Time for Google, and Microsoft, to call Murdock’s bluff

There's been a lot of go-round this past week about Rupert Murdock yanking everyone's chain about pulling their content from Google unless the search giant is willing to cough up some money for the privilege of indexing News Corp ... continue

Your Google PageRank may soon depend how fast your site loads – Why?

Google has been making a lot of news over the past while about how it wants to help speed up the web; and as nice as that might be it has gotten more than a few people ... continue

The hashtag jungle of real time search

Last week my partners in crime over at The Cynical Bastards podcast talked about the deals that Twitter had made with both Microsoft and Google that would allow both companies access to the fire hose of information ... continue

Google – the new playground of malware scum

It's bad enough when regular sites get hijacked by people who want to fill your computer with all kinds of spyware and other assorted types of malware but when they start manipulating Google search results I think ... continue

Looking at the nuances of the Twitter search deals

Well there is no denying that today was an interesting one when it comes to the world of search and the real time web. From everything I have read so far today everyone seems to be of ... continue

Granny sex is more popular than naked chickens

I have often wondered as a blogger what would happen if my browser and search history was ever examined by law enforcement. Think about it – bloggers are always searching for stuff that ranges ... continue

Face.com follows Photo Finder with Photo Tagger for Facebook

Back in May, we told you about Face.com's Photo Finder, a facial recognition app for Facebook that aims to find tags for untagged photos floating about in your network. Photo Finder has racked up some impressive stats since ... continue

More Bing homepage photos plus a photo contest

I realize that this news will really only apply to a small segment of readers, those one’s not swimming in the Google kool-aid at least, but when it comes to Bing one of the ... continue

Yet another Twitter search company to go public June 18

Word comes from Mary Jo Foley about a new search company that plans on taking the wraps off of their social search startup on June 18. The startup is run by former Microsoft General ... continue

Microsoft’s Bing ads and the logic of a decision engine

It would seem that a part of that massive $100 million that Microsoft has earmarked for the advertising campaign for Bing has started to flow. so far there have been three commercials that have ... continue

The straight scoop on how they came up with Bing

So everyone has had a chance to kick the tires of Microsoft’s new rebranded search engine decision-engine and not surprisingly the reviews are mixed. Putting all that aside though one still has to ... continue

[SHOCKER] Did you really expect any love for Bing?

Unexpectedly Microsoft unleashed the preview (beta) of their new (or is it rebranded?) search engine decision-engine called Bing earlier than expected. While everyone was waiting with baited breath and sharpened knives for June 3rd ... continue