i spy with my little search engine

or big search engines… Monitoring the online conversation just got easier as both Bing and Google have penned deals with Twitter allowing the search giants to mine Tweets for their search results. What does this mean for you?  Real time twitter results for Google and Bing search queries are on the horizon. Vanity searches are [...]

Sorry Google Fans…5 Reasons to Switch to Bing!

Scoops and Devil’s Advocate Here. For the sake of neutrality and fairness. I will have to put my love for Google aside and discuss the reasons why many are taking the plunge with Bing. This is not all too surprising see that  Nielsen reports shows that it currently holds 10.7% of the search market (to [...]

Google Buys Web Video Software Firm

Google, on Wednesday, anounced that it has agreed to buy On2 Technologies, which sells video compression software, in a stock deal valued at about $106 million. The per-share price was 57 percent above On2’s closing stock price on Tuesday, and On2’s shares soared on the news. Similar to Google’s 2006 acquisition of YouTube at a [...]

Did Yahoo Get The Short End of The Stick?

It’s what many are asking – and even more are asserting. Did Yahoo get the lesser end of its merger deal with Microsoft? After experiencing a 12% on Wednesday and then another 3.57% on Thursday Yahoo stock Closed at around just $14 a share. Most attribute the incline to investor’s shared perception that Yahoo was [...]

If you can’t beat ‘em, join your next biggest Compeditor, THEN beat ‘em!

In an industry dominated by one company – Google, trying to take some of that market share from the heavy hitter is not always as easy as it may seem. After Microsoft’s failed attempt at buying Yahoo’s search engine for a reported 47.5 Billion dollars, the two have decided to create a partnership that will [...]

IE is to Windows as Google Crome is to Google OS.

Thats right. Google has officially announced that it has plans to jump on the operating system band wagon that Microsoft had been able to ride and steer since the commodification of the PC it self. The software, which will be called Google Chrome Operating System, will likely be pre-released later this year and as a [...]

How well do you know Google?

Ever since its 1998 launch, Google has become something like an online library- A really cool library, that does not smell funny, and doesn’t make you get a membership card or pay late fees. Anything you need or want, Google has. It is so easy to use and find what you are looking for, no [...]

Bing that, I’ll stick with Google.

Thats exactly what many predict will be said by the loads of Google users entering over 30 billion search requests a year. Bing, Microsoft’s new “revolutionary” search engine, doesn’t directly say it, but basically wants to give Google (and the other heavy hitters) a run for it’s money. So whats Microsoft’s Pitch? The feel Bing [...]

Bing: You better be really, really awesome.

So Microsoft is Launching “Bing”, a search engine competitor to google and if Microsoft wants to win us over here is a top 5 list of what “Bing” should do…

Scoops Kristin…a Narcissist?

Scoops  Here. According to a team of Swiss and Austrailian social scientists, I am an alleged egosurfer…but unlike most who will not admit it, I plead guilty, but with probable cause. Just like in this post by TIME online, I just want to know what’s out there on me. Not to see how cool I [...]

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