Posts Tagged with ‘search-engines’

Ask search engine is quite famous for its constant overhauls in continuous attempts to please users and increase its rather small market share when compared to search giants like Google or Yahoo (according to comScore with its 4.8% it is now number 4 in the US after Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft).
The latest attempt of such a redesign was Ask3D back in June 2007 which showed results in three columns instead of a traditional long list of links. One of the [...]

Normally people use social bookmarking services like Delicious or Ma.gnolia to bookmark pages that they find interesting and to demonstrate their support to website owners by acknowledging that they find their content useful.
People also import their bookmarks from browsers to social bookmarking sites to keep them as a backup which can be useful if something unexpected happens to your browser. But there are some pages bookmarked that are simply beyond my understanding. Like when you want to do a search [...]

A semantic search engine Quintura has announced today that they have drawn “several million dollars” of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners, a European investor specializing in financing early-stage startups (it was the one to discover and fund Skype, for example).
This is not the first investment in Quintura for Mangrove - it was also the one behind Quintura’s seed funding in November 2006 as well as behind the series A round in June 2007.
The funding arrives as a part of the [...]

It is invariably funny to watch people’s reaction when I mention that in addition to having a Russian name I actually happen to work from Russia. People seem to actually want to ask if we actually have any broadband connection here. I believe this is the same for many people outside of the US working in the social media blogging or launching their own startups. And this is why I actually have to admit I am a bit internationally biased [...]

Recently I have noticed an interesting thing in the traffic stats for Profy. Specifically I have started to notice people arriving from Google (mostly) and some other search engines after they do a search for a single word - “internet”. And since I always find it amusing when people google “Google” to get the same link they are actually on (and yes, Google is quite a popular search term) I thought that googling “internet” was equally amusing. After all, what [...]

It seems that everyone has already grown accustomed to the idea of search engines market completely dominated by Google. But at the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Search, Portal and Advertising Platform Group, has made a statement showing that at least the software giant sees a possibility to change the situation. And the change is in the field of better user experience based on behavioral targeting and semantic search technologies. Currently the [...]

Yesterday evening a new search engine was launched by a group of search experts (including two ex-Googlers) - Cuil is the name and the blogosphere is abuzz about weather it will kill Google. Honestly, I can never understand why we constantly expect every single new product to kill something that is strong in the particular niche already. Normally I hate that type of post titles - they sound to me like BMW is a Mercedes killer. And [...]

Today we have another proof that Google intends to control internet advertising in any way that it can. Today we are witnessing another acquisition by the global search giant - this time it's the largest contextual advertising company in Russia, Begun.
Begun is currently owned by Rambler, one of the major providers of various internet services to Russian users. Rambler is also one of the best known search engines in Russia as well with its third position in [...]

By now, most of us have heard about the global warming crisis that is endangering the planet. Al Gore spoke on the topic in the phenomenally popular documentary An Inconvenient Truth, and you can even find several sites across the web (even a blog) out to educate the world about the issue and how it takes each of us individually to commit to changing our lifestyles to make a difference. The problem there, though, is that most people fear change [...]