Firefox the only big threat to Microsoft Internet Explore is now extended it’s deal with Google till 2011. This means that Google will be the default search provider for Mozilla Firefox browser. Users after installing the Firefox browser can change the default search provider , means user can choose any search provider but most of time users won’t change the default search provider.
This deal left one question : Google says Microsoft can’t use Live search as a default search provider for Internet Explorer but Google is paying a good amount of money to Mozilla for having Google as their default search provider. In both the cases users can easily change the search provider.?
Last year, Baker said that she would not hesitate to walk away from the lucrative partnership if that was what was necessary to remain independent. Baker said in an interview with Computerworld in October 2007
We’ve spent a lot of time and energy making sure that Google understands that it cannot turn us into an arm of Google," . "If the protection of [our independence] would come into conflict with Google, or any of our search partners, we would opt for the community who built Firefox and love Firefox.
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Microsoft restructuring its Search Business Group to ad a new group that will focus towards the commercial search. Jeff Kelisky CEO of multipath will be General Manager of this group. This new commercial search group focus on Live Search cashback, MSN Shopping, local, consumer mapping, Virtual Earth and mobile. Kelisky will report to Search Business Group GM Brad Goldberg in Redmond but will remain based in London.
Brad Goldberg, GM Search business group
We are increasing our focus on commercial search, including changes to the search leadership team and engineering team and in order to lead this market we need to bring all find, explore and commerce needs together. (Jeff) will direct this team to ensure Microsoft continues to innovate and deliver so that consumers choose us to find local information and services.
Microsoft currently have only 1.8% share in Europe search market and working very hard to increase search market percentage. Microsoft is also building a research and development center for search technology in Europe. According to zdnet blog Microsoft views maps as “one axis for search.” Other axis may be Enterprise Search and Natural-language search.
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Google websites gets 1 Billion search queries in the month of June according to comscore press release. Google Sites ranked as the top search property in India with more than 1 billion searches conducted in June, representing 81 percent of the market. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 9.4 percent, followed by Ask Network (1.9 percent) and Microsoft Sites (1.7 percent). Indian Internet portal Rediff.com ranked fifth with 1.5 percent.
The Indian search market is dominated by global Internet brands, with Google attracting the wide majority of searches. As the top local player in the search market, Indian web portal Rediff.com attracts slightly less than 2 percent of all searches, indicating that there is substantial room for growth among the local Internet brands.
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Just a day back, CUIL was launched. And from the day one, every one started raising questions, whether it can be a Google Killer or not. So, I decided to use CUIL for one full day, instead of Google.com, just to figure out whether CUIL is worth the hype or not, and figured out that somehow its not a good idea to switch to CUIL. Well, there are a lot of reasons for that. But before that, lets just list out why it is getting so much of hype.
- The very good thing about this search engine I found is its massive index of nearly 120 billion pages, compared to 40 billion pages on Google.
- It is developed by former Google employees, making sure that the indexing methods used by google are further improvised and used here.
- It not only search for the results, but shows them in a nice format along with a thumbnail too. Also, it displays further options to find relevant searches.
- It indexes the pages based on the contents and not on the page ranking system, which ensures that you find related information, much easily.
- It displays possible search options in a dropdown box, as you type in the search box.
- It loads faster than google. It may be because of low traffic as compared to google, but still its a good thing. Also, animations are crisp, smooth, and even with those animations, page doesn’t seems too flashy. Really nice graphics.
Enough of praise of CUIL, as a potential google killer. Lets just face it now. The search engine is not worth the hype, as I found. Atleast I am not switching to CUIL permanently, for next few months. May be it will be just another search engine, like Powerset or Wisenut, which also tried to make a dent in Google’s market share, but miserably failed. Obviously, I have got a proof for the same, as I have used it for one day. Listing out my findings below.
- It is not google. Sorry, for being so mean. But, I never really use term “search” in context of internet. It is by default Google. For so many years, everyone is using Google as their favorite search engine. It is not easy to get such a big fan base easily.
- Google provides other services, based on their own search index, like page ranking, adsense etc. Adsense won’t work on basis of CUIL or other search index.
- You can search just web pages in CUIL. To search for images, news, blogs, or using advanced search, I had to switch back to google. CUIL does not support using “filetype:” keyword while searching for a PDF file.
- “Did you mean: jitendra garg“. I missed this auto spell check in CUIL. You have to start playing scrabbles to improve your spellings before using CUIL.
- Where is the option to “Search pages from India”. I am not interested in all results but just from Indian sites, but still CUIL displays me all the results for my search query. Option to search regional pages is missing. One more negative point for CUIL.
- How many times, do you have used Google to check the current dollar prices in INR, or to calculate a mathematical equation, or to know the current time or temperature of the city? I use these features a lot. It helps saving you a lot of time, looking for icon of Calculator, or Weather gadget, in your Vista sidebar. But sadly, this feature is also missing from so-hyped CUIL.
- Most of the sites, uses google page rank and Alexa rating to determine your page’s importance on internet. So sad, they have to write their algorithm once again. Clearly, not a feasible option.
- Advertisers prefer google. They have a reason for it after all.
- Google is one stop solution to most of your needs. Calculator, maps, weather information, foreign exchange, image search, and lot of such features, integrated with search, provides a richer experience. While, CUIL just boasts of a massive index for web pages, and nothing else.
Finally after one day of using CUIL, and missing google, I feel a bit too relaxed, as I am back to Google. Any search engine trying to call itself a Google killer, should atleast think again. After powerset, wisenut, a9.com, and now CUIL, it seems that for the next few years, Google have to wait for the true contender. May be MS-Yahoo merger can result in a better alternative of our most beloved search engine. Till then, happy googling.
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Internet has vast amount of information and there are a lot of way to search this information using different search engines, blogs, forum and many other. It’s important find a right way to search information on Internet. I found some tips to search more effectively over the internet.
Use Instant Search Box
Most browsers now include a built in search box, that will you to search internet more effectively as compare to using search engine web page. Instant Search Box cache your search queries so you won’t have to type the same query again and again. Users can also multiple search engines to Instead search box, so you can search multiple search engines.
Use Address Bar Built In Search
Type find or go in Internet Explore and then type the keyword or URL that you are looking for, Internet Explorer will do the task pf searching for you. This feature is not available in Firefox.
Use Different Search Providers
All search engines use different search algorithms to index content. To get a better result always use different search engines to search information over internet. If one search engine is not able to give desired result then go for some other search engine.
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If searching is part of your daily life and try to get any type of information search engines Like Google, Live, yahoo or any search engine. For specialized search queries like for images, videos, music and blogs. There are some other specialized search engines are available for specialized search queries. For example web stores a lot of multimedia content but most of these search engines have limited or no access to these multimedia content. Here are some specialized search engines.
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one person has a question, chances are other people have the same question. Since discussion forums have removed the barriers of time and distance that once delayed like-minded individuals from answering each other’s questions. Twing enable users to quickly and easily find those answers and help connect the searchers, thereby beginning new friendships and propagating new discussions with new questions and new answers for the next wave of forum users.
Twing is highly indexed forum search engine. Twing gives real information in real time for whom searching for discussions and real information.traditional search engines don’t have the ability to more completely identify important information in the deep discussions enabled by the many-to-many communication format of forums.From the serious to the silly, personal to professional and everything in between, it’s likely that someone, somewhere is talking about it online. And Twing is here to help you learn from and take part in any discussion you like by making sure you can find the discussions you want.
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