Before trying a local merchant, restaurant or service provider, most people will check them out online first. Often the listings they look for on the results page are review sites where previous customers have shared their experience with the business.

There was a time when Delicious was the social bookmarking service to use—then Yahoo put its hands on it. Since then the social bookmarking site has become a lost soul

There are many different search engines and question and answer sites online. From Google, to Yahoo! Answers, and the also popular site Quora, people are able to ask virtually any question and get answers to them.

It’s very hard to admit failure, especially when that failure will make you look like an utter fool before your competitors. This is the dilemma facing Microsoft, and the object of its failure is Bing.

Have you ever noticed that when you visit Yahoo’s homepage, there’s at least one of the top four news stories that you can’t resist reading? This is no accident

When you are struggling search engine, sometimes small things can do wonders—like giving your search results pages a ‘lick of paint’. That is approached taken by Yahoo the redesign of its search results pages are truly something to behold.

Bing may not control a very large section of the search market, but that doesn’t stop the search engine for trying its hand at innovation. The latest innovation or should I say improvement is what Bing is calling Adaptive Search

If there was any doubt that the search market is alive and kicking and that Google is still ‘top dog’, then the latest figures should serve as reaffirmation of these facts.