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		<title>The Future of Google Search Is Coming Sooner Than I Expected</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/the-future-of-google-search-coming-sooner-than-i-expected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I got to visit Google&#8217;s Silicon Valley headquarters and chat with Amit Singhal, the company&#8217;s search honcho, and other employees about their vision for the future of search. (I wrote about that experience here.) Singhal in particular waxed enthusiastic about the possibility of building something as smart, helpful and effortless as Star Trek&#8217;s computer. The whole thing might have sounded pie-in-sky and unrealistic if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that the current versions of Google&#8217;s search app for Android and iOS have already taken meaningful steps in that direction. Today, at the keynote for Google&#8217;s I/O conference, Singhal got a meaningful amount of stage time &#8212; and he talked about a bunch of new features he&#8217;d hinted at during my visit. In aggregate, they amount to additional meaningful progress towards the Star Trek computer: In Chrome, Google&#8217;s classic desktop version of search will get the same conversational spoken search which is already available in the mobile apps. On all platforms, that search will get smarter about interpreting queries and sequences of queries &#8212; such as &#8220;Show me things to do in Santa Cruz,&#8221; &#8220;Show me pictures of the Santa Cruz Boardwalk&#8221; and &#8220;How far is it from here?&#8221; You&#8217;ll be able to go into spoken conversational mode by saying &#8220;OK, Google&#8221; rather than having to press a button to go into a special mode. The Knowledge Graph, which gives Google a better understanding of facts about all sorts of entities, will try to anticipate your follow-up questions and answer them based upon what other people search for. Ask for the population of Canada, for instance, and it&#8217;ll tell you &#8212; but it will also graph how that population has changed over time. Google Now&#8217;s Cards &#8212; which present you with summaries of info based all kinds of stuff Google knows about you &#8212; are adding additional types of content, such as notifications about TV shows and albums you might like. In a feature which sounds similar to something Apple&#8217;s Siri already has, you&#8217;ll also be able to create reminders<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162837&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Google Search Is Going</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/google-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1998, a new search engine from an obscure startup launched. It featured a logo, a text field and buttons for search and &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; &#8212; and not much else. Its name, as I don&#8217;t actually have to tell you, was Google, and it changed the way that the world interacted with information. It&#8217;s tempting to think of Google search as something that hasn&#8217;t evolved radically over the years, in part because the Google.com homepage hasn&#8217;t changed much &#8212; the logo, search field and dual buttons are all still there. Even the results, which now weave in images, videos, Knowledge Graph summaries and other elements, are still dominated by straightforward text results of the sort that many a would-be Google rival has derided as &#8220;ten blue links.&#8221; Under the surface, however, Google has changed plenty, in increasingly profound ways. The way we interact with it has also evolved. And if the company&#8217;s ambitious plans pay off, the Google of just a few years from now could be a new kind of search engine. In a recent visit to Google&#8217;s Silicon Valley headquarters, I discussed the future of Google search with Amit Singhal, a 22-year veteran of the search field and the company&#8217;s senior vice president in charge of search, and some of his colleagues. They didn&#8217;t clue me in on any top-secret projects. (I didn&#8217;t even get to try on Google Glass.) But I did leave with a greater understanding of where Google thinks search should go, and the steps it&#8217;s taking to get there. Google Amit Singhal As Singhal stresses, all Google is doing is continuing a journey it&#8217;s already on. &#8220;Over the 12 years I&#8217;ve been here, we have changed Google every two to four years,&#8221; he says. &#8220;There have been four or five huge milestones &#8230; Google&#8217;s beauty is what hides behind that simple interface: incredibly complex mathematics.&#8221; For search research, Singhal says, &#8220;these are supremely interesting times.&#8221; But when he describes his ideal version of Google, it doesn&#8217;t sound all that much like Google as we&#8217;ve<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162339&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Might Be Too Old for Facebook Graph Search</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/22/i-might-be-too-old-for-facebook-graph-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, I turned 30. That&#8217;s not too old, I tell myself, yet the signs of aging are creeping in. Teenagers listen to music that I either haven&#8217;t heard of or believe to be mostly terrible. They use slang I don&#8217;t recognize, and I imagine my slang would sound to them like &#8220;groovy&#8221; or &#8220;far out&#8221; sound to me. But for the purposes of our tech blog, the most notable sign is how much more active teens are on Facebook than I am. To hear it from my wife, who works with children and teens at her job, they&#8217;re constantly signed in and active, to the point that reaching them by voice call is unreliable. Send them a Facebook message, even during school hours, and they&#8217;ll respond right away. (The reality isn&#8217;t quite that extreme; according to a Pew survey, most teens communicate through text messages and phone calls more than Facebook, but e-mail is far behind.) So when Facebook announces a new feature, like Graph Search, I imagine those teens getting the most use out of it. Graph Search lets you look up people, places, photos and other things using natural search queries. Think of it like Google for everything that your friends know; instead of searching the Web for somewhere to eat or something to do, you could just search through the collective wisdom of your network. Here are some of the example searches on Facebook&#8217;s Graph Search home page: Music my friends like Restaurants in London my friends have been to People who like cycling and are from my hometown Photos before 1990 Being able to find all that information&#8211;and provide your own information for friends&#8211;sounds great. But unless you and your pals are putting lots of data in, you&#8217;re probably not going to get a lot of data out. I know for sure that I haven&#8217;t put much effort into connecting my real life story to Facebook, and as I poke around my network, I see that many of my friends haven&#8217;t either. They don&#8217;t check in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155301&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nara Wants to Be the Web&#8217;s Recommendation Engine</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/06/26/nara-wants-to-be-the-webs-recommendation-engine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This new restaurant-finding site is based on artificial-intelligence technology.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=137365&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live Blog Coverage of Two&#8211;Count &#8216;Em, Two&#8211;Google Keynotes This Week</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/06/25/google-io-keynote-live-liveblog-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We'll be covering both of Google's major news events at its Google I/O conference in San Francisco.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=137276&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo&#8217;s Axis: Visual Search, an iOS Browser and No &#8216;Ten Blue Links&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/23/yahoos-axis-visual-search-an-ios-browser-and-no-ten-blue-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 20:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=133275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo tries a new, thumbnail-centric twist on search for desktop browsers, iPhone and iPad.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=133275&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Knowledge Graph: Google&#8217;s Next Frontier for Search</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/16/the-knowledge-graph-googles-next-frontier-for-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google's major new search technology, launching today, aims to understand millions of things -- not just strings of characters.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=132394&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DuckDuckGo Founder Gabriel Weinberg Talks About Creating a More Private Search Engine</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/23/duckduckgo-founder-gabriel-weinberg-talks-about-creating-a-more-private-search-engine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security & Privacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=125365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DuckDuckGo's commitment to user privacy was more or less an afterthought. If you aren't familiar with the site, it's a search engine with a decidedly spare aesthetic that doesn't log IP addresses or record your search history.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=125365&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Watch: Wolfram on Wolfram Alpha</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/19/sxsw-watch-wolfram-on-wolfram-alpha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://timenerdworld.wordpress.com/?p=124025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At SXSW Interactive last week, I spent time with Wolfram Alpha's creator, Stephen Wolfram, who talked with me about some of the "computational knowledge engine's" recent additions as well as its future direction.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=124025&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Talks Up Big Search Changes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/15/google-talks-up-big-search-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=123389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is promising to make some big changes to its search engine over the next few months, with more emphasis on providing facts and direct answers instead of just a series of links.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=123389&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remember Cuil? Google Does</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/20/remember-cuil-google-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008, a search engine called Cuil launched. Its founders included several folks with impressive backgrounds in the search business. It claimed to be the world's largest search engine, and said that it had figured out an approach that was superior to Google's PageRank. Before it launched, it looked like it could be a formidable Google rival.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=119715&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, Wolfram&#124;Alpha Isn&#8217;t Just for Pros</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/07/hey-wolframalpha-isnt-just-for-pros/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=117816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wolfram&#124;Alpha--the "computational knowledge engine" that lets you pose questions about math, history, and other factual stuff and get reliable responses, often in the form of beautifully-done infographics--is an extraordinary creation. But more than two and a half years after its debut, it's still not the Google-like breakout hit I keep thinking it should be.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=117816&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MC Hammer Launches &#8216;WireDoo&#8217; Search Engine for Some Reason</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/19/mc-hammer-launches-wiredoo-search-engine-for-some-reason/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://timenerdworld.wordpress.com/?p=100337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Please Hammer, don&#8217;t hurt &#8216;em. Those competing search engines know that your new search engine, WireDoo, is too legit to quit. Stop. Hammer time moves much faster than standard technology product development time. Don&#8217;t stop, actually. After all, they put you in the mix. Now everyone keeps saying, &#8220;Here comes the Hammer!&#8221; This is the way you roll, though. It&#8217;s all good. You had no other choice but to pump it up. Here&#8217;s the news: WireDoo does &#8220;deep search,&#8221; says Mashable. Have you seen her? Nobody has. She&#8217;s not available to the public yet, but when she is, we&#8217;ll all say, &#8220;Yo!! Sweetness.&#8221; We&#8217;ll just pray you officially turn this mutha out. Until then, we&#8217;re all in the same gang—we can&#8217;t touch this. [via Mashable] MORE: The 10 Most Dangerous Celebrities on the Internet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100337&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wolfram&#124;Alpha Language-Based Search Engine Knows &#8216;Shaft&#8217; Theme</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/11/wolframalpha-language-based-search-engine-knows-shaft-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=89599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who&#8217;s the search engine that knows the theme to Shaft? No, not Google. But maybe Wolfram&#124;Alpha can ring in as the savviest search engine out of &#8216;em all, because it knows the theme to Shaft. Show me another search engine that can do that. Seriously. I&#8217;m still waiting. (MORE: You Should Be Using Wolfram&#124;Alpha) Wolfram&#124;Alpha is a search engine that lets users ask questions in plain English. And as you&#8217;ll recall, the Shaft theme is comprised of question after question, all with the same answer. Ask each one to Wolfram&#124;Alpha and you&#8217;ll get the correct answer, including any color commentary: &#8220;Shaft! (Ya damn right!)&#8221; or &#8220;Shaft! Can you dig it?&#8221; But Wolfram&#124;Alpha also works just fine when I want to know how many miles are in the Earth&#8217;s circumference (that would be roughly 24,901 miles, my friend). What&#8217;s next? Everything I&#8217;ve ever wanted to know about Futurama? I&#8217;m down with that. Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man? SHAFT! Can you dig it? LIST: 50 Best Websites 2009 (via Gizmodo) Erica Ho is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89599&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duck Duck Go, the In-N-Out Burger of Search Engines</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/16/duck-duck-go-the-in-n-out-burger-of-search-engines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=86965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I briefly mentioned Duck Duck Go in my new Technologizer column for TIME.com—which is mostly about Google&#8217;s bevy of new search features—but it deserves more attention. Its mascot may be a genial waterfowl, but the site is the biggest underdog in search: It&#8217;s operated by one guy, a Philadelphian named Gabriel Weinberg. (MORE: Google Steps Up Its Search-Engine Game) And strangely enough, when I think about DDG, I don&#8217;t just compare it to other search engines. It reminds me of In-N-Out Burger—which is quite a compliment in my book. In case you don&#8217;t know about In-N-Out, it&#8217;s a burger chain here in California and a few other fortunate western states. It was founded in 1948 and basically, it&#8217;s what McDonalds was decades ago—a place with a minimalist menu (burgers, fries, shakes, soft drinks) of good, honest food. Even the signs look like the old 1950s &#8220;Golden Arches&#8221; McDonalds ones. It&#8217;s unapologetically basic and old-fashioned—and its fans are, indeed, fanatical. Duck Duck Go? Same thing. It feels a lot like early Google, with a stripped-down home page. Just as In-N-Out doesn&#8217;t have lattes or Asian salads or sundaes or scrambled eggs, DDG doesn&#8217;t try to do news or blogs or books or images. There&#8217;s no auto-completion or instant results. It just offers core Web search—mostly the &#8220;ten blue links&#8221; approach that&#8217;s still really useful, no matter what its critics say. DDG doesn&#8217;t offer Google&#8217;s &#8220;Search History&#8221; feature, which logs all your searches and lets you revisit them—because it doesn&#8217;t collect personal information, period. There&#8217;s no way to sign into it, and nobody&#8217;s going to figure out who you are based on what you searched for. There&#8217;s some advertising, but it&#8217;s minimal. (PHOTOS: A History of Google Doodles) As for the quality, I&#8217;m not saying that Weinberg has figured out a way to return more relevant results than Google&#8217;s mighty search team. But Duck Duck Go—which melds its own results with ones from Bing, Blekko, and other sources—is really good at bringing back useful sites. It all feels meaty and straightforward and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=86965&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIM and Microsoft&#8217;s Unholy Search Alliance Puts Bing on BlackBerrys</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/03/rim-and-microsofts-unholy-search-alliance-puts-bing-on-blackberrys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A funny thing happened at the Blackberry World conference today: Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer strode on stage and announced that Bing would be the default search engine and maps provider for Research in Motion&#8217;s Blackberry smartphones. Yes, the same Blackberry that stakes its reputation on business use. The same business use that was once the bread and butter of Windows Mobile. Microsoft and RIM may be old enemies, but these are different times. Microsoft re-entered the smartphone fight as an underdog with Windows Phone 7. On its own, it has a slim chance of claiming a big chunk of mobile searches with Bing. Partnering with RIM gives Bing a boost, and in the valuable business demographic to boot. RIM, meanwhile, gets a search partner that isn&#8217;t Google &#8212; the very company that threatens RIM&#8217;s existence with Android. For now, Google shouldn&#8217;t be too worried. Blackberry is quickly losing U.S. market share, and Windows Phone 7 has yet to gain much traction. Google still powers search for Android (with rare exceptions) and the iPhone, the two dominant smartphone platforms in the United States. There were rumors in January of Bing replacing Google as the iPhone&#8217;s default search engine, but they haven&#8217;t materialized. That leaves Blackberry, and possibly HP&#8217;s WebOS, which at the very least will rely on Bing Maps in the upcoming TouchPad tablet. It&#8217;s not the clearest path to search dominance, but it&#8217;s better than nothing. So RIM and Microsoft&#8217;s search alliance, however unholy, is not at all surprising. The first devices to sport Bing integration will ship this holiday season. (via This is My Next)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=80160&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Smartphones</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/gadgets/smartphones/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>3 of 10 U.S. Web Searches Powered by Bing</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/12/3-of-10-u-s-web-searches-powered-by-bing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=76272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has hit a milestone in its slow search ascent, with Bing powering 30 percent of searches in the United States. That&#8217;s only if you include both Bing and Yahoo, which is powered by Microsoft&#8217;s search engine. Separately, Bing is still in third place with 14.32 percent of the market in March, according to Hitwise. Yahoo has 15.69 percent, and Google still dominates with 64.42 percent. Roughly half of Bing&#8217;s 5 percent extra share came at Google&#8217;s expense. Hitwise doesn&#8217;t explain the rest of Google&#8217;s 3 percent drop in share, but presumably it comes at the hands of smaller search engines such as Ask.com, which in November gave up on chasing the big dogs to focus on other efforts. It&#8217;s also not clear why Bing is scoring consistent growth. The Next Web notes that Microsoft has been marketing Bing aggressively on popular websites, but that doesn&#8217;t explain why Yahoo search has grown as well. However, Hitwise says that Bing and Yahoo both have much higher success rates &#8212; roughly 80 percent, compared to 66 percent for Google &#8212; so maybe users are enjoying Microsoft&#8217;s search and going back to it more than Google. Perhaps the recent brouhaha over Google search quality has caused users to wander. It&#8217;s anybody&#8217;s guess. In any case, the rate of growth for Bing should be worrisome for Google. If it keeps up, Bing could overtake Google in 2012, according to Mashable. That&#8217;s unlikely to happen, but Bing does seem on track to become a serious threat. And people thought Microsoft couldn&#8217;t force its way into the search game.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=76272&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Million Fewer Things to Worry About: &#8216;Blekko&#8217; Search Engine Kills Off Spam Sites</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/10/one-million-fewer-things-to-worry-about-blekko-search-engine-kills-off-spam-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The war between the search engines and the spammers continues, with up-and-coming Google alternative Blekko wielding the stick against over a million spam sites. Its action is quite different to Google&#8217;s recent efforts to foil the PageRank scammers. Google ranks its results and gives each one a PageRank score. Over the years, spam sites have learned how to twist Google&#8217;s rules in their favor, gaming the system so that their sites naturally rise to the top of the pile. Google&#8217;s reponse was to re-set their PageRank, lowering their score so that their clickthrough traffic (and therefore their income) shrinks enormously overnight. Blekko, on the other hand, has written a separate algorithm it calls AdSpam. Rather than lowering the score of suspect sites, AdSpam seeks out dodgy search results and simply deletes them from Blekko&#8217;s database, so that they never get shown to users at all. It has help from human curators, in an attempt to ensure that genuine sites don&#8217;t get Blekko-zapped by mistake. It might sound like a draconian solution, but with internet traffic only increasing, the spammers will go to great lengths to ensure their sites attract clicks. The search engines must go to similar lengths to fight back.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=69666&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft: Bing &#8216;Deals&#8217; Scours Groupon, LivingSocial for You</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/03/microsoft-bing-deals-scours-groupon-livingsocial-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft isn’t one to be left too far behind, tacking daily deals onto its Bing search product. Bing Deals for the desktop and mobile gives thousands of unique offers spanning 14,000 cities and towns in the U.S. Being a search engine, the new Deals section aggregates offers from top providers, including Groupon, Living Social and Restaurant.com. To comb through the mounds of daily deal offerings, Microsoft’s teamed up with The Dealmap for this recommendation-based initiative. As Microsoft’s goal with Bing is to turn the search engine into a decision-making tool, it only makes sense to import the varying resources for regular, local discounts. With Bing Deals you’ll be able to filter deals based on location, discount, and category. Bing’s a social search tool, and so are deals. With Bing Deals, offers can be posted to your social stream, and readily shared directly with friends. But even with an aggregator and Bing search integration, the secret sauce is all about deal delivery methods. As Microsoft expands its mobile strategy for iPhones and Android devices, placing available deals alongside local searches ensures you have relevant information about a nearby venue, even if you weren’t looking specifically for discounts. Talk about a decision maker. Bing is one of the latest to layer in deals, as targeted discounts become a popular marketing draw. Deals are working their way into a few different industries, as The New York Times looks to local offerings, and wireless carriers like AT&#38;T find renewed uses for location-based data, extending deals to mobile users. Kristen Nicole writes about mobile, social media and the cloud.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=68819&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Microsoft</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/companies-2/microsoft/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Five Things You Need to Know About Google&#8217;s &#8216;Farmer&#8217; Search Engine Upgrade</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/28/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-googles-farmer-search-engine-upgrade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=68154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, after several months of atypically harsh coverage of the quality of Google&#8217;s search results&#8211;see here and here&#8211;the planet&#8217;s dominant search engine rolled out some major changes. (It says it&#8217;s been working on them for months, since before the recent discontent surfaced.) A few quick notes about the update and related matters: 1. It&#8217;s not necessarily a content-farm killer. The blogosphere is calling Google&#8217;s tweaks the &#8220;Farmer&#8221; update&#8211;a name I first saw used by Search Engine Land&#8217;s search guru, Danny Sullivan. That&#8217;s a reference to controversial &#8220;content farms&#8221; such as Demand Media (the parent of eHow), Yahoo&#8217;s Associated Content, and AOL&#8217;s Seed. Content farms crank out vast quantities of ad-supported content&#8211;much of it um, not so hot&#8211;that&#8217;s search engine-optimized to within an inch of its life, so it shows up as high as possible in Google results. But when I talked with Google Fellow Amit Singhal for a story I&#8217;m working on for this week&#8217;s dead-tree edition of TIME, he told me that the changes aren&#8217;t meant to penalize any particular site, or any specific type of content. Number-crunching by Sistrix seems to confirm Singhal&#8217;s stance. eHow&#8211;perhaps the single best-known product of content farming&#8211;doesn&#8217;t seem to have been hurt by Google&#8217;s revisions. In fact, Sistrix says eHow is now doing better in Google&#8217;s results than before. 2. It&#8217;s still a big deal. Singhal told me that the recent changes are among the most significant Google has ever implemented in one fell swoop: 11.8 percent of queries will get meaningfully different results than before. Like Sistrix, SEOClarity analyzed what&#8217;s changed. It reports that big-name sites such as Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, and Walmart.com are winners, while sites such as TheFind.com, BizRate.com, ShopWiki.com, EzineArticles, HubPages, and Associated Content are losers. It&#8217;s tough to tell from these lists just how well Google has done at improving the overall quality of results. For what its worth, HubPages doesn&#8217;t strike me as providing anything like bottom-of-the-barrel material. But then there are sites such as EzineArticles, which is rife with items like this gem (&#8220;Moving around<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=68154&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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