Neowin News Feed for: Ranking

Samsung beats Google to top best brand rankings globally

Hemant Saxena — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:36:02 +0000

In a report released by the UK-based market research firm YouGov, Samsung Electronics has ranked first in the Global Best Brand Rankings for 2022 with 127 points. It is followed by Google and YouTube. Read more...

Google is improving its search results to protect people from online harassment

Usama Jawad — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:10:01 +0000

Google has announced that it will be enhancing its Search service to better protect people from harassment online. It will do this by automatically demoting search rankings of predatory websites. Read more...

Yahoo! outperforms Google and Microsoft according to latest poll figures

Phi Ha — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:05:56 +0000

comScore has revealed Yahoo! as the most popular US web property of July. It comes as a relief for newly appointed CEO Marissa Mayer, who has made many changes to outperform Google and Microsoft. Read more...

Study finds iPhone to be most reliable smartphone, beats Lumia and Galaxy

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:46:04 +0000

FixYa, a community troubleshooting site, have released their "smartphone reliability report" which ranks smartphone manufactures. Apple came in first, followed by Samsung, then Nokia, then Motorola. Read more...

Windows Phone Marketplace app ranking algorithm changed

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:59:30 +0000

While Microsoft continues to build its Windows and Window Phone Stores, recent changes to the ranking algorithms could impact the smaller developers trying to get their apps seen. Read more...

Only 9 countries ready for future broadband applications

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:32:19 +0000

A study looking at the quality of broadband across 66 countries worldwide has found that only nine countries are ready for future demand, with two-thirds meeting the criteria for today's requirements only. The study placed... Read more...

Lenovo tops eco-friendly ranking

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:34:58 +0000

According to Greenpeace, Chinese computer maker Lenovo is the world's most eco-friendly electronics firm (scoring 8 out of 10) while Apple is last (scoring 2.7 out of 10) of the 14 profiled. The quarterly report... Read more...

Google to Defend Ranking Methods in Court

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:59:19 +0000

Google today will try to convince a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges the heart of the company's business: its methods for indexing and ranking Web pages. In March, Google was sued by KinderStart.com,... Read more...

Google trying to patent news ranking by quality

Fri, 06 May 2005 14:53:44 +0000

Web search leader Google Inc. has applied for U.S. and international patents on technology to rank stories on its news site based on the quality of the news source, according to patent applications obtained by... Read more...

USA Charts: EA Sports' NCAA Football 2005 tops July ranking

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:54:02 +0000

Electronic Arts has maintained its position as the number one publisher in the USA in July, holding on to 26 per cent market share as NCAA Football 2005 sold over half a million units on... Read more...

ELSPA launches mobile game chart; Tetris tops March ranking

Wed, 05 May 2004 20:18:04 +0000

Publisher representative body ELSPA has announced the creation of a new monthly chart providing sales data for the most popular mobile games in the UK, using data compiled from the country's four largest network operators.... Read more...

Microsoft loses No. 2 ranking in market value to drug maker

Tom Warren — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:26:54 +0000

Microsoft has lost its status as the world's second-largest corporation to drug maker Pfizer due to slowing sales growth that caused it to miss out on this year's stock-market rally. Pfizer's market... Read more...