20 posts and columns on search engines

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Google’s Web Search Market Share Rises in April

in News on May 11 at 3:47 pm PT

Google Inc. slightly increased its leading market share among U.S. Internet-search engines last month, while Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine also gained market share, according to market researcher comScore Inc.

Bing and You’re Modeling Every Object on the Planet

We’re literally no longer indexing text. We’re trying to associate data that exists on the web in all forms with the physical object that spawned it in the first place.

– Bing director Stefan Weitz, in an interview with Fast Company’s E.B. Boyd

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Apple Plots Reboot of iTunes for Web

in News on December 10, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Apple Inc., the company that restructured the music industry around its iTunes service, is exploring an overhaul of the way it sells and stores music that is aimed at extending its influence to the Web, according to people briefed on the strategy.

AT&T Dead Last in Consumer Reports Survey

in Social on December 1, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

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Google Tries to Get Smarter, More Useful

in News on March 23, 2009 at 1:27 pm PT

Search engines are pretty good at finding Web pages closely related to exact terms users type in. They’ve had less success finding results that are conceptually related to what a user is looking for. For instance, a search for “abstract expressionism” may have missed certain results for the related artistic movement “surrealism.”