When Microsoft cleaned up Bing’s results pages earlier this month, a number of observers wondered if it was trying to imitate an earlier, less cluttered version of Google. In actuality, the software giant was clearing the decks for a new interpretation of social search. Meet the Social Sidebar.
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Romney Feels Santorum`s Google Pain
Nearly everyone knows about Rick Santorum’s Google problem, and how it may be tripping him up in his long race to win the Republican nomination to run for president. What not everyone knows is that he’s no longer the only Republican hopeful with such a problem. Mitt Romney just recently joined the club.
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Google Launches Search Transparency Blog Series
In an attempt to be more transparent about the ongoing tweaks and changes it makes to the way search results show up, Google officially kicked off a new blog series. Once a month, it will explain the revisions the search engine made that didn’t quite warrant their own full blog entries.
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Bing Turns Grinch for Cyber Monday
If you were searching for holiday shopping deals this Monday, I hope you weren’t using Bing. As it turns out, Microsoft’s search engine removed many sites specifically focused on publicizing Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals from its results. Did Bing become a Grinch, or is something more sinister going on?
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Google Plus Unveils Business Pages
This week, Google unveiled the biggest change to its fast-growing social network since its launch. Google+ users can now start building pages for their businesses. Many companies have been waiting for this feature for months.
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Google Hides Referrers: Privacy or Money?
Just last week, Google changed access to information about searchers leaving their website after a search. Searchers who are logged into their Google accounts no longer automatically pass along the term with which they searched – with one important exception. But this exception is enough to make some observers question Google’s motives.
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