Pandia Search Engine News Wrap-up August 29
And then they were two…
This week the world lost another search engine giant. Yahoo! in the US and Canada has switched over to using the Bing database, and the rest of the world will soon follow. This means that the North American market is now totally dominated by Google and Bing.
This does not mean that Google and Microsoft have achieved global domination, though. Yandex is, for instance, the big player in Russia and Baidu is dominating the Chinese market.
Still, this does not bode well for search engine innovation in what we used to call the Western Hemisphere. There are no alternative big search engine players left in Europe any more.
Here are some other search engine headlines we have found interesting this week:
Google Adds A Filter For Finding Blogs SE Land
New Awesome Ways to Search within Current Site (Using Google’s site operator) SE Journal
Has Google Purged Places Of Yelp? All Signs Point To Yes TechCrunch
Google Realtime Search Gets Home Page, Conversation View, Alerts & Geosearch SE Land
Google News Changes Again, Adds Collapsible Right Side SE Roundtable
Bing’s Market Share Up 51% In Past 12 Months SE Land
Google’s Latest Buy – Like.com Confirmed! PageTraffic
Yahoo! Transitions Organic Search Back-End to Microsoft Platform Yahoo! switches over to Bing search results in the US and Canada.
Twitter hashtags: quick guide Phil Bradley
4 Cool New Gmail Features You Should Know Search mail and docs, sign into multiple accounts, and more; Google Tutor
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