"search engines" tag (sorted by SiNergy)

This year, Google lists 10 competitors by name in its recently filed 10-K report for 2009, including social sites Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp, and specialty search engines that dive deep into a specific category, such as travel site Kayak and health inquiry site WebMD. Google sees an Internet far more crowded with competitors than just a year ago.

Branding is important — no news there. But how do you measure the results of your online branding campaigns? Now there’s a question. Although it’s often tricky to measure the effectiveness of branding, there are a few stats in your analytics data that should not be ignored when trying to determine if your brand is making headway with online consumers.

Its government probably thinks too much Internet will cause blindness and hairy palms: China has had a history of severely restricting access to information available online, including censorship on search engine results; lockdown of ISP data centers; blocking websites because of social, religious, political or pornographic content; and arrests and imprisonment of Internet activists.

No longer complying with the Chinese government's extensive restrictions on online content, Google boldly declared that they are no longer filtering search engine results in China. This came after cyber accounts made on several Internet-based companies, including Google, originating from China.

With Google deciding not to censor search engine results in China anymore (to the extent of pulling out business should Chinese laws deny them unfiltered operation), China’s long-time Internet restrictions are put under international spotlight.

We are so screwed. With China producing half of the stuff we purchase, Google couldn’t have picked a bigger bully to challenge. If China decided to stop selling us manufactured groups, where else could we get them for just as cheap?

In what may be a form of upsmanship against Google (and to a certain extent to iPhone), Microsoft is bringing adult content to the iPhone through their free Bing apps. Bing.com is known to be an extremely porn-friendly (and somewhat anti-establishment) search engine that has been the pride and joy of Microsoft since they retooled it two years ago.

Connor Young writes about Google's new racket, a public DNS Service that is supposedly going to make user's protected from spoofing, and make surfing the internet less prone to mistakes. I suppose the ones who will most benefit from this are surfers who do transactions online.

The pissing match between Google and media mogul Rupert Murdoch continues. Though it appears author Bob Preston is more concerned with how Murdoch will change the search engine ballgame if he finally acts on his threat to pull out his NewsMedia sites in Google.

Now this piece of news is quite intriguing. Not because of the news itself, but how the article shows how people are reacting to it.