Tech blogs and news outlets are backpedaling a bit after publishing a frenzy of reports claiming that a “supercomputer” had passed the famous Turing Test last week. The test, adapted from the writings of computer science legend Alan Turing, is generally intended to determine whether or not a computer can exhibit behavior that is indistinguishable from that of a human.
Pinterest, the popular online tool used to discover images and articles related to various interests and creative endeavors, will soon be bringing its well-received “guided search” function to its web version. Guided search was previously only available in the mobile app.
An extensive new post on the Bing Search Quality Insights Blogs gives readers a long list of reasons why Bing’s image search works better than Google’s – at least according to Bing, that is. But is it really better, especially given that so many choose to use Google while ignoring Bing?
Rumors have long circulated that Microsoft would launch a competitor to Apple’s Siri voice assistant. After all, Microsoft’s line of Windows Phones and other mobile devices such as the Surface tablet compete directly with Apple’s iOS devices including the iPad and iPhone, both of which run Siri.
If you’re desperate to see one of your pages rank highly in search engine results for a certain keyword query, you might be tempted to squeeze that keyword into as many places as you can in the page’s content. Doing so could backfire spectacularly, according to a new report from Search Engine Land.
Remember Ask Jeeves? If you’ve been online for a while you probably do, even if you haven’t turned your browser to the still-running Ask.com in many years. The central premise was that you’d type a question into the search box, and “Jeeves” would deliver you an actual answer to your question – sometimes – instead of a list of sites that might have the answer to your question.
A new report published by comScore reveals search engine market share figures for December of 2013, indicating that while Google made the largest percentage gains from the previous month, Bing managed to claim a bigger piece of the search pie than they ever have in the past.
A new post published on the Bing Webmaster Blog by Duane Forrester, a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Bing, weighs in on the importance of having a web site domain name that is comprised of relevant keywords.
A new infographic from E2M Solutions breaks down the eleven most important changes that happened to Google search in 2013. The list focused on algorithm updates and changes, many of which may have had some effect on the search engine rankings of your site pages over the last year.