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Bing Introduces Adaptive Search For More Personalization

Bing Introduces Adaptive Search For More Personalization

Bing has announced a new change to their search algorithm, namely Adaptive Search.  This new feature is an attempt to give more relevant results by trying to figure out the context of your search query based on your previous search history. What Exactly Is Adaptive Search? One of the biggest problems for search engines is ambiguity in search […]

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Google Holds Ground Against Bing Yahoo

Google Holds Ground Against Bing Yahoo

In the past few months we’ve reported on the gradual, but consistent, headway Bing/Yahoo has been making against Google.  However, Google has, for the past couple of months now been able to hold their ground.  Bing continues to see gains according to the most recent report from Comscore.com. Big Gains for Bing: In the past […]

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Google Tests Sticky Search Bar and Infinite Scrolling

Google Tests Sticky Search Bar and Infinite Scrolling

Google has started testing the idea of having the search bar at the top of the search results remaining at the top of the page regardless of how far down the page you scroll.  A handy feature for those who don’t want to scroll up from the bottom of the page, but also a necessary […]

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Yahoo To Suspend Yahoo Site Explorer

Yahoo To Suspend Yahoo Site Explorer

Yahoo has announced that they will be shutting down Yahoo Site Explorer.  They have not given an official date, yet, but will probably be around the end of this year or the first part of next year. Some of the features of Yahoo Site Explorer and some new ones have been and will be developed […]

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What Aren’t You Seeing On The Internet?

What Aren’t You Seeing On The Internet?

Personalization has been the word of the day for a while now.  But is personalization really good or does it put us safely in a cocoon of information preventing us from seeing anything outside of our previous life experience and expanding our understanding? I recently came across an ad-site for a relatively new search engine, […]

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Google Launches Voice Search

Google Launches Voice Search

First Google started completing our searches for us so we didn’t have to type the whole phrase.  Now, you don’t have to type at all.  Just click and speak. To use voice search just go to Google, click the microphone icon in the bar, and speak.  Pretty simple. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1c0w5QiryM Maybe it’s just that I’m really, […]

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Do You Want To Kill Google?

Do You Want To Kill Google?

Every now and again somebody announces that they are creating the best search engine ever.  A bunch of SEO types go check it out and, unless it totally stinks, the new comer tends to get the title “Google Killer”.  There’s been another new announcement which I’ll mention in moment, but I think the real question […]

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Bing to Dethrone Google?

Bing to Dethrone Google?

Bing is slowly, but surely chipping away at Google’s domination of the search market.  In fact, if the current trends continue, Bing will overtake Google in less than 1 year! According to Experian’s Hitwise.com, Bing saw a 5% increase in their search market share last month, breaching 30% of the market for the first time, […]

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