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Baidu profits double as search engine dominates China

Local search engine Baidu has picked up Google’s losses in China’s search market - and then some. The leading Chinese-language search engine reported on Wednesday that its profits more than doubled in the last quarter, ending 30 June with net revenue of 837.4 million yuan (

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Navigational Queries: Bing 2 - 1 Google

Whenever search engines do something useful, we at bigmouthmedia like to shout about it. While making some navigational queries through the search engine , we were pleased to see how Bing has started pulling extra information from websites and including it in search results. Features include: Sitelinks Customer Service Numbers Site Search Here’s an example we cunningly spotted for high street retailer BHS . Rolling up to the 2010 World Cup, we have applied a football scoring system to the features. Ok, so Google may have ‘owned’ Sitelinks before Bing (0-1), but Bing’s use of the customer service number and site search is very innovative. Customer service numbers must be one of the most sought-after pieces of information from any website (especially retail sites), after the service offering itself (1-1). Google sometimes shows this information for maps, but not as effectively as Bing. Most importantly, bigmouthmedia loves the site search (or teleport as Google branded it), which takes users immediately into the search results of the desired website. Google looses out here, as it keeps you in Google’s own property (2-1).

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Navigational Queries: Bing 2 - 1 Google

Whenever search engines do something useful, we at bigmouthmedia like to shout about it. While making some navigational queries through the search engine , we were pleased to see how Bing has started pulling extra information from websites and including it in search results. Features include: Sitelinks Customer Service Numbers Site Search Here’s an example we cunningly spotted for high street retailer BHS . Rolling up to the 2010 World Cup, we have applied a football scoring system to the features. Ok, so Google may have ‘owned’ Sitelinks before Bing (0-1), but Bing’s use of the customer service number and site search is very innovative. Customer service numbers must be one of the most sought-after pieces of information from any website (especially retail sites), after the service offering itself (1-1). Google sometimes shows this information for maps, but not as effectively as Bing.

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Microsoft launches Bing TV ads in the UK

Microsoft has launched a new TV advertising campaign in the UK promoting its ‘decision engine’ Bing as an alternative to Google , by mocking the “information overload” that often accompanies its rival’s search results. The Guardian reports that the $2 billion (

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Microsoft’s Bing in talks with News Corp for exclusive content

Microsoft is revealed to be in early discussions with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to remove their news content from Google’s search engine and host them exclusively on Bing. If such a deal went ahead, it would be a landmark event in the history of the internet, which has thus far largely thrived on providing an open platform for consumers and businesses. If exclusive agreements are reached to omit content from certain search engines , customers are faced with a scenario that The New York Times likens to the model of cable TV subscription, as major companies compete for exclusive content and users have to pick sides.

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BBC improves search engine visibility

The BBC has changed the way it titles its stories in a bid to greater appease the search engines that bring much of its traffic to its pages. It is among a host of news agencies who now practise search engine optimisation in order to increase web presence. News editor Steve Herrmann says the decision is based on the vast number of visitors the site gets from the likes of search engines Google and Bing, stating that around 29% of the UK traffic comes through search engines

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Google and Bing on the rise as Yahoo! falls behind

The latest figures from comScore reveal that both Google and Microsoft are inching ahead in the US search engine rankings, with Yahoo! losing ground. Yahoo! is still holding on to second place, but its drop from 18.8 per cent in September to 18 per cent in October spells trouble for the company, despite previous news that its third quarter profits had exceeded expectations . Microsoft’s decision engine Bing rose from 9.4 to 9.9 per cent last month, as the Silicon Valley giant unveiled new social networking features , but still leader of the pack is Google , which achieved a 65.4 per cent market share - up from 64.9 per cent in September

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comScore reveals Google and Bing searches on the rise

The latest figures from research firm comScore have revealed minor growth for both Google and Microsoft search engines in the last month, while Facebook has achieved the highest online growth among social network searches in September. Computer Business Review reports that Google is still the search engine market leader by a clear head, as the Mountain View giant held 64.9 per cent of the market in September - accounting for approximately 9 billion searches - up from 64.6 per cent in August.

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KartOO search evolves

The innovative and quirky French search engine Kartoo has launched a re-designed search interface. Kartoo provides two basic search interfaces

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Bing provides haven for illegal drug suppliers

It has been claimed that Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is a haven for illegal businesses operating online pharmacies. An investigation reported by the Register revealed that almost 9 in 10 sponsored links advertising prescription drugs through Bing are in direct violation of US laws.

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