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Before search engines, we had to rely on other people in real life, TV, newspapers, magazines, and books for our information. If you wanted to learn about something you picked up a book, read, and remembered that information. According to Betsy Sparrow, a psychologist at Columbia University, we don’t “know” and retain as much information as we used to; we are only remembering how to find the information by using the Internet. More »


Bing.com, Microsoft’s latest search engine, has continued to grow for a second straight month while Google has continued to decline. According to comScore, Bing had a 8.9 percent search queries in the U.S. in the month of July, which is a 0.5 percent increase since June and a 0.9 percent increase since May.

Google and Yahoo both lost market share during the month of July. Google and Yahoo lost 0.3 percent market share, with down to 64.7 percent and Yahoo down to 19.3 percent. Microsoft and Yahoo have both recently announced Bing as the main search engine for both companies, which equals a 28.2 market share, which is not much higher than the 28 percent share in June. But will this increase for the second straight month help Bing when they take on Yahoo’s loss of share? More »


Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, is gaining momentum, ready to take on Google and is actually quite good. Better than Google at some things. One of the problems that many had with Google was real-time searches, but Bing has taken a stride ahead of Google in that department by attempting to add Twitter searches. More »


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