Google's antitrust case was instigated by competitors including Microsoft. UK price comparison firm Foundem has rejected Google's proposed web search concessions. The concessions come following the European Commission's ongoing antitrust...
If you think about it, with the Microsoft Surface or all HP Touchsmart products, most desktops will act like tablets and vice versa. Google's Mobile Search Moments research reported that 73 percent of mobile searches trigger additional action and...
Yahoo and Microsoft may have just extended their revenue-per-search guarantee, but Yahoo has apparently been trying to escape its 10-year search deal with Microsoft in order to join forces with Google, according to reports.
Facebook and Microsoft have a strong partnership. Microsoft was an early investor in Facebook and Bing has been working closely with Facebook on various social search projects. Just like Google's algorithm, some of the factors carry a lot of weight...
However, Microsoft wants the market share that Yahoo provides and they don’t want to potentially lose the deal to another search provider – namely Google. Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their revenue-per-search guarantee for one year, an...
We are also seeing a shift that we hope will be adopted across internet companies more broadly: two Internet companies — Google and Microsoft — have published figures regarding National Security Letters, secretive government demands for user...
Microsoft beats Google in patent ruling over Xbox technology – the InquirerMicrosoft has won a $1.8 million ruling in the first of two patent lawsuits against Google's Motorola Mobility over the use of its technology in the Xbox console.
Wavvii was founded by former Microsoft employee Adrian Aoun in 2009 and has raised around $2 million in seed funding so far. Google has acquired news summarization start-up Wavii for more than $30 million.
Are these changes significant enough to appease rival companies such as Microsoft? The European Commission is now seeking feedback on Google's cosmetic search result changes that aim to settle a years-long antitrust investigation.
Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic – PCWorldHarvard Business School associate professor Ben Edelman, who is a paid Microsoft consultant, puts out another anti-Google study, this time on flight search, and reports an "85...
Microsoft decided to let Bing Ads users import their Google AdWords accounts directly into Bing Ads. Microsoft had the resources to challenge Google and thankfully for all of us, they did. It was one of those moments in time I bet many Microsoft...
February), followed by Microsoft sites with 3.4 billion (up 13 percent), Yahoo sites with 2.4 billion (up 14 percent), Ask Network with 540 million (up 14 percent), and finally AOL with 321 million (up 5 percent).
The European Commission (EC) has been investigating Google's alleged "anticompetitive" internet search service since 2010, after a number of companies lead by Microsoft complained that Google was abusing its dominant position in the internet...
Google foes FairSearch, made up of Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle among others, filed a complaint accusing Android of being a "Trojan Horse" and promoting Google apps. Google is the subject of yet another anti-competitiveness complaint, this one from...
Companies known to have complained to the EU include Microsoft. Microsoft's search engine Bing has owned a small margin of the search market. Most recently, the EU has questioned whether Googles's unified privacy policy is legal, and was sued by...
Microsoft is on the attack again, this time slamming Google Play for the information it shares when users buy apps. The attack ads coincide with another European antitrust complaint orchestrated by Microsoft relating to Google's Android software.
EMarketer predicts Google will remain the leader in display ad revenues in 2013 with $3.11 billion in 2013, followed by Facebook ($2.75 billion), Yahoo ($1.37 billion), Microsoft ($760 million) and AOL ($540 million).
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Having worked at both major search platforms (Bing Ads and Google AdWords), I've found the more I understand about one system, the more I understand about the other. Google AdWords Quality Score Google uses it as a factor to calculate your rank...
We’re constantly updating and refining the Bing search experience," a Microsoft spokesperson told Search Engine Watch. The underlyings of authorship markup on Google link directly to Google+, where your identity has been verified.
