Archives Tag: Google Competition
Microsoft Struggling to Stay Alive
Microsoft is simply acting in desparation now to keep Internet Explorer alive. Chrome? Pfft, forget Chrome! Microsoft thinks that Chrome is “tarnished … so get rid of it or get lost”! Here is Microsoft’s latest marketing push for Internet Explorer. Incoming search terms:microsoft struggling?
Full StoryPC World Thinks Google Apps Will Never “Catch On”
After reading this article from PC World, written by Preston Gralla, I have to say they sound really stupid. Let’s take a look at a little excerpt from the article which is really the core of the accusasion. In fact, Google Apps isn’t even as popular as the free OpenOffice.org. In “Study: OpenOffice five times [...]
Full StoryYahoo! Offers Comprehensive People Search
Something I hadn’t ever noticed before is that Yahoo! offers very comprehensive “people search.” I say that in loosely and in the context of helping a visitor that is searching, find exactly what they are looking for. Here are a couple sample queries. First, my name, “jonathan dingman” So this search displays other results above [...]
Full StoryYahoo! Loves YouTube
As we already know, Google loves to include YouTube videos in the search results whenever possible it seems relevant. But something I noticed today, Yahoo! is also doing that. Here is a quick look at how Yahoo! is doing it. I want to think that Yahoo! would be sending traffic to their own properties, since [...]
Full StoryScoutJet, Another Google Competitor
Here is a quick blip of what their website outlines, The part I think is important is the fist line, “ScoutJet is the web crawler for a new Silicon Valley based search engine company created by the founders of DMOZ and Topix.” In short, the new search engine looks like it may be a topical [...]
Full StoryAdobe to Compete with Online Tools Suite
Last night, Adobe Systems Inc. launched a new suite of online productivity tools on their Acrobat.com property. The first of those tools is called Buzzword. After logging in, this tool is a fairly basis document editor, such as Microsoft Word (for desktop) or Google Docs (online). Here is an example of what it looks like. [...]
Full StoryYahoo Landing Pages for “Natural” Results
Yahoo! Search has some weird landing pages for their natural results. Let’s take a look at the search query of “dedicated servers.” Alright, so Yahoo! ranks Aplus.net as the first hit for natural results for the term “dedicated servers” — nothing special about that, but let’s see where it leads to. Let’s take a look [...]
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