Stories about: Hitwise

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Bing gains again -- should Google worry? 11 March, 2010 11:06

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.
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Google still tops, but Bing inches ahead in search market 11 March, 2010 08:46

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.
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AltaVista irrelevant? Not to other search engines 17 December, 2009 09:18

A long time ago, in the mid-to-late 1990s, AltaVista was a major search engine, but with the rise of Google its popularity slid, eventually becoming irrelevant to most users.
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'Twitter' is the Word of the Year 01 December, 2009 05:30

The dramatic leap in the use of social networks this year has extended to the language that surrounds them.
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Bing now a serious challenger to Google 12 November, 2009 10:34

Given undistinguished history of Microsoft's late and unlamented Live Search engine, the predecessor to Bing, it's easy to dismiss Redmond as a hapless also-ran in the search market. But given the vast sums of money and resources that Microsoft is investing in its fledging Google challenger, this could change in a hurry.
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Business use of Twitter, Facebook exploding 10 November, 2009 07:36

The use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote businesses has exploded over the past six months, according to the results of a study that were released today.
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The search market created Microsoft's worst enemy 09 November, 2009 08:10

Throughout its history, Microsoft has earned a reputation for tenacity when entering markets created, and initially dominated, by innovative startups.
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Google lets the music play in search results 29 October, 2009 10:06

Google is changing the way it resolves music-related search queries through a variety of partnerships designed to help it provide more relevant and useful results.
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Social networks war shows Facebook dominant 15 October, 2009 04:00

Facebook is leaping ahead of MySpace to turn into the most popular social networking site in the U.S. Yet although Facebook nailed down 58.6 percent of all U.S visits to social networking sites in September -- for an increase of 194 percent -- use of Twitter surged even more astoundingly, according to Experian Hitwise.
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Twitter, Facebook keep soaring as Myspace slumps 13 October, 2009 05:36

While Myspace Inc.'s business took a huge slide in the U.S. over the past yearp, use of rival Twitter Inc.'s social network simply exploded as visits to the site in September increased by 1,170% compared to year-earlier figures, according a report released last week by Experian Hitwise, an Internet monitoring firm.
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Google Caffeine FAQ: your questions answered 12 August, 2009 08:47

Google has unveiled Caffeine, a "next-generation architecture" for its Web search platform. The retooled search engine is said to be faster, more accurate, and more comprehensive than the current Google search setup.