January saw Yahoo further increase the gain it made in US search share last month…
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Apple vs. the one-trick ponies
Google’s latest quarter underscored how deeply reliant the company is on searc…
Google has major headaches going into 2015 caused by Apple, Facebook
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has downgraded Google…
Microsoft, Yahoo vie to become Apple Safari’s default search option
Google Maps and YouTube are no longer bundled as default apps…
EU parliament ‘poised to call’ for Google’s breakup
The European parliament is poised to call for a break-up of Google…
Firefox dumps Google for default U.S. search, switches to Yahoo/Bing
In a major departure for both Mozilla and Yahoo, Firefox’s default search engine…
Apple adds DuckDuckGo option to iOS 8 Safari, ‘a search engine that doesn’t track users’
In iOS 8, users who value their privacy can choose to make the DuckDuckGo search engine the default…
Apple may have quietly signaled that it’s received a secret Patriot Act order
Under the Patriot Act, the US government can demand information…
Apple slams Google in Safari 7.1 release notes: ‘Adds DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn’t track users’
Apple today released Safari 7.1…
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp: Google is a ‘platform for piracy’
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp weighed into the debate over a proposed EU settlement
Yahoo still in sales rut as CEO Marissa Mayer unable to rev company engines
Yahoo! on Tuesday said it will sell about one-third fewer Alibaba shares than expected…
Apple drops Google for Bing as iOS, OS X default Spotlight search engine
Microsoft’s Bing search engine celebrated its fifth anniversary…
It’s time for Apple to buy DuckDuckGo
Apple is in an outright war with Google and lawsuit wins against Samsung…
Slanted Google News algorithm responsible for decline of Apple’s brand appeal?
Has Google gone thermonuclear?
Google gets new requests to be ‘forgotten’ following ruling, plans request system for Germany
Google has said it will implement a mechanism for the public to make such requests…
Top European court: Google must remove links to personal material under certain circumstances
Top European court to Google: People have “right to be forgotten” on Internet…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to save Google a billion dollars
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is hot..
Yahoo’s strategy: Rebuild search, take share, win iOS from Google
There’s a lot of money and mindshare to be had by taking the default search position on iPhone…
Marissa Mayer working to get Apple to dump Google, default to Yahoo for mobile search
Wall Street gave Yahoo stock a big boost today…
Why doesn’t Apple do its own search engine?
In 2013, Apple sold about 150 million iPhones and about 70 million iPads…
Marissa Mayer’s secret initiatives aim to get Yahoo back into homegrown search
CEO Marissa Mayer has ordered up two under-the-radar initiatives…
Why Apple is betting big on search
The maker of the Mac, the iPhone, the iPad, and the iPod just paid more than $200 million for Topsy…
Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo passed Google in U.S. Web visitors in July
For the first time in more than two years, more Americans…
DuckDuckGo search engine surges 33% in wake of PRISM scandal
The ‘anonymous’ search engine DuckDuckGo is getting a boost off the PRISM scandal…
Apple, Yahoo discuss deeper iOS integration, sources say
Yahoo Inc. and Apple Inc. are getting cozier…
EU says its Google antitrust case not affected by U.S. FTC decision
A decision by U.S. regulators to end a probe into whether Google Inc…
Apple’s slow and steady search attack
Say Apple were to purchase an underrated search engine such as DuckDuckGo…
Pure search engine DuckDuckGo sees usage soar
Gabriel Weinberg’s search engine DuckDuckGo does not track users…
Antitrust suits threaten Google from both sides of the Atlantic
Nowadays, the wellbeing of a company can depend on where it appears on the list of Google search results…
Apple to add Baidu as iPhone search-engine in China, sources say
Apple Inc. plans to add Baidu Inc.’s search engine on iPhones in China…
Are Apple and Baidu about to team up against Google?
There’s plenty of evidence that Apple is putting a lot of emphasis on China…
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang quits, shares jump
Yahoo Inc co-founder Jerry Yang has quit the company he started in 1995…
Apple iPhone 4S’s Siri boosts visits to Yelp and Wolfram Alpha search engines
The week the iPhone 4, featuring Siri, came out, the number of queries to Wolfram Alpha increased…
Yes, Google, Apple’s Siri is a serious threat
The search industry is in the early stages of a disruptive period of change…
Google’s Eric Schmidt tells U.S. Senators Apple’s Siri is significant competitive threat
Schmidt called Apple’s Siri, currently in beta for iPhone 4S owners, a “significant development” and described it as a “competitive threat”…
Microsoft’s plan to stanch Bing’s hemorrhaging of $1 billion per quarter
Bing, Microsoft’s two-year old search engine, is losing nearly a $1 billion a quarter…
