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Asia's search hits record high in September
News Search queries in region clocks 38.6 billion last month, compared to 33 billion last year, with Google leading way as preferred search site, study shows.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., search engine, Search, Web sites, Asia-Pacific, Australia, South Korea
Bug testers: Google is clean, Bing is buggy
News Recent contest to probe search engines for bugs found technical issues with Microsoft's Bing but gave it and Google high marks for experience delivered.
Tags: Search, GUI, Bug, Survey, QA, outsource, accounting, Search
S'pore offers certification for social marketing
News Singapore company provides training and certification course designed to teach companies how to use social media sites as marketing platforms.
Tags: Marketing, Internet, Certification, Social Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Asia, Social Media, Tool, Singapore, Small And Medium Business
Pirate Bay suffers outage, site back up
News The controversial BitTorrent search engine goes down for at least three hours the day after the site's ISP reportedly cut off service.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Web 2.0, search engine, Site, CBS Interactive Inc., Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, entertainment, Internet Service, Pirate Bay
Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search
News Microsoft executives Qi Lu and Yusuf Mehdi debut Twitter integration with Bing search results at Web 2.0 Summit. The Facebook partnership will come at a later date.
Tags: Search, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., partnership, Search Result, financial, Web 2.0
Report: Italian regulators expand Google probe
News A week after investigating complaints about Google News, antitrust regulators in Italy have reportedly expanded that investigation to include Google search.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Regulator, Google News, Eric Schmidt, Italy, online advertising, board of directors, Search Result, Apple Inc.
Report: Yahoo joins OneRiot for real-time search
News Partnership between Yahoo and OneRiot could pave the way for real-time search in Yahoo results, a week after Microsoft and Google announced their own plans.
Tags: Search, Web services, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, partnership, Web Browser, Search Result, TechCrunch
Google: Pirate Bay booted off search by mistake
News Site is unavailable on Google's search pages for a while last week, but Google says it was just a mistake. The controversial BitTorrent search engine is being indexed again.
Tags: Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., search engine, TV, attorney, Internet Service, Internet Service Provider, Google Search, Internet
Internet Archive's BookServer could 'dominate' Amazon
News A new initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive aims to make all books, commercial or public domain, available for digital distribution. If it works, Amazon could be in serious trouble.
Tags: Handhelds, Publisher, Google Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., search engine, e-reader, BookServer, Amazon.com Inc., public domain, Amazon Kindle
Google: We've got cool search, too
News Google adds a link to its home page describing how to search for interesting results on Google. It's long offered such capabilities, but Bing's bump could have prompted a reminder.
Tags: Search, Web services, Stock, Microsoft Corp., search bar, Google Inc., Google Search, Internet search, search technology, Internet
Microsoft's Bing has a second good week
News ComScore reports Bing continued to tick up in market share in past week and is now up about 3 percentage points from where Microsoft was pre-Bing.
Tags: Search, Microsoft Corp., ComScore Networks Inc., software, software company, game, Search Engine, VP, Search
Bing claims 8 percent rise in users during June
News Microsoft's relaunched search engine attracted 8 percent more unique users in June, according to the company's data.
Tags: Search, Search Engine, Wireless, Hitwise, communications company, wireless communication, Search
Search leaders debate semantics
News Everyone agrees that semantic search technology--the notion of correctly assessing a searcher's intent--holds promise, and maybe money.
Tags: Search, Web services, Search, Ask.com, W3C, leader, Web, conference, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
Microsoft criticizes privacy in Chrome 3.0
News Latest version of the browser logs every search keystroke and sends it back to Google, Microsoft executive points out.
Tags: Privacy, Web browsers, Google Inc., Security, Microsoft Corp., software, Web Browser, Privacy, software company, Google Chrome
Yahoo overhauls search results
News Internet giant stresses its commitment to improving user experience, following Microsoft deal in July, with revamped version of its search results.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web servers, Data Management, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo IM, IM, Search Result, blog
