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Would the real Search Neutrality please stand up >> ORG Zine

guardiantech — 2012-06-06T21:10:23+00:00

The co-founders of Foundem, who complained to the European Commission:

Despite being one of network neutrality’s most enthusiastic advocates, Google is fighting against the growing calls for search neutrality. In December 2009, we posed a question to Google: how can discriminatory market power be dangerous in the hands of a network provider, but somehow harmless in the hands of an overwhelmingly dominant search engine? So far, Google’s response has been evasive..
The competitors Google is referring to when it says “competition is just a click away” are rival horizontal search engines like Yahoo and Bing, but the businesses being harmed by the anti-competitive practices described in our Complaint are not these rival horizontal search engines; they are the thousands of businesses that compete with Google’s other services—in price comparison, online video, digital mapping, news aggregation, local search, travel search, financial search, job search, property search, social networking, and so on.

DuckDuckGo sets new traffic record, but stats show how dominant Google and others are >> Search Engine Land

guardiantech — 2012-01-25T22:46:14+00:00

ComScore says there were 18.2 billion explicit core searches in the U.S. in December. Some quick math indicates, then, that DuckDuckGo’s query volume is about 0.00004 of overall search activity — or about one in every 25,000 searches.

So again, props to DuckDuckGo on the new records and for even showing query data to the public at all. (Wouldn’t it be great if Google and Bing did the same?) But wow … still such a long, long way to go.

DuckDuckGo is, indeed, a pretty good search engine (which doesn't gather any user data). Oddly, we can't get Chrome to make it our default search engine.

Google's Results Get More Personal With "Search Plus Your World" >> Search Engine Land

guardiantech — 2012-01-10T17:56:58+00:00

Google is going to have a painstaking time explaining this one.

Bing U.S. market share flat at 14.7% during September >> WinRumors

guardiantech — 2011-10-13T05:34:35+00:00

"Microsoft’s Bing search market share maintained its 14.7% in the United States during the month of September. "The software giant’s “decision engine” held onto 14.7% U.S. market share compared to Google’s 65.3% according to data from comScore. Yahoo’s market share dropped to 15.5% following a 16.3% figure in August." That's going to put a dent in Mashable's straight-line extrapolation where Bing + Yahoo take over from Google some time next year, then.

News, Articles, Videos and Photos Search Results >> WSJ.com

guardiantech — 2011-08-11T06:03:17+00:00

"U.S. antitrust regulators are focusing their investigation of Google Inc. on key areas of its business, including its Android mobile-phone software and Web-search related services, people familiar with the probe say."

With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog >> NYTimes.com

guardiantech — 2011-08-01T06:28:35+00:00

Going toe-to-toe with Google costs Microsoft $5bn+ *a year*, according to industry execs who spoke to the NYT. And who said it should axe Bing?

Bing Becomes a Costly Distraction for Microsoft >> NYTimes.com

guardiantech — 2011-07-26T06:04:05+00:00

"Microsoft needs to concentrate on a different kind of search: finding a buyer for Bing, its online search business. Bing is the industry’s distant No. 2 after Google. It has become a distraction for the software giant — one that costs shareholders dearly. The division that houses Bing lost $2.6 billion in the latest fiscal year. Facebook, or even Apple, might make a better home for Bing. A sale would be a boon for Microsoft’s investors."

Bing Facebook Friends Now Fueling Faster Decisions on Bing >> Bing Community

guardiantech — 2011-05-17T06:48:09+00:00

Big move: "Starting today, you can receive personalized search results based on the opinions of your friends by simply signing into Facebook. New features make it easier to see what your Facebook friends “like” across the Web, incorporate the collective know-how of the Web into your search results, and begin adding a more conversational aspect to your searches. Decisions can now be made with more than facts, now the opinions of your trusted friends and the collective wisdom of the Web."