Indeed, people are going to a search engine to search for...a search engine.
That doesn't mean that semantic search won't someday offer results that Google doesn't, says Chris Sherman, a search engine analyst and blogger for Search Engine Land.
Yesterday I browsed though the search engine Yandex, which is our number one search engine, and one of the major systems for such information in the world.
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"As a search engine, Google's job is to point at things, " says Danny Sullivan, a search analyst and blogger for Search Engine Land.
Already, the search engine has spawned businesses such as search-engine marketing and optimization, or Web arbitragers, and companies that live by serving Google's voracious computing needs (see: " The Search Industrial Complex").
Those measures have lessened concern over the aQuantive deal among search engine marketing firms, says Jeff Pruitt, president of Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization.
Barry Schwartz, a blogger for search marketing site Search Engine Roundtable, says that even though his pagerank dropped from seven to four on a scale from one to 10, he hasn't seen a falloff in traffic from Google searches or even a drop in his site's placement in Google's search results.
The software, originally spread through classic methods such as spam, has moved on to more sophisticated attacks by providing links to infected web sites through popular social media content such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, by feeding a corrupted advertisement into an ad network for web sites, and by poisoning search results called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning.
If you search for something outside Graph Search's purview, it will return search results from Microsoft's Bing search engine.
And what if Facebook eventually expands its Graph Search to a fuller search engine that is accessible from Facebook Home?
This means Google will track what you search for in its search engine facility and then use that intelligence to its advantage.
Their PageRank system began delivering far more relevant Web search results than the search engine giants of the day, Yahoo and Lycos.
In the same way, Sergey Brin and Larry Page initially resisted supporting their search engine with advertising: "The issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm, " they wrote in 1998.
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For reference, go ahead and try a stock quote search on your favorite mobile search engine.
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Google-owned properties like YouTube, Blogger, Google Images and Google Maps already show up frequently in Google search results, points out search engine marketer Rand Fishkin.
However, findings from a Greenlight survey suggest that Facebook could potentially capture close to a quarter of the search market with its own search engine.
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Facebook announced today Graph Search, a new social search engine that crawls private information (photos, places, interests) that people share on the social network site.
Microsoft hasn't shown any sign of making a similar move, says Danny Sullivan, a search industry analyst and blogger for Search Engine Land.
"Last year wasn't a great year for Eric, " said Danny Sullivan, an expert in the online search industry who runs the blog Search Engine Land.
Danny Sullivan, a search industry expert and blogger for Search Engine Land, concurs with Cutts: There's nothing nefarious about Google's protecting its user-focused emphasis on relevant results, he says.
Companies spend massive dollars on display ad networks to generate awareness which then results in intent-laden search queries for products leading to search engine marketing ads. dCommerce is shifting product discovery away from display advertising to product presence in user feeds on social networks such as Pinterest.
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Real-time search company Topsy has launched a new search engine for Google Plus.
We examined the latest Labor Department unemployment rates for the 50 largest metro areas in the country as well as the monthly Job Search Difficulty Index, published by job search engine Juju.com.
Next come informational websites and Web search results provided by Microsoft's Bing search engine.
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Google has an enterprise search business that largely relies on its web search engine.
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Facebook has sponsored search for apps but not for the general search engine.
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Earlier this month, Facebook unveiled a social search engine called Graph Search, which it has described as a key pillar for the business.
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Last January, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a search engine called Wikia Search, a purported "Google-killer" that aimed to edit and refine search results with the same methods that have made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon--the contributions of thousands of volunteers.
China's search giant Baidu is trying to fend off rival search engine Qihoo 360, launched less than a fortnight ago.
"Google shouldn't be excused, but neither should it be singled out, " says Danny Sullivan, a search industry analyst and writer for the Web site Search Engine Land.
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