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New comScore search stats methodology yields similar results
comScore announced a new search market statistics methodology recently that, according to a blog post on the comScore site, measures "Explicit Core Search," by which they mean, "user engagement with... Read more...
Yippy buys Clusty and rebrands
Yippy has bought consumer search tool, Clusty from Vivisimo for $5.5 million. Clusty was a consumer tool and as such didn't really fit with the rest of Vivisimo's enterprise focus. Yippy, which was... Read more...
New data suggests Google search in a league of its own
Bing has been a good story throughout 2009 and it's helped raise Microsoft's reputation a bit, but a recent look at the numbers by Comscore in November suggests that, even though folks like to think... Read more...
Bing increases market share in October, but pulls from Yahoo!
Comcsore released its monthly market share figures for October. Bing reported 9.9 percent up from 9.4 percent the previous month. Meanwhile, chief rival Google increased it's substantial market share... Read more...
Daniel Tunkelang leaving Endeca for Google
In a move that certainly shocks me, Daniel Tunkelang, formerly chief scientist at enterprise search vendor Endeca (whom we interviewed One on one) has left Endeca for Google. Tunkelang made the... Read more...
New Bing feature helps you visualize your search
Bing recently introduced a new way of searching, helping you narrow the scope of your search by cycling through a set of pictures. Bing Visual Search, which is still in Beta, is organized into a... Read more...
Bing: Reactions from around the web
Microsoft has released its new search engine, which it is referring to as a "decision engine" because it's supposed to help you make decisions. As with all things Microsoft, it warranted strong... Read more...
Microsoft readies newest consumer search product
First we had Wolfram Alpha--which I wrote about last week in "Wolfram Alpha doesn't impress me"--now we have Bing, the name many feel that Microsoft will give its newest search offering, which until... Read more...
Lycos closes doors in Europe
EContent had a blurb this week that Lycos Europe shareholders had voted to liquidate its assets. Lycos is still operating in the United States, but the once leading search engine has certainly... Read more...
Can Google dominate enterprise search?
Michelle Manafy wrote a piece on EContent Magazine's website summarizing the recent Enterprise Search Summit West. According to her... Read more...
