Bing vs Google: Anticipation for 2012

Bing has seen a tremendous growth rate in its market share as compared to the giant Google, at least in US. This is seen as emerging of new search engine giant in coming years. The projection done by Mashable suggests that Bing might take over Google in 2012, at least in United States.

Google is still leading the market with more than 60% of market share. Bing, has however seen a rapid growth in these few months. Bing has captured about 30% of market share. In September, Google had controlled about 72% of US market and Bing represented about 10% of market share. In March 2011, Bing’s share rose to 14.3%.

Google has seen a drop in market share of about 3% each month, while Bing has seen a rise in market share of 5% each month. If the constant trajectory is plotted, it is assumed that in January 2012, Bing will overtake Google.

If this happens, there will be all new era in search engine news and updates because users, experts and companies will be looking out for Bing as a benchmark in terms of rankings and advertisings. This can be seen happening since Bing has a real momentum in gain in market share and people will soon see a new search engine giant!

Google Introduces +1 Button

Well we all know about what the like option means. This like option can be viewed from various sites like twitter, youtube videos, blogs etc. Whichever post or any kind of stuff if you like it then you can go the like option. So now all search engines news have emphasized in their blogs about his latest news of +1 button.

Google has updates its Google Social Search so that you can get the most relevant answers to your search queries. You can also get even more information from the people that matter to you more, whether they’re publishing on YouTube, Flickr or their own blog or website. You will get all mixed results based on their relevance. So that is why Google introduced +1 button so you can get to know the recommendations from your friends and from other contacts related to your search.

But this +1 option can be used only if you have a Google profile. You can view all your +1's at one particular place when you use your profile, and delete some which you no longer want to recommend. To see +1’s in your Google search results you’ll need to be logged into your Google Account.

This +1 option has increased the traffic to a particular website both quality and quantity wise. But Google hasn't stopped only on this. They are working on the button so that you can recommend a particular page. We just hope that Google very soon makes search results more personal, interesting and relevant using such +1 option.

A Google A Day : Google Search Engine Puzzle

Imagine coming across a question and finding it difficult to answer. If we don’t know the perfect answer, the first thought which will cross our mind is to log on to Google and try to find the possible answer. Traditional trivia games might have brought in similar situations before us, where copying was not allowed and asking Google was not on the cards either. So, now Google has itself launched a new trivia game where you will be served a question and then the most difficult part follows: the path towards the answer!!

According to various search engine news sources commence of “A Google a Day” just a few days back, is a new daily puzzle where your creativity and problem solving skills will be put to test. The question will be posted everyday on agoogleaday.com and the answers to these will be displayed the very next day in the Times and on agoogleaday.com, which will guide you through the techniques to search and features used to find it.