The trouble lies in the quality of information — a thorny problem due to the subjectivity of “quality” in general. Google keeps tweaking its algorithms, but the junk content keeps rising to the top. In the arms race against sp…
Microsoft has definitively denied that its Bing search engine takes its cues from its rival. Nonetheless, the Google allegations highlights the challenges Microsoft faces in addressing the “long tail” market in search, or the o…
Can 700 more layoffs really solve Yahoo’s problems?
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Rich Skrenta thinks he has built a better search engine. This week, he’s launching Blekko, whose web searches will only accept information from curated lists of trusted sites, mediated by users to filter out irrelevant results….
Celebrity books normally get a big marketing push. But the campaign for Decoded, the rap mogul’s new book of lyrics, is unprecedented. Thanks to backing from Clear Channel and Microsoft’s Bing, it’s surely in a league of its ow…