The reason that the vast majority of people use Google as their preferred Search Engine over others (e.g. Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Clusty, Wolfram Alpha etc.) is because Google does search best. Google has such huge Search Engine market share because it returns more relevant results to searchers and is constantly improving. Google does well because [...]
The Search Engine landscape has been through a tumultuous time over the past few weeks. First we had Wolfram Alpha emerging from nowhere and then Microsoft Live becoming Microsoft Bing. I was initially a bit hesitant whether Bing was any better than Live however after using Bing a bit I am convinced that Bing is [...]
I was trying out the very cool Google Squared earlier and was interested that the following error is returned in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) when searching for ‘google squared’: Google Squared couldn’t automatically build a Square about google squared Google Squared may not be perfect but it again raises the stakes in the [...]
There is much talk about Search Engine Optimization and there are many tips out there about how best to optimize websites. The search engines (Google, Yahoo, Wolfram Alpha, Microsoft Live etc.) do not publicise their search and ranking algorithms however there is general consensus out there as to what best practice for SEO constitutes. Below [...]
Microsoft Bing, the replacement of the Microsoft Live Search (which was the replacement for MSN Search) goes live on 3rd June 2009 (at www.bing.com.au in Australia). Microsoft Bing was codenamed Kumo in development and, according to Microsoft offers a better search experience (when will Microsoft finally settle on a single name for their search?). According [...]
