Responding to privacy concerns from groups regarding the length of time and amount of information that search engines store on users, Microsoft announced that it will remove the IP addresses associated with Bing searches after six months. User data from Bing searches had previously been saved by Microsoft for 18 months. Microsoft has agreed to […]
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Real-time search is getting bigger everyday with two search engine heavyweights Google and Bing vying for top dog in the fast-moving real-time search space. Bing has launched a real-time search service that returns results based on Twitter and Facebook popularity. Bing’s real-time search shows a search tag cloud which displays current popular search terms from […]
The real-time search wars are getting bigger each day — Twitter is reportedly in separate negotiations with both Google and Microsoft to supply their social network’s huge amount of real-time tweet data to the two big search engines. Sources state that the deals would include a license of Twitter’s complete tweet feed and using it […]
The rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter, with their constant streams of fresh user updates have given rise to a new type of web search engine that is challenging Google’s dominance in the area of internet search – the real-time search engine. According to a recent Wired.com article, the internet is changing rapidly […]
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The latest search engine statistics from StatCounter show Microsoft’s Bing search engine losing US market share to Google search. Bing dropped 1.17 percent to 8.47 percent in September from a peak 9.64 percent share that Bing had in August. However, Google’s search engine market share in the US rose from 77.83 percent in August to […]