The latest US search engine market share statistics compiled by Nielsen have been released and they confirm a trend that we have predicted for some time now. Microsoft’s Bing search engine managed to grow from 9% to 13.6 in the last twelve months, while Yahoo fell sharply from 17.1% to 14.3 and Google Search moderately [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Leveraging search engines to identify vulnerable systems and data in corporate networks, websites and services is generally known as Google Hacking, with Google standing synonymous for all search engines. Recent changes in Google’s SOAP-API rendered many security tools using Google useless. The aim of the Diggity project is to provide security researchers and network admins [...]

Categories: Google, Hacking, Security

Just as Microsoft and Yahoo! have joined forces in search, now Yahoo! Japan and Google have linked up too. Yahoo!’s Japanese search engine will now use Google’s technology rather than stick with fellow partner Microsoft and their Bing search engine as reported by NeoWin.

Categories: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo

One thing that Microsoft seems to have done right, when it comes to their Bing search engine, is the daily changing homepage image that many Bing users seem to like. It is possible to download the active image easily in the web browser to the local computer system. Previous Bing images can be downloaded as [...]

Categories: Search Engines, Software, Windows

Yahoo and Microsoft have been testing Bing powered search results offline for some time now. A recent email sent out to advertisers confirmed that the testing will be moved to the live search results shortly. During that period part of Yahoo’s Live search results will be powered by Bing, “with paid search volume in particular [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines, Yahoo

Search engines are constantly evolving, a recent trend puts related searches and information on the search result pages to provide searchers with additional options and direct answers of their search queries. The Bing team announced yesterday that the layout and design of Bing search has been changed for all users. The most obvious change is [...]

Categories: Search Engines

I switched to Bing recently and had my fair share of experience with Microsoft’s search engine. The main reason for switching was a deterioration of quality results in Google Search. It began in May and has not changed since then. That, and the noise that has been added to search result pages over the past [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are always looking for ways to make their search engines better, and Google’s latest volley into search has kicked off today with a caffeine hit. This new way to index pages treats all pages on the web the same, their old system treated web pages as being of different tiers, some [...]

Categories: Google

I have been working with the Bing search engine for the last couple of days after switching to it from Google Search. It still takes time to get used to this new search engine after using Google for the last decade or so almost exclusively. I really do not want to say to much about [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines