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Bing vs. Google: A Side by Side Showdown

June 5, 2009

ShareQ: How much does Bing suck? A: A lot!
A few days ago when Bing was released in preview, I wrote a post about giving Bing a shot at being my default search engine for a while.
I tried hard to give Bing a go. I tried to pry myself away from the warm, fuzzy satisfied feeling [...]

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How to make Bing your default search engine in Firefox and Chrome

June 1, 2009

ShareI read an interesting post the other day by someone explaining why they were changing their default search engine from Google to Yahoo. I can’t for the life of me remember where I read it because I would love to quote and attrubute it.  I very much identified with the point that the person was [...]

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Microsoft Launches Bing in Preview (not beta)

June 1, 2009

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Microsoft quietly rolled out its new search engine Bing.com last night. The unavoidable question for any new service like this is, “is this going to be a Google killer?” Obviously it’s too soon to make that sort of call, but you have to think that Microsoft is due to get something big right [...]

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How to: Specify your canonical to avoid duplicate content in WordPress

February 14, 2009

ShareIn a rare show of collaboration Google, Microsoft and Yahoo made a joint announcement on Thursday that that they would support a new Web standard that will allow millions of Web publishers to remove duplicate pages from their Web sites.
“There is a lot of clutter on the Web and with this, publishers will be able [...]

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Google Zeitgeist 2008

December 10, 2008

ShareThe ten fastest rising terms in 2008:

obama
facebook
att
iphone
youtube
fox news
palin
beijing 2008
david cook
surf the channel

Check out the entire breakdown here.

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Google Begins Tracking Flu Trends for CDC

November 11, 2008

ShareGoogle.org has started tracking flu trends across the entire country based on searches for flu-related topics:
We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Of course, not every person who searches for “flu” is actually sick, but a pattern emerges when all [...]

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