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Rick Santorum's Google problem

Jan 6, 2012
A fractured web presence and unified pranksters affect the presidential candidate's results.

Microsoft and Baidu team up

Jul 5, 2011
Baidu is the dominant search engine in China and the fourth most visited web site in the world. Being in China, of course, means that Baidu censors...

Bing is more Facebooky

May 17, 2011
Bing, the Art Garfunkel of search engines, rolled out some new features today that make the searching experience more social than before. The new...

Bing and Blackberry team up in a collaboration that is not sad at all

May 4, 2011
Microsoft's Bing, the John Oates of search engines, has teamed up with Research In Motion's Blackberry, Pittsburgh Pirates of device makers, on a...

Searches on Yahoo kept in database

Apr 19, 2011
If you go to Yahoo to search for anything (which you would do after you've already searched on Google, Bing and Blekko?), those search records will...

Getting around NY Times paywall is even easier than you thought

Mar 29, 2011
Now that the paywall is officially up and running, Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land put it through its paces to see what kind of reading...

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Does Google favor its own results?

Jan 20, 2011
"Google typically claims that its results are "algorithmically-generated", "objective", and "never manipulated." Google asks the public to belie...

Tons of new things on Bing

Dec 15, 2010
I'm going to punt over to Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land to give you the full rundown of new Bing features. There's a lot of them. More...

Bing = Bing + Facebook

Oct 13, 2010
As we predicted here, the big Bing event had to do with Facebook data being used in searches. Effective immediately, when you search on Bing you...