The deal that was soooo close to happening so many times and never came through, well, finally came throughwith a lot less lead-up and fanfare than anytime it was rumored to be happening. I think this will be a good opportunity for Yahoo to spend time working on its content even more, and to help [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Search Engines'
Yahoo and MSN merge search – it’s official
July 29th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: bing · bing sucks · fail · Google · Google sucks · MSN · MSN sucks · online marketing news · Search News · win · Yahoo · Yahoo sucks
Yahoo Image Search By Creative Commons License
May 26th, 2009 No Comments
For the blogging and presenting set, a new fun function from Yahoo Image search: Breakdowns by creative commons permissions.
Let’s face it – this never really stopped anyone from re-using content from other sites and especially images – especially in instances where the license wasn’t made especially clear. But, much like iTunes when it first came out, [...]
Tags: image search · Search News · universal search · win · Yahoo · Yahoo sucks
Wolfram Alpha = Wikipedia killer?
May 19th, 2009 No Comments
Seems like everyone inside and outside the industry has pegged Wolfram Alpha as the next Google killer – you know, like Cuil. That really turned out well for the prognosticators, no?
It seems like every new engine with any kind of a backstory is going to be a Google killer. Hell, Twitter added a search function and [...]
Tags: Google · Google sucks · twitter · win · wolfram alpha
Yahoo is getting destroyed
January 12th, 2009 No Comments
Word is that Yahoo’s share of the search market dropped from 30.4% in September to 19.4% in December. In this same span of time, MSN rose up to 16.4%. Google’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 112% as usual.
I’m not sure if this is because MSN’s improving or if Yahoo’s bi-monthly giant algorithm changes of doom [...]
Tags: fail · MSN · MSN sucks · PPC news · Search News · Yahoo · Yahoo sucks
Scientists: Google’s killing the environment
January 12th, 2009 No Comments
The latest global warming culprit is apparently…well, us. By that I mean the search engine industry, we as a whole heard that we’re the problem a long time ago.
More specifically, it’s Google that’s getting the finger this time. Apparently, between your computer and their servers running:
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about [...]
Tags: fail · Google · Google sucks · Search News
