Neowin News Feed for: Search engine

Meet Gabriel Weinberg, the man taking on Google and Bing

Max Slater-Robins — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:37:25 +0100

DuckDuckGo is a small startup search engine which offers fair and unrecorded results to anyone. Neowin has interviewed Gabriel Weinberg, the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, on Google, Bing and more. Read more...

Bing falls to #5 search engine, Yandex takes #4

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:28:36 +0000

Bing has been surpassed in global search engine rankings, falling to the #5 spot as Russia's Yandex soars into 4th pace. Unsurprisingly Google still retains place #1 with over 65% market share Read more...

Lycos is not dead, will launch new services in 2013

John Callaham — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:49:36 +0000

Lycos, one of the biggest names in Internet search engines in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is planning to launch a new search engine it developed in house in 2013. Read more...

Bing adds Full Screen feature to homepage

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 06:29:38 +0100

A new button has appeared in the Bing search engine controls that turns on a Full Screen mode, hiding many navigation tools and panes so you can enjoy the beautiful backgrounds without interference Read more...

FTC could be knocking at Google's door over antitrust allegations

Paul Ferson — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:10:58 +0100

After more than a year of investigation, it seems that the FTC feels Google has been exploiting its position at the top of the market to ensure that rival services do not get a chance to oppose. Read more...

Zuckerberg: Facebook will build a search engine

John Callaham — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:17:31 +0100

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed today in an interview that the company has a team that's working on some kind of search engine software, but details were not announced. Read more...

Walmart (yes, Walmart) has its own search engine

John Callaham — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:34:06 +0100

Walmart announced this week that it has developed its own in-house online search engine, called Polaris, that will be used to power its Walmart.com retail website. Read more...

Bing search volume drops 4%

Tyler Holman — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 04:40:55 +0100

Microsoft's search underdog, Bing, reportedly saw a 4% drop in search volume during July, on the heels of the search engine's social update and gains made the month before. Read more...

An insider's look at Bing's search relevance system

Tyler Holman — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:54:46 +0100

Beyond the algorithims and indexes, it's up to people to make sure that search engines deliver the best results, and Bing is no different. Now, thanks to a former employee, we can see how they do it. Read more...

Study: 51 percent of web traffic comes from bots

John Callaham — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:05:25 +0000

A new study claims that, overall, 51 percent of a website's traffic comes from automated sources and that a whopping 31 percent of traffic includes visits that could be harmful to a website. Read more...

Google violates own terms of searches, pandalizes self

Tyler Holman — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:19:11 +0000

You'd think Google would know better than to pay for links that drive up search hits, but apparently not. The company is penalizing itself after it was caught violating its own terms of service. Read more...

Baidu experiences growth in third quarter

Paul Ferson — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:55:38 +0100

China's largest search engine, Baidu, has experienced an unexpected growth in its strength during the third quarter of 2011. Baidu has recently focused more on providing e-commerce and videos, which seems to have struck home... Read more...

Google implements Flash with Instant Previews

Paul Ferson — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:11:43 +0100

It was today that Google chose to implement their newest change for the Instant Preview feature on their world-leading search engine. When you tried to use the Instant Preview feature with a Flash-based site in... Read more...

Yahoo plans to retain search information for eighteen months

Paul Ferson — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:06:59 +0100

At one point, three years ago, Yahoo crowed about how it would keep records of your searching history for only three months. They then said that they would 'purge the information' in order to maintain... Read more...

Microsoft improves Bing personalized search with two cool features

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:52:48 +0000

The Bing Team announced today that Bing will be getting another important update, one that tailors search queries to you. The update to Bing will take into account your location, finding surrounding restaurants and businesses... Read more...

Study finds Bing to be more accurate than Google

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:50:03 +0000

A recent survey conducted between the two search engine giants, Google and Bing, have shown that visitors on Microsoft's search engine are more likely to find what they are looking for in less time than... Read more...

Bing engineer accuses Google of profiting from search spam

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:32:41 +0000

Earlier today a clash of the titans, or clash of the search engine giants, sparked an Internet out burst of Google accusing Bing of stealing their search results. From the looks of it, Microsoft was... Read more...

Google starts to censor torrent-related search queries

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:46:41 +0000

Google has begun blocking torrent-related searches from its autocomplete and instant search. Now when users attempt to search using Google's new autocomplete feature, torrent related words will no longer autocomplete in the search field. Google announced... Read more...

Google Instant Previews now available

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:17:48 +0000

Last month, Neowin reported that Google was testing Instant Previews to go along with Instant Search results, but today they have finally unveiled it for everybody. Google Instant Preview is combined with Instant Search to give... Read more...

Yahoo search ads now fully powered by Microsoft adcenter

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:11:07 +0100

Today marks another milestone for Microsoft, as Yahoo search ads are now fully supported by Microsoft's adCenter. As per the search deal between Yahoo! and Microsoft's Bing last year, not only will the searches be... Read more...