A strong Q4 helped. The fourth quarter of 2012 saw Google generate revenue of $14.4bn (£9bn), up 36 per cent on the same period in 2011. Total revenue from outside the US accounted for 54 per cent of Google's sales for the quarter. ...
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The search giant saw its market share drop to 88% in December 2012. According to Experian, 2.7 billion visits were made to UK search engines in December 2012. This represents a 17% increase year-on-year for UK search. Google market ...
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Users of Microsoft's Bing search engine can now see a wider range of Facebook content from their friends appear alongside search results, part of an effort by Microsoft to make the site more social. When a person runs a query in Bing, the ...
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The updated Bing search engine adds more information from Facebook friends when searching. The revamped search option is expanding beyond Facebook likes, photos and profile information that relate to searches. Bing search will now show ...
If users take to Facebook's new search tool, the social network could be in line to haul in a whole lot of advertising dollars, say industry analysts. Earlier this week, the company announced Graph Search, a tool designed to enable users ...
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Google's chief executive and co-founder, Larry Page, has slated Facebook for "doing a really bad job with its products", while also taking a swipe at Apple, as the war between the companies intensifies. The interview with Page was ...
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Facebook is rolling out a major new search engine designed to give users more options in sorting through topics and interests based on their friends. The social network is positioning the tool, dubbed "Graph Search," as a way to make the ...
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The social network is rolling out a free calling service to iPhone users in the US. According to The Verge, the updated app will allow users to make free voice calls to their friends on Facebook. To make a call, users just need to open ...
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The social network has released the “graph search” which allows users to find information and new connections on the site by using key phrases. The Graph search will now allow users to do specific searches about friends on the ...
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CBR rounds up expert opinions on what Facebook’s new graphic search means for the future of the company and its search engine competitors. Jonathan Beeston, director of new product innovation at Adobe Facebook Graph Search is a ...
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Facebook yesterday unveiled its social graph feature dubbed Graph Search, which allows people to use the network as a search engine to find people, photos, places and interests. Further reading Facebook, Google attack MEP report ...
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Facebook is rolling out a major new search engine designed to give users more options in sorting through topics and interests based on their friends. The social network is positioning the tool, dubbed “Graph Search,” as a way ...
Bing, Microsoft Corp.'s search engine, today is launching a national campaign to highlight Bing's commitment to honest search results and to help explain to consumers the risks of Google Shopping's newly announced "pay-to-rank" practice, in ...
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Visual Retail Plus’s all powerful and scalable POS (point of sale) software applications allow retailers of shoes and apparels to customize and integrate their e-stores with their physical stores. In other words standalone retailers ...
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Microsoft’s C# has been crowned the number one programming language of the year by the PopularitY of Programming Language (PYPL) index. Although Java is still the most widely used programming language in the world, C#’s ...
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