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October 1, 2009 |
Threats on the Horizon Despite many well-publicized failures of would-be Google killers, fresh combatants keep coming. Here are some of the most prominent.   |
InternetNews
August 17, 2009 |
WolframAlpha Bets on Standing Out From the Pack WolframAlpha takes a different route than the big names, leveraging data sources like the Xignite financial system to focus on presenting precise answers. But does the approach have staying power? |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2009
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Betting on the Real-Time Web No one knows how the microblogging site Twitter and similar online social networks will make money, but investors see a new Web revolution. |
BusinessWeek
October 1, 2009
Robert D. Hof |
Can Google Stay on Top of the Web? As Bing, Facebook, Twitter, and less well-known upstarts nip at its heels, Google has hundreds of wizards racing to come up with smarter answers. |
Information Today
October 8, 2007
Greg R. Notess |
Microsoft and Yahoo! Update Search In the evolution of Web searching, 2007 has become the year of multimedia integration, as major Web search engines have incorporated images and videos into the results for some searches. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Google Continues to Prove the Pessimists Wrong With plenty of hard problems left to solve, Google will keep growing for many years. |
InternetNews
February 12, 2010 |
Google Goes More Social With Aardvark Buy In purchasing Aardvark, Google looks to extend its social media reach with a service that taps into the knowledge of the online community for answers. What do competitors say? |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2009
Tim Beyers |
What Kumo Must Do to Beat Google Microsoft will next week make public the next-generation version of its Live Search engine, code-named "Kumo." |
Search Engine Watch
May 4, 2010
Eric Enge |
Google Killer? Enough Already! All of the prospective "Google killers" have had something to offer, but none of them are near replacing Google. Here's why. |
BusinessWeek
March 4, 2009
Green & Hof |
Twitter Has Potential Buyers Atwitter As the microblogging service explodes in popularity, the suitors are lining up. Facebook has already made a play -- others will likely follow. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Steals Some Answers Google is apparently gearing up to relaunch its Google Answers; this time the Q&A offering will feel a lot more like Yahoo! Answers. |
BusinessWeek
February 20, 2006
Ben Elgin |
A Search Engine For Every Subject Google and Yahoo rule, but a flock of upstarts is attempting to infuse human preferences into computer algorithms to pinpoint relevant information better. |
InternetNews
May 13, 2009
David Needle |
Google's Mayer: 'We Don't Dominate Search' Search guru Danny Sullivan says Google's latest moves are 'incremental, but useful.' |
Search Engine Watch
March 27, 2009
Frank Watson |
Does Twitter Reflect a Change in How We Search? Google will always be a major presence on the Web, and the place to go for certain types of information. When once we looked to the engines for all quick finds of needed information, we're now getting some of that from the global village of social media. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2007
Catherine Holahan |
Searching For John Q. Public New people-search engines hope to do better than Google in finding the less-than-famous. Spock is one of dozens of niche search companies trying to capture some of the more than $60 billion that is projected to be spent on search marketing over the next four years. |
Search Engine Watch
October 19, 2006
Brian Smith |
A Closer Look At Microsoft's Instant Answers A look at Microsoft's Live.com's Instant Answers. |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Extreme Makeover: Google Edition Google hopes you like its new nose job. There's real money at stake, after all. |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2010
Tim Beyers |
50 Million Reasons to Buy Google Its purchase of Aardvark is more disruptive than you think. |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Steven Levy |
Steven Levy on the Answer Engine, a Radical New Formula for Web Search The home page is nearly blank. At the center, just below a colorful logo, you'll find an empty data field. Type in a phrase, hit Return, and knowledge appears. No, it's not Google. It's Wolfram|Alpha |
InternetNews
November 11, 2009 |
Microsoft Soups Up Bing With WolframAlpha Data First big Bing update sees data-sharing pact, new video features. |
Search Engine Watch
October 10, 2006
Brian Smith |
A Closer Look at Ask's Smart Answers Ask.com has truly differentiated itself with the "Smart Answers" it returns for thousands of queries, offering facts, images and targeted links that respond directly to a searcher's information need. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2010
Douglas MacMillan |
Twitter's Redesign Ruffles Some Developers' Feathers Twitter grew partly by relying on outside developers. As its features increase, however, it is competing with some of those developers. |
InternetNews
December 2, 2009 |
Ask.com Reveals Top Ten Questions of 2009 Who knew so many folks go to Web to find out what time it is? But other top queries are a bit more thoughtful. |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google, Just Buy Twitter Already What is the search giant waiting for? The Twitter clock is ticking! |
