Newsletters, product offers, Facebook and Twitter notifications, that person you don’t know who emails you a 7MB file. It adds up. And Gmail’s supposedly “endless” space might not be keeping pace.
A week and a half after Chinese search engine Baidu beat Q2 sales and profit estimates, and forecast above consensus, UBS Securities analyst Wenlin Li today raised the stock’s rating to “Neutral” from “Sell” and more than doubled its price target on the stock to $380 from $150.
The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge–the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part–the part a machine can do.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been talking a lot over the past two weeks about Yahoo and how it competes against Google and Microsoft.
Three times in the last month, government agencies have targeted Google (GOOG) for antitrust reviews.
In theory, getting users to ditch one Internet search engine for another should be an easy sell. But doing so is likely to cost Microsoft every penny of the roughly $100 million it plans to spend on an advertising campaign that starts Wednesday for its new Bing search engine.
In economist speak, there are virtually no “switching costs” for a consumer that wants to change from one search engine to another, other than the burden of typing Bing.com into a Web browser instead of Google.com.
Google and Wolfram|Alpha are providing utterly different services, and as you might expect, that means the terms of use are also utterly different.
Microsoft’s challenge to grow its share of the search business isn’t just a global issue.
Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales’s project that was supposed to put the social into search, is getting closed down today, CNET reports.
I have mentioned Google’s music-related activities in China a few times during the past two years; and just yesterday this topic seems to have heated up considerably.
In trying to become the Next Big Thing on the Internet, many Web sites have risen and fallen in the past. This is all a throat-clearing to Think Out Loud about Twitter and Facebook. (Like I’ve been doing anything else lately.)
A headline that kicked around the blogosphere this weekend made no sense to me: “Wolfram Alpha Is Coming–and It Could Be as Important as Google.”
The post–written by Nova Spivack, the chief executive of Radar Networks–took a look at a new sort of search engine being cooked up in secret by Stephen Wolfram, a British mathematician.
The Web has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to evolve and leave embedded franchises struggling or in the dirt. Prodigy, AOL were early candidates. Today Yahoo and eBay are struggling, and I think Google is tipping down the same path, while Twitter continues to gain momentum.
If Yahoo’s search engine made it easier to organize a ski trip or research a new cellphone, would you use it more frequently?
The search engine–a distant second to Google in usage–is hoping so. Yahoo announced plans Wednesday to start testing a new research tool that tries to detect when someone is doing a research-related search and offers to save Web pages and notes in a separate document for future recall.
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