Adaptive search – personalised search evolved
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Search engines have a very difficult job having to deal with a multitude of issues – however possibly one of the more complex is intent. Without context many search engine phrases typed into search engines may relate to a multitude of different things and without further qualification a search engine may struggle to [...]
Experts View 2011: What are your big 3 predictions for 2011
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Before I start, I would like to thank Bas van den Beld, David Harry, Nichola Stott, Judith Lewis, Andy Beard, Andy Redfern, Ben Bisco, Shaun Anderson, Paul Reilly and Will Critchlow for taking part in the Q & A – hopefully the first in a number of these taking place over the course [...]
Experts View 2011:Do you think there is further consolidation within the search engine marketplace?
{lang: ‘en-GB’} In the penultimate part of our experts view series, we asked the experts as to whether or not they thought 2011 would be a further year of consolidation given what has happened in 2010. With the Bing/Yahoo deal expected to kick into full swing, and legacy 2010 deals such as the Google/ITA deal [...]
Experts View 2011: Do you think a viable competitor to Google will emerge in 2011?
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Its the start of a bright new year, and rather than give you my personal thoughts on what I thought the new year holds, I thought I would get a couple of friends to join me in sharing their thoughts and opinions on what the new year holds. Due to the sheer nature [...]
Google losing UK market share … to Yahoo
{lang: ‘en-GB’} We have been doing a number of these search engine analysis pieces over the last 12 months or so, and many have highlighted the significant strides made by Bing into the UK market share. The UK search engine marketplace is one heavily dominated by Google and has for while now topped over 90% [...]
Search and Social get engaged – Bing and Facebook announce search partnership
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Interesting news coming out of the US tonight with Facebook announcing a eye-opening partership with Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Whilst we have got used to Google announcing a number of improvements during the course of the last 12 months – such as the recent Google Instant announcement – we haven’t heard alot from [...]
Cuil not so cool after all
{lang: ‘en-GB’} According to reports coming out from TechCrunch & Search Engine Land, the so-called ‘Google Killer’ Cuil is currently now offline and faces a very uncertain future. Reports on TechCrunch reported that Cuil went down after last minute acquisition talks failed. They said “Cuil was in the final stages of an acquisition as of [...]
Can Bing become a viable competitor to Google
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Over the course (since we did the post on ‘Has the Bing Advertising campaign been worth it?‘) of the last month or so we have run a poll on the site, as to whether or not Bing was a viable competitor to Google. The results made interesting reading Under half of respondents (41%) [...]
Has the Bing Advertising campaign been worth it?
{lang: ‘en-GB’} I was watching television over the course of the weekend and noticed the seemingly ongoing Bing adverts. These were part of a multi-million pound advertising campaign by Bing – and further to those months of testing I revisited the market share data to see whether this has been effective. These were the stats [...]
Decision Engine – More work needs to be done for Bing to compete with Google
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Bing has been on a major push over the last couple of months promoting the Bing decision engine as a viable alternative to Google. Fellow professionals appear to have taken a Marmite stance to Bing, some love it, others hate it myself – I would have to unfortunately sit myself still in Camp [...]
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