Microsoft Snatches Dell Deal from Google for Default Search Engines, At Last, At least Something!

November 10th, 2006 Opera Browser is the best in terms of search engine integration. It allows you to easily add your own search engines, access search engines by a single alphabet and finally set any search engine as the default.

February 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - In a rare instance of collaboration among otherwise fierce rivals, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft said they would support a new web standard that will allow millions of publishers to remove duplicate pages from their websites. As a result, search engines would be able to make their search results more comprehensive.

May 19th, 2009 Google retains its top slot in the search engine market being the destination for largest number of web surfers in April. According to the recent data released by comSourceThe searchers throughout the month touched the 9.5 billion mark.

July 7th, 2006 Google has passed Microsoft in popularity since beginning of 2005. What is even more surprising is their rate of growth and slow decline of Microsoft.

June 20th, 2009 Microsoft isn't too busy with Bing to put its decade-old portal site MSN out of focus. The software giant is working on a revamp for MSN.

October 23rd, 2005 After my ill-fated attempt to use latest version of Yahoo Instant Messenger (The Malware), I manually removed all traces of Yahoo Instant Messenger from my system. One thing however persisted - their search engine plugin for Firefox.

November 18th, 2007 By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I'm Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above.

August 9th, 2006 Recently AOL released 20 million web search queries, over a period of three months, from 650, 000 AOL search engine users. The data anonymizes user identity by assigning them numerical id.

August 23rd, 2006 Search engines like Google often fetch your site description from ODP (Open Directory Project) description instead of fetching it from the site content or meta-tags. This may not always be desirable as it may not represent your site properly.

May 20th, 2009 With Google retaining its top slot in the search engines market, Microsoft is trying to set its foot with new Live Search property. Microsoft's new face of Live Search, Kumo will be released at the D: All Things Digital conference, to be held in Carlsbad, Calif.

November 10th, 2006 You can easily create your own search engines and even assign keywords to them in a minute or so. This mini-tutorial will show you how you can add any WordPress blogs search as one of your search engines.

August 8th, 2006 Google has reached a deal with the owner of MySpace.com (News Corp.) to pay at least $900-million in shared advertising revenue and become the exclusive search provider for the popular online hangout. The deal, which marries the Internet's leading search engine with the top social-networking site, means News Corp.

April 17th, 2008 The pressure of one unholy alliance (Microsoft + Yahoo) may lead to another (Google + Yahoo). According to WSJ: Yahoo is closer to outsourcing its core ad search business to Google, after favorable testing of Google's advertisements on its search pages, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

February 13th, 2009 Microsoft and Dell have joined hand in hand for a project called PRODUCT RED in order to help Africa fight AIDS. Such a noble venture needs your contribution as well.

July 9th, 2006 Nowadays it is common to complain about the accuracy of Google web search results (not image search as I have done in my earlier post). Most of the people complaining about Google web search are SEO types and those who have been affected by sudden lack of Google love.