Facebook-amplified version of Bing now live for all in U.S.
The socially-augmented, Facebook-laden version of Bing’s search engine is now live for all people in the U.S., Microsoft announced today. The new Bing, first revealed in early May, features a three...
View ArticleApple diving into China with new stores, could add Baidu to iOS
Apple is strengthening its push into the Chinese market, and with that may come the iOS integration of China’s largest search engine Baidu. Bloomberg‘s sources say Apple is going to announce that...
View ArticleForget Google banner ads, Bing is now doing massive full-page ‘hero’ ads
Larry Kim Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now If you want your brand to be blasted straight through the eyeballs of your target audience right into their occipital lobe with maximum...
View ArticleApple’s new Siri crowdsourcing patent sounds almost exactly like...
Toshiyuki IMAI Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now A new Apple patent details how Siri, the company’s digital assistant, could use crowdsourcing to provide smarter, human-powered...
View ArticleDuckDuckGo & Yummly team up so you can search food porn in private
Image Credit: DuckDuckGoEver wish you could keep those searches for warm nutty cinnamon quinoa on the DL? Well good news for you, now you can search for food porn in private. Pro-privacy search engine...
View ArticleTime to panic yet? Yahoo took more U.S. search share from Google in January
Yahoo gained more search engine market share in January, causing Google to fall below 75 percent for the first time in five years, according to the latest report from StatCounter. This marks the second...
View ArticleYummly cooks up $15M to help you choose what’s for dinner
Recipe search engine Yummly announced today that it closed a $15 million series B investment from Bauer Venture Partners. The company allows users to browse for personalized recipes and says it wants...
View ArticleBloomReach pulls in $25M to bring ‘big data’ to search marketers
BloomReach, the “big data” tool for marketers that is used by the likes of Neiman Marcus and Williams- Sonoma, has raised $25 million in a round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Think of it as a...
View ArticleFacebook’s DeepText engine is learning to read what you share like a human
Facebook has developed an engine that will enable it to better understand the context of your posts. Called DeepText, it utilizes deep neural network architecture in order to understand the text being...
View Article500px launches way to search for photos by colors or designs
500px has created a new way to discover photos, based not on textual descriptions but on swatches and colors. The company today launched Splash, a search engine that lets you simply select a color or...
View ArticleThe Department of Defense’s deep web search engine to find human traffickers...
Security and intelligence company IST Research has acquired Rescue Forensics to double down on its efforts to find human traffickers and victims of modern day slavery. IST Research and Rescue Forensics...
View ArticleGoogle+ catching Facebook in brand pages but not fans … and why that’s OK...
Would you do it just for the ranking? A new study of Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ tracked the ongoing evolution of brands interacting with consumers and concludes that while growing, Google+ is still...
View ArticleHow Google searches 30 trillion web pages, 100 billion times a month
How do you run 100 billion web searches a month? Google gave an inside peek into how web search works today, revealing some fascinating numbers in the process. Search starts, of course, with crawling...
View ArticleGoogle confirms Dragonfly project in Senate hearing, dodges questions on...
The Senate asked Google's chief privacy officer about Project Dragonfly at a hearing on data privacy with Apple, Amazon, and others also in attendance.Read More
View ArticleFindera taps a database of 133 million records to connect professionals
Findera's a new search engine designed to help professionals connect with each other. Its crawler sources publicly available data and proprietary databases.Read More
View ArticleCraigslist going thermonuclear on re-listers, reportedly blocking all search...
Craigslist really, really, really does not want any of its listings showing anywhere else on the web. First, Craigslist blocked PadMapper and sued the one-person apartment-search startup. Then it...
View ArticleBing adds search for Facebook’s 300 million new daily photos (updated)
Updated 5:11 PM Aug. 30 with a note from Microsoft Facebook users are adding a stunning 300 million new photos each and every day. So Bing just added a new way to search and browse your friends’...
View ArticleTrue for people, not for planes: Routehappy shows all flights are not created...
Routehappy cruised into $1.5 million in seed funding today, for its flight search engine that prioritizes comfort and convenience over cost. On popular sites like Kayak, Orbitz, and Expedia, flights...
View ArticleThis search engine sequences the DNA of politics to determine whether you're...
What if you could tell if someone was a Democrat or a Republican … without ever asking them about their politics? It turns out that you can. “I think we’ve sequenced the DNA of Republicans and...
View ArticleFormer Yahoo India CTO develops search engine to transform K12
A new nonprofit search engine dubbed “Gooru” announced today an ambitious plan to bring personalized learning to K12 education. Gooru, a Silicon Valley company, was founded by Yahoo India’s former CTO...
View ArticleCan Google compete with the next generation of search engines?
GUEST: This is a guest post by entrepreneur Lars Hård Over the past 14 years, Google has set the standard for online search. The ability to access expansive amounts of information on a global scale and...
View ArticleGoogle to promise it’ll change and be good, may end FTC antitrust investigations
After a year of investigation, FTC investigators recommended charging Google under antitrust laws after agents found that Google illegally abused its power as the dominant search engine. Now, however,...
View ArticleRoom 77 raises $30.3M to find a place to lay your head
A bad hotel room can ruin a trip. Whether you are traveling on business and need a good night’s rest or spending a week on a romantic getaway, sleeping in a room that matches your personal needs can be...
View ArticleStartApp’s growth explodes: 500 million downloads, more searches on Android...
Mobile monetization platform StartApp announced that it has been downloaded a staggering 500 million times today, and that it completes more searches on the Android platform than any service other than...
View ArticleBiz Stone’s Jelly relaunches as bespoke question-answering resource
The third time may be the charm for Twitter cofounder Biz Stone. Jelly, the Q&A startup the Twitter cofounder created alongside Ben Finkel, has just opened up to the public, launching more than...
View ArticleNewtonX raises $12 million to help companies find expert consultants
NewtonX, a New York startup developing search products that connect companies with subject matter experts, has raised $12 million in venture capital.Read More
View ArticleMira marries NLP with computer vision to create a rich, search-powered...
Although it bills itself as a "beauty search engine," the AI technology underpinning Mira's platform is applicable to many rich online shopping experiences.Read More
View ArticleResearchers release data set to evaluate COVID-19 chatbots and search engines
A team of researchers have released a new data set -- CovidQA -- to evaluate the accuracy of COVID-19 chatbots and search engines.Read More
View ArticleAI-driven search engine You.com takes on Google with $20M
You.com, an AI-powered search engine cofounded by former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher, is launching in beta.Read More
View ArticleNaver’s large language model is powering shopping recommendations
In an interview with VentureBeat, South Korea search giant Naver explained how it's using large language models to power new user experiences.Read More
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