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Bing. SEO for Bing - Google and Bing Indexing Differences. How Search Works - The Story – Inside Search – Google. Google vs. Bing: The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine. I can still remember when my when I first switched over to Google on the recommendation of my brother’s girlfriend.

Google vs. Bing: The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine

She’s literally a rocket scientist and carries a lot of intellectual weight with me; her endorsement was fairly simple – “it returns great results”. To understand what “great results” means, transport yourself back 10+ years ago and try to remember the search user experience – one dominated by short tailed queries and multiple paginated results until you could find what you were really looking for. We didn’t complain because it was free and much better than that old dewey decimal approach we learned in middle school. In fact, it was magical. What Do Bing And Yahoo Have That Google Doesn't? While Google has everything that I personally need, it has its shortcomings when you compare it against some of the features Bing and Yahoo! Have to offer. Even if you’re a Google supporter, knowing that it has competitors standing up and challenging it to improve, should make you happy.

Without them, Google would look like a monopoly. Google isn’t perfect, and I’m here to tell you why. How Does Yahoo! Web Search Work? Google and Yahoo Search Engine Technology Comparison. Google and Yahoo Search Engine Technology Comparison With so much talk about relevance these days, I thought I’d introduce you to some of the technology behind the search engine, and what the potential differences between them could be.

Google and Yahoo Search Engine Technology Comparison

There are some interesting takes on search technology from pre-ranking results on the fly to neural networks to community based searching. In these articles I will focus on ‘The Big Four.’ These are the engines considered to own the search space. Battle of The Search Engines - Google vs. Bing vs. Yahoo - In todays world of new media, the way we receive, report and consume information more often than not, gets filtered through a search engine.

Battle of The Search Engines - Google vs. Bing vs. Yahoo -

Many of us rely on Google for just about everything we might be curious about. News, stock quotes, celebrity gossip or directions to and from somewhere. Though the majority of us have come to rely on Google as a household name, a minority of us march to the beat of a different drum (or search engine). What are the top search engine sites,? Where did they come from, and how long will there informational dynasty last? As the avid followers of business tech news we are, we couldn't help but indulge ourselves in the latest info-graphic blog by our friends at Business2community. 1996-Year of The BackRub. Bing vs. Google" How Bing delivers search results. Bing automatically scans (or "crawls") the internet to develop and maintain an index to generate and display a set of search results (the "displayed search results").

How Bing delivers search results

The index is really a catalog of available online resources, including websites, images, videos, documents, and other items. Particular displayed search results are created by using a computer algorithm to match the search terms you enter with results in our index. Google. Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products.

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These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.[6] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords.[7][8] Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. The Users' Guide to Web Searching. Instant Search - Search and Stuff. Escape your search engine Filter Bubble!

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Escape your search engine Filter Bubble!

That is our privacy policy in a nutshell. The rest of this page tries to explain why you should care. Last updated on 04/11/12. Removed ", which gets sent to my personal email. " in last paragraph as our feedback is now handled by multiple team members via desk.com. Before that, on 03/11/12. How Microsoft Bing Works" The popularity of the personal computer as a business tool has a lot to do with a company founded by two men, Paul Allen and Bill Gates.

How Microsoft Bing Works"

In 1975 the duo wrote a version of BASIC for one of the very first personal computers, the Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) Altair [source: Microsoft]. It wouldn't be long before their success would lead them to found their own software company called Micro-Soft. Now, after more than 30 years, one corporate name change and several operating systems later, Microsoft is on top of the computer world.

In the meantime, Gates and Allen have become billionaires, with Gates reigning as the richest man in the world. Even an $18 billion loss in 2008 didn't knock him off the top [source: Forbes]. And of course Microsoft creates more than just operating systems. This article will give you a close look at some of the features found in Bing. Google Vs Bing (#INFOGRAPHIC)