Facebook + Built-In Search Engine = Total World Domination?
Maybe the situation isn’t quite as extreme as my title would indicate*, but there’s been some buzz lately that before Facebook goes public in 2012, they’ll be introducing a new, proprietary search engine to rival Google, Bing-Yahoo, and the rest. As Facebook overtook Google as the most-visited site on the internet last year, this could [...]
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Bing-Yahoo Search Engine Expanding Internationally
Last August, Bing started powering Yahoo’s search engines in the United States and Canada. Now, for those of you outside North American (and more of you in it), the BingHoo hybrid has expanded into Australia, Brazil and Mexico, with Bing powering organic searches for Yahoo in those countries. The expansion is likely to continue into [...]
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