Microsoft's Bing Grabs 12.7% of Search Marketshare
The BBC is reporting that research from ComScore indicates Bing has grapped as much as 12.7% of the search market. Microsoft just launch Bing a year ago. The study also found that Google has 62.6% and Yahoo has 18.9%.
Satya Nadello of Microsoft's online division told BBC News they are in it to win. Nadello said, "We have barely gotten into double digits but we want this to grow into a significant business for Microsoft. It is a huge market where there is a significant profit pool that can be achieved. But we definitely wouldn't be in it if we were not going to play to win."
Posted on July 14, 2010
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Zakta Launches Social Search Engine
Zakta.com is a social web search engine. In addition to traditional searching, Zakta also allows users to edit their search results and build on the results of others.
Here are some of the features Zakta provides according to the press release:
- Fully editable search results. Zakta's search results are completely editable and under the user's control. A user can delete results that aren't relevant. Drag-and-drop results to rearrange them, or add tags and annotations to any result.
- Automatically saved searches. Zakta automatically saves all changes into a user's Zakta account so users benefit from their changes whenever they search again.
- Tools to gather and save information from everywhere. Zakta provides tools like the Zakta ClipPad, the Zakta Plugin, and Zakta SearchPacks, to find information anywhere on the web and include it in the user's search process.
- Easy knowledge sharing. Zakta enables users to share their results in the form of Zakta Guides.
- Trusted collaboration. Users can invite other people they trust - such as colleagues, friends, or family members - to find information together and use a Zakta Guide as a living, collaborative document.
Posted on October 24, 2009
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Web Surfing Highlights
Here are some Internet and web surfing news highlights from around the Web.Posted on March 30, 2007
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25 Web 2.0 Search Engines
The Online Education Database (OEDb) has posted an interesting collection of 25 Web 2.0 search engines. The post includes good descriptions of each search engine. The collection includes Flickr search tools like Flickr Storm, Tagnautica, Tiltomo, Xcavator and Retriever. There are rich applications searches like Huckabuck, KwMap and Ujiko. Also included is Whonu, which is billed as a semantic web search engine.Posted on February 10, 2007
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Visual Web Search With Pagebull
Pagebull is a visual search engine that gives you an idea of what pages look like before you visit them. For example, if you search Pagebull for recipes you will see pictures of pages from AllRecipes, the Food Network, Epicurous, Better Homes and Gardens and Meals.com in the search results. Panda Search Engine News explains how Pagebull has abandoned text search results completely by using linked pictures of pages instead of words and hyperlinks.
What makes Pagebull stand apart, though, is that all results are presented as pictures of the search result pages. Yes, that's right, this is not a question of adding small thumbnails to regular search results (that has been done before). Pagebull abandons text alltogether.It is a good thing the text on the pages is not very readable -- otherwise the websites being listed might object to their content being framed by Pagebull. As is stands most web publishers will probably not object to what Pagebull is doing. Pagebull does provide information for webmasters who do not want their site in Pagebull. Pagebull is an interesting search tool that provides a completely new way to search the web.
Pagebull shows the search results in a 3 by 4, 2 by 6 or 4 by 3 image grid, depending on your Internet browser window size. You can use a drop down menu to customize the image grid, if needed.
It is amazing to see how much information is contained in pictures like this. Although it may be hard to read the text present in the images, the lay out, the picture selected and the main headlines immediately give you an impression of what the page is about.
Posted on December 11, 2006
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Searchbots Return
Searchbots has returned after a three year absence. When the site was active 30,000 search bots were created.
Searchbots was originally launched in 1999 by Morse Media as a way of showcasing Macromedia's Flash Generator and over 30,000 personalised Searchbots were built. The project proved to be unsustainable and has been under redevelopment for the last three years as a research project.The website says that in May that the "new Searchbots prototype was launched today at the Webstock Conference in Wellington, New Zealand. The website is still under development but you can build your own Searchbot and do a colour or tag search." It is cool that the personal searchbots have returned.
Posted on October 13, 2006
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Google is the Search King
Google is still the search king according to new data from HitWise. In article citing HitWise's statistics, IT Wire reports that Google has 47.4% of the search market. However, they trail their competitors in services like web-based mail, online news and digital mapping.According to the newly released Hitwise figures, Google has 47.4% share of the search market, which is pushing toward double the combined shares of Yahoo (16%) and Microsoft's MSN (11.5%). However, based on the same set of figures, outside of the search space Google does not seem to have gained much traction at all. Yahoo Mail rules the roost with 42.4%, followed by Microsoft's Hotmail with 22.9%. By comparison, Google's Gmail does not rate, with just 2.54%A ComScore study also shows Google pulling away from its competitors in search.
Google also does not do well in online news or finance areas, where once again Yahoo wins out easily. In finance, Google, with just 0.29% share is absolutely dwarfed by Yahoo, which has 34.9%, with Microsoft's MSN providing at least respectable competition with 13.4% share. News is more fragmented but Google once again has just 1.9% share compared to Yahoo's 6.3%.
Posted on May 25, 2006
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PreFound Combines Search Results With Link Suggestions
Red Herring reports on an interesting new search engine called PreFound. PreFound combines search engine results with suggested links provided by PreFound users.
Then there's PreFound. The Lexington, Kentucky-based firm is looking to get the public's attention by coming up with a new way to search. The company's product is somewhat akin to search's answer to Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia. When someone types in a search term, the results pulled up by PreFound's engine include materials found on the web and posted by previous users.PreFound offers a revenue sharing program to motivate users to share links. PreFound also has a blog that keeps you up-to-date on new developments with the search engine.
A user searching for "sugar" on the PreFound site would pull up groups of links on the topic collected by people who had searched for the same term on the web as opposed to links simply generated through an algorithm.
PreFound appears to be an addition to the rapidly growing list of social web and search sites, which encourage users to rank and rate content based on relevance. The idea is rooted in the concept of a more democratic web that is shaped by the people that use it.
Posted on April 6, 2006
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Accoona Search Engine Debuts
PC Magazine reports that Accoona has raised $100 million to produce a search engine that can take on the search leaders. Accoona uses AI algorithms and is quite bold about the capability of its search engine.
AI algorithms analyze results and rank search results according to relevance to each specific user. Information is directly relevant to the search terms.Accoona lets users quickly change results from web search to news or business search. Accoona also has some great targeting options that let you limit the search results. One of the targeting options lets you show only webpages that have been updated recently -- options here include last hour, last 24 hours, last seven days and last 30 days.
"Accoona is modeled after the human brain, it's designed to think with you and for you," said Eckhard Pfeiffer, Accoona chairman and former Compaq president and CEO. "The next phase of the Internet is about finding, not searching. It's all about context."
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"Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning," Pfeiffer noted, quoting Winston Churchill. "Today we are making history."
With Wednesday's launch, Americans join millions of consumers in China that are already using their own version of the search tool. Accoona has secured an agreement with China Daily Information Company as the "preferred search engine portal across China for the next 20 years on an exclusive basis." China Daily was established in 1981 as the only national English-language newspaper distributed in China, according to its Web site.
Posted on March 13, 2006
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41% of Americans Use Search
News.com reports that a new Pew Internet study has found that the number of people using search engines has climbed rapidly from 30% to 41% since July, 2004.According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the number of U.S. Web users taking advantage of search engines has risen sharply since mid-2004--from 30 percent of the U.S. Web population in July 2004 to its current level of 41 percent, which translates to some 59 million Americans.Search is now the second most popular web activity. Email is still number one. The News.com article also cites a study that found Google dominates the search engine marketshare with 46% of the market. Yahoo is a dismal second with 23% of the marketshare.
The Pew project also found that those likely to spend more time on search engines tend to be in their 30s and well-off.
The report added, "Those who use search engines on an average day tend to be heavy Internet users. They are much more likely to have broadband connections than dial-up connections; to log on to the Internet several times a day; and to have spent considerable time online during the day."
Posted on November 29, 2005
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Gigablast Expands Index
Search Engine Watch (SEW) reports that Gigablast has expanded its index to over 44 million pages after adding another 2 million + webpages. Gigablast's site includes specialty blog and government searches. According to SEW the search engine also provides search results for Snap.com.Posted on August 15, 2005
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Search Engines Give Vastly Different Results
InternetNews.com reports that a new study by the multi-search tool Dogpile has found that each of the major search engines provides vastly different results. After running 12,570 queries through Yahoo, Google, MSN and Ask Jeeves and comparing the top results (page one results) Dogpile found that a mere 1.1% of the results could be found on all four search engines. 2.6% percent of the results were found on three different search engines and 11.4% were shared by two of the search engines. Yahoo had the most unique results of any of the four search engines."The top four search engines are very viable sources of information," said Brian Bowman, Infospace vice president of marketing and product management. "But they're vastly different on page one. And most people never go beyond page one."The theory suggest that using only one search engine for in-depth research may be a very bad idea since each of the search engines provides greatly different results.
Breaking those stats down by search engine, Google had the lowest percentage of unique results, at 66.4 percent. Yahoo, MSN and AskJeeves all were within 3.1 percent of each other, with Yahoo having the highest percentage of unique results at 71.2 percent.
Posted on August 5, 2005
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