Bing (formerly known as Live Search), the Microsoft owned search engine is slowly gaining its market share in internet searches. Hitwise, a part of Experian Marketing Services, announced a press release on April 11, 2011 that Google accounted for 64.42 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending April 2, 2011. Bing-powered
Bing was under pressure for reportedly *stealing* Google’s search results. However, it seems they have come out from it. Bing recently released (on 14 March 2011 to be precise) an update to their search ranking algorithm which filter out the websites not relevant to the users based on the geographic location. However, there is no
So, the two search engine giants fighting against each other as Google accused Bing to copy their search results. Google says that Bing has been monitoring what people search on Google, what sites they choose to go from Google’s search result pages and then use that data to improve Bing’s own search result pages. Bing
A new patent application of Microsoft indicates that Microsoft’s search engine Bing might deliver different results based on the intent of the searcher and the time of the year. What is the search engine patent about? Here’s the official abstract of the patent application: “Techniques and systems are disclosed for returning temporally-aware results from an
Last week, Yahoo announced that the organic search results on Yahoo will be powered by Bing beginning in August/September. Yahoo is already testing Bing results on some result pages. Is the Yahoo-Bing change relevant to your website? According to the latest comScore data, Yahoo and Microsoft sites had a combined search market share of 31.6%