 2010 Microsoft has begun rolling out new and updated features for its Bing search technologies, kicking it all off with a "search summit" in San Francisco. Tags: search, mobile, Microsoft, iPhone, Bing EU Opens Antitrust Probe Into Google Search By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published December 01, 2010 European antitrust authorities announce a formal inquiry into allegations from Google's competitors that the search giant used its market clout to undermine competition. Tags: antitrust, Google, search, DOJ, EU Google Adds Images to Instant Search By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published November 09, 2010 Leading Web search provider updates its Instant search feature to provide preview images of websites as they turn up in search results. Tags: mobile, search, Google, images, search engine Google Moves Top Exec Mayer to Focus on Location By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published October 13, 2010 By shifting one of its leading lights and longest-serving executives to head the geo/local division, Google signals that it's getting serious about location-based services and ads. Tags: Google, Marissa Mayer, location-based services, geolocation, search Yahoo Updates Search Engine With 'Immersive' Features By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published October 07, 2010 Web portal Yahoo begins expanding search features for entertainment and news content in new "immersive search" offering. Tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, search AOL Renews Search Partnership With Google By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published September 02, 2010 Online pioneer continues turnaround strategy, promising marketers that a five-year renewal of Google agreement will deliver new search tools and expand into mobile. Tags: YouTube, search, mobile, AOL, Google Trust in Gov't Rises, Falls With Quality of Website By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published August 25, 2010 New survey from ForeSee Results seeks to quantify success of administration's e-government initiative, finding a strong correlation between the transparency of a website and visitors' satisfaction with it, an increasingly critical driver of overall trust in government. Tags: government IT, search, government agency, ACSI, open government U.S. e-Government Satisfaction Slides: Survey By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published July 28, 2010 In the latest ACSI survey from ForeSee Results, e-government sites slide in citizen satisfaction, though the scores are uneven across different categories. Tags: government market, e-government, search, ACSI, government IT Ask Tries Crowd Sourcing for Search 'Answers' By David Needle | Article Published July 28, 2010 Is this the future of search? New service lets users find answers to search queries from a community of users at the Ask.com site. Tags: crowdsourcing, Google, search engine, search, Ask.com Google Q2 Profit Misses Wall Street Expectations By David Needle | Article Published July 15, 2010 Revenues and profits are way up for the second quarter over the search giant's results from a year ago, but Google's balance sheet leaves analysts wanting more. Tags: Google, earnings, search, AdSense, advertising China Gives Google Green Light for Search Engine By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published July 09, 2010 Long standoff appears to end with Chinese government renewing Google's license to operate its search engine, funneling traffic to Hong Kong to skirt content filters. Tags: search, search engine, Google Apps, China, Google Google Unconcerned with Facebook, Apple By - Reuters | Article Published July 09, 2010 At an industry gathering, Google executives declined to confirm media reports that Google is developing a new service called Google Me to compete with Facebook, which has grown to nearly 500 million users in its six-year history. Tags: Google, Facebook, Apple, search, mobile Google Gives Ground in Standoff With China By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published June 29, 2010 Search giant announces new approach to China censorship standoff after negotiations with the government as it hopes to retain its commercial operating license. Tags: China, privacy, search, Google, censorship Did Google's Pac-Man Celebration Gobble Productivity? By David Needle | Article Published May 25, 2010 RescueTime says the embedded game at Google's search site diverted some 4.82 million work hours. Google called the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man celebration a success. Tags: Google, IT manager, gaming, productivity, search Google Unveils Web TV By - Reuters | Article Published May 21, 2010 In a risky move that many vendors have so far failed at, Google announces an ambitious plan to merge the Internet with television. Tags: Google, search engine, Google TV, Web, search Business Intelligence Software Coming Up Short? By David Needle | Article Published April 29, 2010 Business intelligence software tools provide for great reporting, but are difficult to use and don't handle more free-form information requests well, claims new study. Tags: business intelligence, business analytics, business intelligence software, BI software, search Is Google About to be Lawyered to Death? By Mike Elgan | Article Published April 21, 2010 It is possible that a wave of litigation will highlight Google's incredible power to affect the success or failure of not only competitors, but all companies, organizations and people. Tags: search engines, search, Microsoft, Google, Google Apps What's Next in the Google/China Struggle? By David Needle | Article Published March 24, 2010 Analysts expect China to block Google's redirect of the mainland search engine to Hong Kong, so where does that leave the search giant in terms of Android and its other business interests? Tags: censorship, Google, firewall, Android, search China Condemns Google's Censorship Gambit By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published March 23, 2010 Chinese official sounds off about Google's decision to offer an unfiltered version of the Web to the mainland in state media, while a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry looks to tamp down diplomatic concerns. Tags: Google, Internet, China, censorship, search Google to Offer Unfiltered Web in China With Hong Kong Redirect By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published March 22, 2010 Google announces its solution to the China standoff with plans to redirect traffic from Google.cn to Hong Kong version of the search engine to deliver unfiltered Web content. Tags: search, China, censorship, security, Google Bing Gains While Google Slips in February: Nielsen By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published March 16, 2010 The Nielsen Company's latest search numbers show Bing's market share still growing, but is Microsoft finally starting to take a bite out of Google's share of the pie? Tags: Microsoft, Google, Bing, Yahoo, search Microsoft Claims Google Act Raise Antitrust Concerns By - Reuters | Article Published March 02, 2010 Microsoft launches a broadside against a company with competing interests in software applications, mobile, search and e-mail. Tags: Microsoft, search, anticompetitive, antitrust, Google Xerox Sues Yahoo, Google, Over Search Technology By - Reuters | Article Published February 24, 2010 The Xerox lawsuit accuses Google and Yahoo of infringing the document management company's patents related to Web search. Tags: Google, lawsuit, Yahoo search, Xerox, search Google: Profit Up, Investors Not Happy By - Reuters | Article Published January 22, 2010 The search giant shrugged off the recession last year, but Google's fourth-quarter report did not satisfy investors' desire for stronger growth. Tags: handheld, Google, search, google stock Google CEO Says Company Still Supports iPhone By David Needle | Article Published January 21, 2010 Bing to iPhone? Not so fast. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt addresses the company's relationship with Apple, the China controversy and other matters. Tags: Apple, Bing, search, Google, iPhone Will Bing Replace Google on iPhones? By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published January 20, 2010 Is an Apple-Microsoft alliance brewing? Magazine says the two companies have been talking. Tags: Google, Microsoft, iPhone, search, Apple Bing Reaches New High at Yahoo's Expense By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published January 15, 2010 More evidence that Microsoft's renewed success in search is coming at the cost of Yahoo, while Google remains dominant. Tags: comScore, search, Bing, Google, Yahoo Google Search Appliance Gets Real-Time With Tweets By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published December 11, 2009 Search giant turns on real-time search feature for enterprise and consumer searches. Tags: Twitter, enterprise search, search, Enterprise, Google Facebook's New Privacy Rules Upset Users By - Reuters | Article Published December 10, 2009 It turns out that users don't like seeing their privacy levels eroded. Tags: Facebook, search, privacy, security, network What's Wrong With Google Dictionary? By Mike Elgan | Article Published December 09, 2009 Google Dictionary represents a colossal dumbing down of the English Language. Tags: search, international, software, media, Google Google Now Offers Real-Time Results By - Reuters | Article Published December 08, 2009 Google results will be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products. Tags: voice, Facebook, Google, search, Microsoft The Greatest Geek Gadget Guide Ever By Mike Elgan | Article Published December 02, 2009 To please the true gadget lover, the geeky gift must be unnecessary, uncommon and personally challenging. Extra points if its Japanese. Tags: Gadgets, search, IT, security, technology Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus Reaches Milestone By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published November 30, 2009 Microsoft's second-largest facility in the U.S. reaches the ten-year point -- what's its role in the Microsoft plan? Tags: search, human resources, wireless, Microsoft Google Claims Chrome Boots PC in 7 Seconds By - Reuters | Article Published November 20, 2009 Sending a shot across the bow of Apple and Microsoft, Google says its new Chrome OS will turn on a PC as fast as a TV. Tags: search, operating system, chips, Google, Microsoft Who Killed Black Friday? By Mike Elgan | Article Published November 11, 2009 Sure, Black Friday is still a great day for deal, but the Internet has done away with the traditional one day only Black Friday concept. Tags: apps, search, Black Friday, Google, retail GPL Worries Shuts Down Windows 7 Tool By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published November 11, 2009 The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool is no longer available on the Microsoft Store site due to concerns over possible GPL violations. Tags: Linux, search, DVD, review, Microsoft KDE Plasma Netbook GUI: Admitting Limitations By Bruce Byfield | Article Published November 03, 2009 KDE's Plasma Netbook interface reflects its developers' struggles, but the main KDE desktop could learn from it. Tags: Linux desktop, KDE, desktop, search, widgets Google Debuts Music Search By - Reuters | Article Published October 29, 2009 The search giant partnered with online music services to enable users to sample and purchase songs. Tags: search, Facebook, network, Warner Music, Google Complete and Utter (Linux Desktop) Apps By Bruce Byfield | Article Published October 27, 2009 Free and open source software (FOSS) developers often attempt to write software that is the ultimate in its category. Tags: software, search, Linux desktop, Linux, open source Google Pushes Apps Internationally By - Reuters | Article Published October 19, 2009 Google's new campaign targets a global audience for its online productivity apps. Tags: Google, Enterprise, Microsoft, services, search Google to Open Online E-Book Store By - Reuters | Article Published October 15, 2009 Google expects to have approximately a half million e-books available by early in 2010. Tags: Google, search, Copyright, Amazon, smartphones Twitter in Search Engine Negotations By - Reuters | Article Published October 09, 2009 Twitter is negotiating with Microsoft and Google to license its tweetstream to the companies' search engines. Tags: Microsoft, search, Twitter, services, Google Smartphones: MSFT vs. Google vs. Palm By - Reuters | Article Published October 07, 2009 Each of these three major players are eyeing Apple's success with the iPhone. Tags: Verizon, wireless, Google, Microsoft, search MSFT: More Search Buys Unlikely By - Reuters | Article Published October 05, 2009 Having partnered wtih Yahoo, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer says that should do it for now. Tags: search, Microsoft, Google, Windows, Yahoo IBM Challenges Google's Webmail Dominance By - Reuters | Article Published October 02, 2009 Seeking to capitlize on Google's recent outages, IBM will start selling its LotusLive iNotes. The lightweight email service will cost $36 per user per year, about 25 percent less than what Google charges for a more robust product. Tags: Microsoft, Lotus Notes, IBM, search, Google Google Closes Dev Site, Open Sourcers Upset By Michelle Megna | Article Published September 29, 2009 Google slapped the developer with a cease-and-desist order because it claimed he was modifying and distributing its applications. Tags: Microsoft, Google, open source, services, search How Will Users React to GNOME 3.0? By Bruce Byfield | Article Published September 29, 2009 With KDE for comparison, GNOME now faces a serious challenge. Tags: Linux desktop, desktop, search, KDE, Gnome Hot iPhone, Android Trend: Augmented Reality By Michelle Megna | Article Published September 18, 2009 Overlaying information on real-world views displayed on a smartphone camera lens is expected to become highly popular. Tags: video, iPhone, smartphones, search, e-Mail Understanding Different Twitter Account Types By David Strom | Article Published September 17, 2009 Knowing the various Twitter accounts will help you reach a larger audience. Tags: media, Twitter, blogs, search, corporate Developers Get 'Donut' for Google Android By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published September 17, 2009 Google has unveiled the new SDK for version 1.6 of its Android mobile OS, a release codenamed "Donut." Tags: search, wireless, carriers, Android, Google Google Tweaks Browser, Gets Aggressive By - Reuters | Article Published September 16, 2009 But Google's Internet browser has a meager 2.8 percent share one year after launch. 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