Monday, November 09, 2009
Microsoft's deal with Yahoo under which the software maker's new Bing search engine will be used to power Yahoo searches and Yahoo will sell premium advertising for both companies could be expanded overseas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Google Nov. 5 launched Google Commerce Search to let online retailers power their online stores with Google's search technology. Preparing for the holiday e-commerce rush, Google will host this enterprise search product on its own servers in the cloud to assuage customers' concerns about handling holiday traffic spikes. Smaller companies such as Endeca, Vivisimo, Coveo and Microsoft's Fast enterprise search division already duke it out in the e-commerce search vertical, but now they will have ...
Microsoft and Yahoo! reached a sensible resolution to their long courtship when the companies struck a deal that marries Microsoft’s Bing “decision” engine to Yahoo!’s advertising sales force. Bing will power Yahoo!’s search engine, while Yahoo! sells ads to premium search advertisers. Each company comes away from the deal playing off its strengths – Yahoo! remains the Internet brand and media company it should be, and Microsoft can stay focused on technology while gaining momentum for its fle...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Microsoft's recently launched Bing Twitter site is indexing tweets in real time. Not to be outdone, Google promises that Twitter content will be integrated into Google's search results page in a few months. Yahoo is allegedly working on real-time search with startup OneRiot. What are the implications?
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