Category: Search Engines

Google unhappy with the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo merger

4 February, 2008 (11:04) | Search Engines | 3 comments

News reports today suggest that Google is unhappy with the proposed buyout of Yahoo by Microsoft. Google are worried that Microsoft may try to press an “inappropriate.. influence” over the internet.
We for one are less concerned about the influence that a joint Yahoo-Microsoft offering will cause as compared to the current dominance of an overly […]

Microsoft to buy Yahoo for $44.6bn?

1 February, 2008 (11:56) | Search Engines | No comments

Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6bn in a combination of cash and shares. This equates to a whopping 62% above the closing price for Yahoo shares the day before the offer.
For a long time observers have been speculating as to how Google’s dominance of the search market could ever be challenged. Now maybe […]

Wikia Search Launches

7 January, 2008 (14:41) | Search Engines | No comments

More than a year after it news emerged that Jimmy Wales the co-founder of Wikipedia was working on a new project to create a new search engine it has finally launched today at www.wikia.com.
The major difference between wikia and the more established search engines is the focus on transparency over how search results are calculated […]