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Bing grabs a bigger slice of search market
News Web analytics firm StatCounter released analysis on Monday stating that Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, slightly increased the software maker's share of the US search market in July. According to StatCounter analysis, worldwide is where the...
[August 4, 2009, 9:00]
"Microsoft... recently entered the web search market..."
Talkback Competition is heating up this year between Google, the world's dominant provider of web search services, and software giant Microsoft, which recently entered the web search market. I thought Microsoft have been in the web search market for a long...
[March 6, 2007, 12:42]
Blinkx eyes up video search market
News A: We looked at the market, and wondered why consumer search companies were doing so well, when their technology was often a couple of years behind that of enterprise search companies like Autonomy and Verity.
[February 8, 2006, 16:30]
Yahoo desktop search goes mass market
News Yahoo is set to push its Desktop Search program into general availability on Wednesday. Yahoo Desktop Search includes a new feature called LiveWords, which allows people to highlight text within documents and click a button to search for those...
[September 28, 2005, 10:05]
Member Review Corporate search heats up as IBM enters market
News IBM will muscle into the corporate search software market with the delivery on Thursday of a significant update to its database tools. Masala, named after an Indian spice mixture, will introduce a text-based search engine based on research from IBM...
[September 30, 2004, 9:20]
Microsoft warns Google off enterprise search
News Microsoft is digging in for a fight with Google in the enterprise search market. Search from the desktop to the enterprise to the Internet is a business of great importance and a market of great importance to us," he said Tuesday.
[July 14, 2006, 9:50]
Google, Bing gain search share at Yahoo's expense
News Yahoo continues to lose share in the search market, as Google and Microsoft pick up the difference. ComScore's measurement of the US search market in October shows that Google still dominates the search landscape.
[November 18, 2009, 8:43]
Microsoft search business losing out to Google
News Microsoft is continuing to lose market share in the search business to industry rival Google, something the software maker's financial chief said on Thursday he is "not happy" about. Given Google's large head start in the market and its ongoing...
[January 26, 2007, 7:46]
Yahoo makes Overture worth £1bn
News Yahoo announced on Monday that it plans to buy search firm Overture Services in a $1.63bn (£1bn) deal, in a move squarely aimed at taking on competitors in the search-engine market. It's a market where search rival Google has been making inroads.
[July 14, 2003, 14:29]
Autonomy acquires Verity
News Competitors such as Google already have the capital to be formidable foes in the search market. Enterprise search company Autonomy has announced it will acquire its competitor Verity for approximately $500m (£300m).
[November 4, 2005, 14:50]
Yahoo's Overture may force Microsoft's hand
News Yahoo's $1.63bn buyout of Overture Services signals a dramatic shake-up of the Web search market that could wake a sleeping giant: Microsoft. The deal thrusts Yahoo into the spotlight as the one to beat in the fastest growing segment of the online...
[July 15, 2003, 8:22]
Yahoo threatens Google with Mindset search
News Yahoo has released a beta version of its Mindset Internet search tool in an attempt to steal a march on Google and regain market share by reducing the user curse of spam hits. But Azoff also believes that Mindshare has the potential to shake Google...
[June 2, 2005, 17:25]
Europe search partners fight US threat
News Upping the stakes in the European Internet-search market, one of the region's top providers of algorithmic, noncommercial search results has teamed with Europe's No.commercial listings provider to better compete against powerful US rivals.
[January 16, 2003, 11:16]
How Google changed the rules
News Internet search is reaching an important pivot point, where market leaders are rewarded by Wall Street, laggards are punished, and start-ups try to fill niches left empty by the major players. There has been quite a bit of venture activity lately...
[December 6, 2005, 16:50]
Google celebrates 70 percent profit rise
News Google's first-quarter profit rose 69 percent and results beat Wall Street expectations as the company turned search market share gains into even more revenue from its core paid search advertising business.
[April 20, 2007, 11:12]
Microsoft desktop search nears completion
News Microsoft on Monday plans to release a final version of its desktop-search software, as it tries to enhance its presence in the burgeoning market staked out by rivals Yahoo and Google. Microsoft is vying for new credibility in the multibillion...
[May 16, 2005, 9:40]
Google gets market share boost
News Google is increasing its lead over Yahoo and Microsoft in the US Web search market while a rebranded Ask.com is inching up, according to the latest statistics from ComScore Networks. Yahoo's search market share in the United States fell to 27.6...
[March 29, 2006, 10:30]
Paid search booming
News In addition, the search market is expected to become more specialised, as search focuses more on specific categories, according to the study published last week by Jupiter Research. Specialised search in four categories -- retail; financial...
[February 24, 2005, 12:20]
Google seeks better business sales
News Web-search leader Google is hoping to rev up lacklustre sales in the enterprise search market with an updated hardware and software package that promises faster and more comprehensive results for corporations, governments and universities.
[June 2, 2004, 9:15]
