One of the stories that dominated tech news yesterday was that Mozilla started shipping a version of the Firefox browser with Microsoft’s Bing search engine as the default search engine instead of Google Search. Some news sites made it look like as if Mozilla dropped Google as the browser’s search provider in favor of Microsoft’s [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Search Engines

While some experts say that daily deals sites are already fading away again others say that their boom will continue in the next years. Microsoft with its Bing search engine certainly thinks that there is money to be made as they have just launched Bing Daily Deals in twelve US cities. Cities included in the [...]

Categories: Microsoft

The Bing homepage and the Google homepage have several things in common. They both embed a search form prominently on the page. The page itself has been designed to be almost distraction free. Both pages have something else in common; Media on the page. The Google page displays so called Doodles instead of the standard [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Bing just like Google may display sitelinks or authority links underneath the first search result for a certain query. Google recently gave those sitelinks more room which I criticized for being to large for what little value they add to the search results page. Bing basically stayed with the initial design that displays a list [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines

A recent search engine trend is to personalize the user experience. You can best see this on Google Search, where you not only see personalized search results based on previous searches and activities, but also +1′s by friends. If you take ten users and ask them to search on Google Search for the same topic, [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines

Both Bing and Google are dead serious that search engine users want a search that is more social, that weaves recommendation’s, likes and personal messages into the results. This change is happening right now, as both Bing and Google are already adding social recommendations in their search results. The two search engines may promote results [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Bing back in February announced the integration of Facebook likes into the search results. Friend recommendations appeared only on some results pages at that time. This changed yesterday with the roll out of the second stage of Facebook integration. What’s the reasoning behind adding friend likes to the search results? According to Microsoft, it stems [...]

Categories: Facebook, Microsoft, Search Engines

You may know that I have switched by primary search engine from Google to Bing sometime last year. I was fed up with Google for several reasons, including their constant push of Google owned properties into the search engine results and the deteriorating quality of search. I suspected that Bing’s quality was not really better [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Is social the next search? Rumors about Facebook Search have been spread for years; The data that Facebook’s developers could utilize sounds enormous: Content from more than 500 million users who share loads of contents on Facebook. The obvious benefit in comparison to traditional search engines? The data is user generated. Google or Bing crawl [...]

Categories: Search Engines