Users outside the US and those with older handsets will have access to the touch search application
Google has made its new gesture search application compatible with smartphones based on Android version 1.6, and is also opening it to users outside the U.S., the company's said in a blog post on Tuesday.
US market share depends on whose statistics you read. Most likely scenario: Bing gaining, Yahoo draining, Google maintaining
Microsoft's Bing search engine may still be a bit player in the lucrative online search business dominated by Google, but it's slowly and steadily gaining users.
Microsoft hopes to gain steam with regulator approval of Yahoo deal
Microsoft in recent months has slowly boosted its share of the search business, but still remains far behind a so-far unbeatable foe in its battle with Google.
The search leader's main advantage is that it "got it right first," he said.
It's not easy being Steve Ballmer. The Microsoft CEO was asked for the umpteenth time Tuesday if his company will ever be number one in search.
The companies have taken their battle over the search market to dueling blog posts
Microsoft and Google are stepping up their war of words. This time it's Microsoft's turn: It says Google is pointing fingers rather than addressing the European Commission's investigation into the search giant.
The day after the European Commission said it is investigating the search giant, Google describes the challenge of ranking
Google has offered a general explanation of how it ranks its search results, one day after the European Commission said it was looking into antitrust complaints against the company.
Companies will have to execute the terms of their deal carefully and precisely.
Now is when the hard work begins for Microsoft and Yahoo, after finally getting the regulatory green light from the U.S. and the European Union to implement their ballyhooed search engine partnership.
European regulators say the deal will enhance competition by creating a counter weight to Google
The U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission on Thursday both unconditionally approved Microsoft and Yahoo's plan to work together in the field of Internet search.
Yahoo's share of U.S. queries dropped to 17 percent in January, according to comScore
U.S. residents continue to shift their search engine use from Yahoo to Microsoft, a trend that started in mid-2009 after Microsoft introduced its new Bing engine and the companies signed a deal to partner in search.
Facebook member connections and content remain mostly off-limits to search engines
Google's recently released Social Search feature, whose raison d'etre is to include content from users' social-network contacts in search results, can barely tap into the connections people have made on Facebook, the world's largest social network.
The service, which pulls public content from users' friends on social networks, is graduating from Labs to Google.com
Google's Social Search service, which includes public content from users' social networks in search results, is getting promoted to Google.com from the company's Labs site, meaning it is no longer considered an early prototype.
The new features attempt to provide answers right in search results
Google is making it easier for people to find factual answers and event information directly in its search engine results, as it continues evolving and enhancing its core product, the company said Friday.
It won't comment about reports stating it kicked out 30,000 AdWords advertisers in December
Google boosted its efforts to boot out rogue and malicious advertisers in the fourth quarter by going after them more aggressively and making it more difficult for them to weasel their way back into its AdWords system.
Business Week reports that Apple and Microsoft are considering a deal that could oust Google from its position on the iPhone
Apple reportedly is in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone's Safari Web browser, according to Business Week. The idea may sound surprising, but it shows how deep the ongoing battle between Google and Apple (which started after the Google Voice iPhone application was barred entry into the iTunes App Store) has become.
By storing searchers' IP addresses for only six months, Microsoft hopes to steal a lead on Google in the privacy debate
Microsoft announced plans to cut the length of time it stores IP addresses of Web searchers using its Bing search engine from 18 months to six in a bid to improve its privacy track record.
