Clint Boulton

NEW YORK — Microsoft is making improvements to its Bing search engine to surface answers more quickly for its users in the hope of helping them make purchasing decisions. Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of the Online Audience Business for Bing, demonstrated these changes at the Search Engine Strategies show here March 25. The alterations, […]

NEW YORK-Microsoft fell so far behind Google in the search engine market because it failed to retrieve relevant results for a long line of less popular queries, a senior Microsoft executive told the crowd at the Search Engine Strategies show here March 25. Such was the key reason Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of the […]

Microsoft Bing Exec Shows New Search Features at SES NYC by Clint Boulton Mike Grehan, Yusuf Mehdi on Stage SES NYC host Mike Grehan, Incisive Media’s global vice president of content for SES/Search Engine Watch/ClickZ, settles in for a chat with Microsoft’s Mehdi. Working with Bing Tabs Bing Tabs were moved from the left-hand rail […]

Emboldened by its move to shutter its Chinese search engine, a Google policy official argued at a Congressional panel on China that the government should help companies combat Internet censorship abroad because it stymies economic growth. Alan Davidson, director of U.S. Public Policy for Google in America, offered this testimony to the commission March 24, […]

Google March 23 gave its Voice app for Android, more messaging muscle with Inbox synchronization. This tool alerts users of Android smartphones to new text messages or voicemails within seconds of receiving new messages in your Google Voice inbox. Previously, alerts of new messages appeared within 15 minutes of when they were sent, which is […]

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been gaining market share at a solid clip, growing from roughly 8 percent in June 2009 to 11.5 percent through February, according to comScore. Still, that growth won’t make people confuse Bing with Google, the U.S. leader at 65 percent (and greater abroad), anytime soon. The Bing team is fine […]

Android Smartphones Take 2010 CTIA Show by Storm by Clint Boulton Sprint HTC EVO 4G Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse took a break from his busy commercial-filming schedule to show off this 4G-capable smartphone, which includes a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor for speedy data delivery. On Its Side The large, 4.3-inch touch screen makes it […]

Google’s experiments with integrating more of its search advertising experience within Google Maps continued March 22 with the revelation that the company is now serving up prices for some hotel listings. When the small portion of users for whom this feature is currently available search for hotels on Google Maps, they’ll be able to enter […]

Motorola and Sprint Nextel said they are launching the Motorola i1, a rugged smartphone based on Google’s Android 1.5 operating system that lets users push to talk with other Nextel subscribers, this summer in North America. The companies, which unveiled the device at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas March 22, said the device […]

Yahoo, determined not to be an also-ran in the search engine market, has released two new search applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, one of which lets users search for information without typing in keywords. Released at the CTIA Wireless trade show March 23, the Sketch-a-Search application lets iPhone users search by drawing a […]

Google’s move to shutter Google.cn and reroute users to Google.hk March 22 represents an interesting move on the part of the search engine, which trails Chinese search leader Baidu in that country. Google’s move covers its Google Search, Google News and Google Images sites on Google.cn, all of which users may access uncensored at Google’s […]

Google March 22 ceased censoring its Google Search, Google News and Google Images sites on Google.cn, the search engine’s response to a cyber-attack in which the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists were accessed. Google is now redirecting those who visit the search engine to its Hong Kong site Google.com.hk, where it is […]