Microsoft > Microsoft: Internet Explorer
Jun. 6, 2008 at 10:30am by Danny Sullivan
Hey Firefox - Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine!
So Firefox 3 has a new release candidate making news, suggesting that the browser is nearly done. May I suggest that the browser is nowhere near being done until the Mozilla Foundation drops its favoritism to Google and allow users to pick their own default search engine? And that...
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Jun. 5, 2008 at 11:18am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Seeks To Bring Collaboration To Search
Microsoft has experimentally introduced "SearchTogether," which allows people to use a browser plug-in (IE7 only) to literally collaborate on search. You need a Windows Live ID and Messenger, but you can apparently use any search engine you like. Here's a tutorial and some screens....
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Nov. 12, 2007 at 10:09am by Barry Schwartz
Firefox: Google's Secret Weapon Against Microsoft?
Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox? from the New York Times asks if all the money Google is feeding Firefox going to hurt the browser and the community behind the browser in the future, by aligning the browser too closely with Google and its war against...
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May. 23, 2007 at 8:30am by Danny Sullivan
Google & Dell's Revenue-Generating URL Error Pages Drawing Fire
Last year, Google signed a landmark deal to become the default search engine on new Dell computers, plus to bundle Google software. Now, people are noting anew that a consequence of the deal seems to be pushing Dell users to search results dominated by Google ads, rather than editorial...
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Jan. 15, 2007 at 11:11am by Danny Sullivan
Microsoft Live & Yahoo Push For Firefox Users, Plus Revisiting The IE7 Search Battle
Today I noticed Live.com trying to get me to search with it in Firefox. Then Yahoo did the same thing. So I guess a new round of "let's change search defaults" is going on within Firefox. That seemed a good excuse for a revisit how the various search engines are...
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Dec. 12, 2006 at 10:09am by Danny Sullivan
AOL Has "Safest" Results & Free Results Safer Than Paid
A new survey from McAfee finds that AOL has the "safest" search results in terms of not listing sites that might be somehow be risky or unsafe for searchers. But most interesting to me was the fact paid results across the board were found far riskier than free, organic results....
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Dec. 12, 2006 at 6:57am by Danny Sullivan
Google Copies Yahoo's IE7 Page; Originality War Breaks Out!
Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!? from Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny makes a pretty damning case against Google for blatantly ripping off Yahoo's Internet Explorer 7 promo copy. Yahoo offers a custom version of IE7 via a pitch page you'll see here. Google appears to have launched its own pitch page yesterday, one...
