Microsoft IE8 Browser Seeks To ‘Accelerate’ Searching, Yahoo Adds ‘Visual Shortcuts’ To Search Box

Mar 20, 2009 at 12:22pm ET by Greg Sterling

Microsoft's new browser IE 8 is now in general release. There are loads of features, which I won't go into at length. Danny did a preliminary overview of the search and ad-related features of IE8 already, which I'm sure he'll revisit at some point. And the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg offers a generally favorable review, but has some complaints about speed. The two things I'm going to discuss in this post are Microsoft's "Live Search Accelerators" and Yahoo's new "visual search shortcuts." Live Search Accelerators perform a range of functions, searches or lookups on, for example, [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Internet Explorer, Yahoo: Shortcuts

10 Key Features That Differentiate Google’s Chrome From Firefox & IE

Sep 3, 2008 at 1:01pm ET by Eli Feldblum

Google's has released its own open-source browser, Chrome, in direct competition to Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Yesterday, Danny described his test-drive of Chrome in Searching With Google Chrome & Omnibox and Greg speculated on its future in How Bright Is The Outlook For Chrome?. Both compared Google's new browser to the incumbents, Firefox and Internet Explorer. But Chrome is actually very different from those two browsers, and significantly different from nearly everything else on the market. Here are the 10 major features that truly differentiate Google Chrome from the competi [...]

Filed in: Features: General, Google: Chrome, Microsoft: Internet Explorer

Search & Internet Explorer 8

Aug 27, 2008 at 10:40pm ET by Danny Sullivan

After finally getting the new Internet Explorer 8 beta installed (demands to upgrade Windows, verify Windows, sigh), I spent some time playing with the new search functionality and checking to see if Microsoft was going to try to stack the deck in its favor with the new browser. So far, it remains pretty even handed. Indeed, so far, Microsoft seems kind of lame given that there are some cool search features you're hard pressed to locate. Let's take a tour. After installing the software, I'm asked if I want to use "Express Settings" or to make active choices: Notice that Live Sear [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Internet Explorer, Toolbars & Add-Ons, Top News

Hey Firefox – Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine!

Jun 6, 2008 at 10:30am ET by Danny Sullivan

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 Microsoft ought to be among those choices? Seriously, the entire Firefox+Google love fest is a joke. Let's revisit a little history here. Google fought and fought to pressure Microsoft so that no search provider was the default in Internet Explorer 7, arguing this was the best for consumer choice: "The m [...]

Filed in: Google: Marketing, Google: Partnerships, Microsoft: Internet Explorer, Microsoft: Marketing, Microsoft: Partnerships, Toolbars & Add-Ons: Firefox Browser

Microsoft Seeks To Bring Collaboration To Search

Jun 5, 2008 at 11:18am ET by Greg Sterling

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. I haven't used it so I can't report on the experience. Conceptually, however, I could imagine that in many use cases (e.g., Travel and Local Search) this could be highly valuable as an option. Microsoft Messenger has had collaboration capabilities around local search and Live Maps for some time, but they're littl [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Internet Explorer, Search 4.0

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