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Verizon to include Microsoft Live Search on phones

ITworld staff — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:43:34 -0500

Microsoft has struck a five-year deal with Verizon to pre-install its Live Search as the default search engine on all phones sold in the U.S.

Google determines correlation between cookies, dieting

abennett — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:23:48 -0500

A stunning, completely unanticipated revelation: once a year, sometime in mid-December, Google searches on the word "cookies" spike. Almost immediately afterwards, there's a spike in searches for the word "diet."

2008: Yahoo's year to forget

ITworld staff — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:13:44 -0500

For Jerry Yang, 2008 was going to be the year when Yahoo's long-awaited technology and business turnaround began in earnest. Instead, the year brought two big rounds of layoffs, an embarrassing exodus of high-profile managers, disappointing financials, a tanking stock price, free-falling employee morale and little or no advances in key areas, like search usage and search advertising. Oh yeah, and yet another corporate reorganization that many cynically viewed as more spinning of the wheels.

Another online executive leaves Microsoft

ITworld staff — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:24:41 -0500

As the year comes to a close, Microsoft is losing yet another executive in its online business -- Brad Goldberg, general manager of Live Search.

Yahoo to scrub personal data after three months

ITworld staff — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:15:41 -0500

Yahoo said Wednesday it will anonymize most of the data it collects about people's Web searches after three months, a move that puts further pressure on competitors Google and Microsoft to do the same.

Microsoft may use 'Kumo' name for more than search

ITworld staff — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:28:06 -0500

A trademark application Microsoft filed earlier this month suggests the company may use the "Kumo" name for more than just its search engine.

Microsoft revising 'us vs. them' attitude toward open source

ITworld staff — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:28:58 -0500

When Microsoft completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based startup Powerset in July, it acquired more than just search-engine technology. In the HBase component of Powerset's product, Microsoft also acquired open-source code that is actively being redistributed back into the Apache Software Foundation's Hadoop project.

Report: Ballmer says Yahoo deal better 'sooner than later'

ITworld staff — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:53:54 -0500

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says -- yet again -- that a deal to buy Yahoo makes sense for both companies and it's better sooner than later.

Finding the right search solution

ITworld staff — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:35:11 -0500

Given the slew of search tools on the market, how can you find the appropriate one? There are three things you need to consider: connectivity, effort, and scalability.

Search Engine Optimization for Your Web Site

ITworld staff — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:18:30 -0500

No one knows exactly what combination of tactics will maximize a Web site's ranking in search results, but a lot of smart people have developed some good approximations based on history and empirical evidence. Here, three experts offer the tips and tricks someone just starting out in the SEO game ought to know.