Search engines have become the home page for most Internet users. Search engines scan, or crawl, the entire Internet and index the information they find at massive data centers, ranking pages for relevance and quality. Search engine companies fund themselves primarily by serving advertisements on search results pages, based on the term searched upon. Google dominates the search engine market, but Microsoft, Yahoo and other niche players are jockeying for position in the multi-billion-dollar market.
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How Anonymous Do Businesses Need to Be?
If you remember one thing, let it be that nothing your company does online is anonymous, no matter how hard you try to hide. When word got out in 2006 that AOL had released "massive amounts" of user search data , it served as a reminder to many that nothing one does online is truly anonymous.... More >
Surfing the Internet: Not an Anonymous Sport
Lora Bentley spoke with Lance Cottrell, chief scientist at Anonymizer . Bentley : Why is a company like Anonymizer needed? Cottrell : In the very early days of the Internet, it became clear to me just how much information capture was happening. The Internet was designed in sort of a... More >
Tool Promises to Cut IT's Work by Giving End Users Better Data Access
Loraine Lawson spoke with Robert Eve, vice president of marketing for Composite Software , about a concept he calls the next step in data integration – data discovery. He explains how a new tool, Composite Discovery, uses this concept to give end users better access to raw data. Lawson : In... More >
Lowering Your IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
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Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual Experience
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Google, Bing Gain in October Search Market
There were two records in comScore's October numbers for U.S. search traffic , according to TechFlash . Google's market share rose to 65.4 percent and Yahoo's share fell to 18 percent. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Bing captured 9.9 percent of the market, up half a percentage point from September. TechFlash and ... More >
Microsoft Removes Beta Tag from UK Version of Bing Site
On the heels of announcing new features to its Bing search engine , Microsoft has removed the beta tag and officially launched Bing in the UK. Despite being made official, the UK version of Bing lacks many of the fixings that comprise the U.S. version of the search engine. The official launch of the UK site means... More >
Google Search Primed for Caffeine Injection
Microsoft recently added new features and has enlisted Wolfram Alpha to enhance its Bing search engine . Meanwhile, reigning search giant Google plans perk up its search engine as well with an injection of Caffeine , which was first revealed in August. Caffeine won't change the general look of Google's search... More >
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