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Bing Finds More Market Share in Second Week of Searching

Bing's second-week scores are in, and the bigwigs in Redmond must be smiling. Numbers released from ComScore today show that Bing gained nearly another full percentage point of market share in its second full week on the Web, ...READ»

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Facebook's New Search Feature Reminds Us of Twitter

Last night Facebook announced a new search feature that it's testing on "just a fraction of a percent of the people on Facebook" that allows users to search their News Feeds for the most recent status updates, notes, links, videos, ...READ»

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How to Kill Your Addiction to Google Search and Get More Productive

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion about climate change where former Vice President Al Gore referred to the United States as an oil "junkie." At the time, it occurred to me that Americans have another ...READ»

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Have Questions? Hunch Has Answers (And a Few More Questions)

Are you more likely to spoon or to be spooned? Are alien abductions fake or real? How good are you at catching fly balls? Hunch.com wants to know, not for its own benefit, but for yours. Launched today, Hunch helps users find ...READ»

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Nova Spivack's Twine Is Red-Hot

Nova Spivack's red-hot site, Twine, uses artificial intelligence to find and store Web info.READ»

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Too Many Social Network Updates? Two Tools for Filtering the Nobodies

There are plenty of tools out there for adding "friends" to your social network: Glue lets you connect with others who like the same media and entertainment sites as you, Twinkle lets you discover people tweeting near you, ...READ»

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Twitter Gold Rush is On

Twitter account name are functioning like domain names that show up in Twitter search results. Is Twitter morphing into a Google-like search tool for consumers?READ»

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Wolfram Alpha Isn't Google, so Stop Comparing Them

Stephen Wolfram's new knowledge engine, Wolfram Alpha goes live today, providing a new kind of search for Internet users. As a result, the Internets are alive with comments about how Alpha compares to Google. But that's something ...READ»

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Google Unveils New Search Powers, Speeds Towards Live Data

Google unveiled a suite of new functions for its search engine yesterday, and there's some evidence that the company is chasing down live data for its search query responses. There's also a new functionality that seems designed to ...READ»

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Twitter to Take Real-Time Search to the Next Level

Twitter has some very interesting plans for its newly-unveiled live search function: soon it will activate crawlers that will index the links users include in their Tweets. In one fell swoop that turns Twitter into an even more ...READ»

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Live Search Makes Twitter Even More Relevant

In its battle for success, Twitter just made what looks like a minor change, but it could actually transform the lifecasting networking site in terms of increased relevance, and also turn it into a very powerful tool. The ...READ»

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Google Brings Location-Based Search to Your PC

Google has made GPS-based search for mobile phones a reality, but what if you want to search near the location of your computer? Just last week, the company's Toolbar team answered the question by announcing a "My ...READ»

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Skip Google, and Try These Search Engines

If Google had a dollar for every competitor that was hyped to defeat it, the search giant would be worth a hundred billion. And well, it is. Live Search, Cuil, Mahalo, whatever--Google only feels luckier as the field grows. ...READ»

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Google Bombing and the IRS

It's tax time, and many of us will heed the IRS' suggestion to download forms and file electronically. But as I learned, malicious black hat hackers have hijacked Google's IRS search results to deliver nasty malware. Here’s how. READ»

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Yahoo Uses Twitter to Filter News

In a perfect convergence of media and technology, Yahoo! is now using Twitter to filter news according to Technology Review. I've written before in this blog about the impact of Twitter in reporting news first. And as reported in ...READ»

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Visible.net Yahoo Videos - Online Video Commercials

Yahoo Videos by Visible.net Assortment of videos produced by Visible.net on Yahoo... Get A Bag LandR Promotional Items Abigails Herbals Sports Banners Pennants Kates Kosy Korner (Bedding) Kates Kosy Korner (Blankets) Candys ...READ»

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ChaCha's Mobile Text Search on AT&T One-Ups Google's

ChaCha's text search for mobile is set to debut on AT&T, and while the kinks definitely need working out its results are superior to Google's similar service. But it'll never replace texting your friends.READ»

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Why Google's Best New Feature Is Evil

How the experimental SearchWiki is both helping and hurting us.READ»

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People-Powered Internet Grows Up

On today's Internet, algorithms rule. But a handful of startups are using large-scale human participation to offer online services that computers alone can't deliver. Can human judgment scale with the Web?READ»

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Visible.net YouTube Videos - Online Video Commercials

Assortment of videos produced by Visible.net on YouTube...READ»

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Visible.net Gallery Videos - Online Video Commercials

Assortment of videos produced by Visible.net on Our Video Gallery...READ»

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Looking for a New Job? Be Prepared to Rely on the Web

With the current economic situation resulting in mass layoffs by some companies, there will be a large influx of qualified people entering the job market. For recruiters and HR personal alike, this comes as a blessing in disguise. ...READ»

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How to Launch a Start-Up in Today’s Environment

With the financial meltdown yet to be resolved, a slowing economy and VCs backing away from Web 2.0 start-ups, many people assume that now is the worst time to launch a start-up. Yet, now is precisely the best time to launch a tech ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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Microsoft and Yahoo Losing Search in a BIG Way

The latest search numbers were recently released and it appears that for the month of August once again Microsoft and Yahoo lost market share to Google. What’s worse is that not only are they losing market share in a growing ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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Successful Job Search

Career choice is definitely a key factor in business success. You have to like what you do to truly be successful at it. If you are just moving into a new career I suggest you take a career survey and make sure you were built for ...READ»

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