Microsoft’s Bing Vs Google: Head To Head Search Results

May 28, 2009 at 11:29am ET by Greg Sterling

Let's just get it out of the way: no, Bing is not a "Google Killer." It's also safe to say that Microsoft doesn't see it that way either. My understanding of what Microsoft believes it has in Bing is a much more competitive product than Live Search. I entirely agree. Over the course of the next two or three weeks there will be countless articles and blog posts discussing Bing and whether or not it can dethrone Google. Microsoft has told me that the company sees Bing as a start (or restart) and that improvements will continue to roll out over time. One can be skeptical of that position or no [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Marketing, Microsoft: Other Search, Top News

Microsoft Demo Fest Shows Off New Ideas, Reporter Not Impressed

Mar 19, 2009 at 1:19pm ET by Matt McGee

Last month, Microsoft researchers from around the world showed off some of their most unique creations at the company's TechFest 2009 event in Redmond. This month, a smaller group of Microsoft researchers took part in the 5th "Demo Fest" event -- a smaller event that's designed for researchers from adCenter Labs to show off their latest ideas. The company let reporters in on Wednesday to see four of the new Demo Fest technologies, and the Seattle Times' writer was not impressed. "The demos I saw were not jaw-dropping. The concepts seemed to echo things we'd seen elsewhere or things I w [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Other Search

Microsoft’s TechFest 2009 Is A Search Playground

Feb 25, 2009 at 12:42pm ET by Matt McGee

Hundreds of Microsoft researchers from around the world gathered at company headquarters in Redmond this week for TechFest 2009, a chance to share ideas and show off their latest creations. Although Microsoft emphasizes that there are no plans to bring any of this technology into Live Search, some of the interesting ideas were featured this week on the Live Search blog. Here are two that caught my eye: Opinion Search Microsoft's existing Opinion Index in Live Search was built from this technology, but the version demoed at TechFest takes the collection, storage, and organization [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Other Search

Will the “Deep Web” Slay Google?

Feb 23, 2009 at 8:27am ET by Greg Sterling

There are arguably two parallel tracks in the "what will succeed Google?" meme. An emerging one is "will the feds intervene to block Google?" The second is much older and involves the hypothetical "semantic web" or sometimes "deep web." Essentially this asks, "who will do search better than Google?" (A third line of argument might surround "social search.") Two pieces in two days in the NY Times reflect the two former strands. The first article is Everyone Loves Google, Until It’s Too Big and picks up on the monopoly discussion. I responded over the weekend on my personal blog Screenwerk. [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: General, Google: Legal, Google: Other, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Other Search, Search Engines: Powerset, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Top News, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: User Interface

Dilbert’s Scott Adams: Will Google Replace Your Doctor?

Dec 8, 2008 at 3:24pm ET by Matt McGee

Can a search engine accurately diagnose health problems? Can it someday replace your doctor? Questions like this aren't new, but the discussion has gotten a bit louder in recent weeks. Just a couple weeks ago, I reported on a Microsoft investigation of cyberchondria, when inaccurate medical information online makes actual health problems worse. On Friday, Dilbert cartoon creator Scott Adams shared a different point of view, telling blog readers how Google helped him find treatment for a speech defect known as Spasmodic Dysphonia. More specifically, Adams was using Google Alerts to get i [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Alerts, Google: Health, Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Other, Microsoft: Other Search, Search & Society: General, Search Engines: Health & Medical Search Engines, Top News

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