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Bing no longer a search-engine blip

Submitted by Bibliofuture on June 1, 2015 - 1:53pm

By one measure, the search engine now executes a record one out of every five searches made on desktop computers in the US, a milestone Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella touted last month in a meeting with Wall Street analysts. But Bing’s standing internationally, and in fast-growing mobile search, is a fraction of that.

Still, executives and outside observers say Bing has gone from the butt of jokes and awkward product placement in movies to a tool comparable to Google’s in terms of its technology. The calls to shelve the business or sell it to a competitor have quieted. Microsoft has integrated Bing’s underlying data-crunching technology into its other software, and plans to tie it closely to its upcoming Windows 10 operating system.

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/bing-no-longer-a-search-engine-blip/

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Firefox dumps Google for Yahoo as default search engine

Submitted by Bibliofuture on November 20, 2014 - 10:30am

Yahoo is replacing Google as the default search engine for Mozilla's Firefox browser, the companies announced late Wednesday. With 10% of the market, it is the Internet's third most popular search engine, behind Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Bing (which powers Yahoo searches).

The change is significant for Firefox users, who perform some 100 million searches in the browser every year, according to Mozilla.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/20/technology/firefox-mozilla-google-yahoo/index.html

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Another Q&A App Launches. U Jelly?

Submitted by John on January 8, 2014 - 11:59am

Jelly is a new app that lets you share pictures of objects you cannot identify. People you know are then asked to identify the objects for you. Is this an inefficient, narcissism-enabling way of obtaining information, or yet another revolutionary killer app? At what point should your library get on board?

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DuckDuckGo Benefits From Internet Searchers Wanting Privacy

Submitted by Bibliofuture on June 24, 2013 - 9:11am

Online search engines that protect users' privacy are seeing a spike in traffic after the NSA surveillance revelations. DuckDuckGo, which does not track users at all, says it's seen record-breaking traffic.

Listen to story here.

See search engine -- https://duckduckgo.com/

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Can a small search engine take on Google?

Submitted by Bibliofuture on April 16, 2013 - 11:20pm

Duck Duck Go is a small search engine based in Pennsylvania that is, according to Google at least, a Google competitor. OTM producer Chris Neary talks with Duck Duck Go founder Gabriel Weinberg, SearchEngineLand's Danny Sullivan, and a dedicated Duck Duck Go user about the site. Also, each of the OTM producers try Duck Duck Go, and only Duck Duck Go, for a week.

Full piece:On The Media

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Sabbatical in Guatemala? Asturias Academy Seeking a School Librarian

Submitted by LibrariansWitho... on January 28, 2013 - 12:47am
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<p>The Asturias Academy in Quetzaltanango, Guatemala is looking for a School Librarian for the 2013 academic year. The ideal candidate has Spanish language skills and experience/interest in school librarianship. This is a volunteer position. A stipend of up to $2400 is available to the successful candidate to help cover living costs in Guatemala, provided by Librarians Without Borders (www.librarianswithoutborders.org).

Power Searching with Google

Submitted by Anonymous Patron (not verified) on June 26, 2012 - 2:26pm
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Google is offering a "community-based course" on <a href="http://www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/powersearching.html">Power Searching with Google</a>. At this point, it's unclear exactly how advanced the course will be.

So now Google is the expert on information literacy?

Submitted by Bibliofuture on May 23, 2012 - 9:30am

A friend sent me this article. The subject line of their email was - So now Google is the expert on information literacy?

Update: ‘Google Search Education’ (Chronicle of Higher Education)

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A Revamping of Bing in the Battle for Search Engine Supremacy

Submitted by Bibliofuture on May 11, 2012 - 11:00am

A Microsoft-Facebook alliance plans an overhaul of Bing in an effort to loosen Google’s grip on the search engine market.

Full article

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Google Changes Search Algorithm, Trying to Make Results More Timely

Submitted by Bibliofuture on November 6, 2011 - 9:20pm

Acknowledging that some searches were giving people stale results, Google revised its methods on Thursday to make the answers timelier. It is one of the biggest tweaks to Google’s search algorithm, affecting about 35 percent of all searches.

The new algorithm is a recognition that Google, whose dominance depends on providing the most useful results, is being increasingly challenged by services like Twitter and Facebook, which have trained people to expect constant updates with seconds-old news.

It is also a reflection of how people use the Web as a real-time news feed — that if, for example, you search for a baseball score, you probably want to find the score of a game being played at the moment, not last week, which is what Google often gave you.

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