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Help Out Your Vanity Search. Search “Me”

April 21, 2009

When searching for yourself or someone else on Google, results can be varied and aren’t always what you want people to see. To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, Google now shows Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated [...]

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Microsoft’s New Mobile Search Brand: Sift?

April 21, 2009

While Microsoft has been turning heads with their two potential new brand names for standard-web search, Bing and Kumo, many have yet to notice their latest trademark name, Sift. According to PaidContent, the trademark for Sift reads, “operating system software for mobile phones; computer search engine software; computer programs for searching email, text messages, address [...]

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Just How Good Does The MSFT Deal Look To Yahoo’s Numbers?

April 14, 2009

Jefferies analyst Youssef Squali ran some of the numbers on Yahoo’s (YHOO) potential search/display ad deal with Microsoft (MSFT) in a report today. His notes from SAI. Keep in mind this is based on a partnership, not an all-out asset swap.

Outsourcing search infrastructure to Microsoft could save Yahoo $1 billion to $1.3 billion per year.
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Google Search Gets Better With Longer Snippets And Recs

March 24, 2009

Google’s search team announced two new improvements in their search experience today.
More and better search refinements. Starting today, Google can better understand associations and concepts related to your search, and one of its first applications offers more useful related searches (the terms found at the bottom, and sometimes at the top, of the search results [...]

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Twitter Needs A Search Model To Succeed, Not Facebok

March 4, 2009

Twitter and it’s army of investors are getting a little too big for their britches. The micro-blogging phenomenon that has taken on a life of it’s own, says that that they will eventually be able to compete with Google in a different kind of search model. It’s because of this potential it sees in search [...]

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