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Search Engine News - Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Google Privacy

By xfernal on 12/15/2009 • Rank (1199) • Views (1192) •Comments(0)

The Washington Times interview of Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his detail explanation on Google Privacy issues.

Search Engine News - #Bing IS Gaining Ground on #Google in Search - @bing

By xfernal on 12/5/2009 • Rank (1225) • Views (1217) •Comments(0)

I keep seeing these post that boast that Bing is gaining ground in the total search engine market, but are not really affecting Google’s share. This simply is not true… at least according to the statistics provided by ComScore.

Search Engine News - Microsoft bolsters Bing Maps

By xfernal on 12/3/2009 • Rank (1008) • Views (1001) •Comments(0)

The world's largest software manufacturer is launching a new beta version of its Bing Maps website in an effort to better compete with Google, the dominant player in the online search market.

Search Engine News - Google Has New Crawler for News

By xfernal on 12/2/2009 • Rank (896) • Views (889) •Comments(3)

Google has released a new crawler just for news. The user agent for the bot is: Googlebot-News

Search Engine News - Google VP Mayer Describes the Perfect Search Engine

By xfernal on 11/15/2009 • Rank (482) • Views (472) •Comments(1)

There was an article last week on PCWorld about Google VP of search Marissa Mayer talking to IDGNS about the perfect search engine and the secret of Google's success in search. Last month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during the company's earnings call that Google had implemented about 120 search quality improvements during the third quarter as it...

Search Engine News - I'm Vivo! Top 500 Most Recent Searches

By xfernal on 10/30/2009 • Rank (691) • Views (564) •Comments(0)

Here is a list of the top 500 most recent searches.

Search Engine News - Will there be a BingBot in the future? - @Bing

By xfernal on 10/27/2009 • Rank (611) • Views (588) •Comments(3)

So, since Ballmer admitted Microsoft was slow about getting into the search market, will anyone from the Bing team admit that MSNBot is slower than Googlebot? Last week I asked if the reason Bing cannot keep up with Google was because of their crawling process. I thought maybe I would get an answer from Bing since I sent them a direct message via T...

Search Engine News - The Reason Bing Cannot Keep Up With Google? - @bing

By xfernal on 10/24/2009 • Rank (1686) • Views (1663) •Comments(4)

I have been using Bing for a while now as my default search provider. I do like the relevancy of the results. However, I consistently have to do Google searches to find newer and more results. Now in my searches, they are undoubtedly mainly work related. These searches would be for .Net error messages, Namespace references, example code, server con...

Search Engine News - Bing Lands Deal With Twitter...and Google Too

By xfernal on 10/21/2009 • Rank (982) • Views (975) •Comments(0)

At the Web 2.0 Summit this morning, Microsoft annouced it has landed a deal with Twitter to offer real time Twitter search results. Qu Li, the head of Microsoft's online division, mentioned the Facebook negotiations before making the Twitter announcement, but said further details won't be available for some time.

Search Engine News - AIML Predicates

By xfernal on 12/31/2009 • Rank (147) • Views (148) •Comments(0)

[Definition: An AIML predicate is an item that can be "declared" at any point in an AIML object and whose value can be manipulated by the AIML object within template elements.] 9.1. AIML Predicate name syntax [Definition: An AIML predicate name is a string composed of one or more normal characters, concatenated together.] Predicate Name...