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Search Engines

Bidding On Trademarks in Search Advertising Continues to Heat Up

by Jeff Weisbein December 28, 2011

Here’s a hot topic: competitors or scammers bidding on your company’s trademark in search results to be at the top of the results in the sponsored links section. Is this illegal? The answer may surprise you: it’s not.

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I’m Skeptical About the Future of Bing

by Mike Mansell September 21, 2011

After spending to years and billions of dollars to build Bing, Microsoft doesn’t have much to show for it. Which is why I’m skeptical about the future of Bing.

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Could a Microsoft/Baidu Partnership Compete with Google?

by Mike Mansell July 6, 2011

Serving China, a country with four-hundred and fifty million users online, Baidu is, as it stands, a popular search engine primarily focused on the Chinese market. The search engine in itself has been around for quite some time now, but with Google’s move to pull out of China in March of last year the search engine has become what many see as the go-to search engine in China.

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Bing Reaches 14% Marketshare

by Mike Mansell May 12, 2011

In the world of Internet search engines, there has always been this huge perception that Google would always be the largest and dominant search engine on the Internet. After all, we how many times do we hear the term “Bing it”? ”Yahoo it”? ”Jeeves it”? Exactly. Google has not only become a cultural icon, but [...]

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How Google’s Search Cleanup Will Affect You

by Mike Mansell February 28, 2011

As companies, organizations, and entities grow in size they tend to have a much higher visibility in the eye of the general public. Sure, being in the spotlight can ultimately be greatly beneficial to a company and can help them grow significantly more than they would if they were unknown, but the fact of the matter is that public [...]

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Google Needs to Step Up Their Game in Result Relevance

by Mike Mansell January 24, 2011

I don’t think anyone (especially a reader of a blog such as BestTechie) would argue against the statement that the Internet has changed the way we as a society function and live. While finding information only a matter of years ago meant consulting books and visiting a library, Internet users are now able to do [...]

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Despite Failure, Microsoft Holds Onto Bing

by Mike Mansell October 30, 2010

In the world of online search engines, Microsoft’s Bing is definitely not unheard of. After coming out in June of 2009, Bing is the forth largest search engine in the world and is used for aproxamately 3.25% of web searches. While this is somewhat of a low number, it is important to consider that in [...]

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The Best Realtime Search Engines

by Jeff Weisbein June 13, 2010

It’s no secret that in the past I’ve been disappointed with realtime search, however, recently my feelings have changed as I discovered two great realtime search engines. The first is OneRiot and the second is Wowd. While both of them are considered realtime search services, their approaches to solve the same problem are different. OneRiot [...]

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Wowd: A New Approach to Search

by Jeff Weisbein May 28, 2010

Wowd is perhaps one of the most interesting search company’s that you have never heard of, at least, yet. Wowd is a search company but without the giant datacenters. Intrigued? Me too. The way Wowd was describe to me by their CEO, Mark Drummond, is Skype for search. How does it work? Wowd offers a [...]

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