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Google can't stay on top forever, can they? Someone will eventually build a better search, right?
[ Closed ] on 2009-09-25 EDT, Unanswered
  172 News 3 Comments Report Wemmick Wemmick (*)
Travel booking is changing from brick & morter to click and order. Several agressive relationship marketing companies have entered the market. One according to Travel Weekly is already in the top 35 ...
[ Closed ] on 2009-09-28 EDT, Unanswered
  0 News 2 Comments Report RobertsResorts RobertsResorts (*)
Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Jan 7, 08, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disru...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST, Unanswered
  21 News 16 Comments Report will101 will101 (*)

Will Cuil (search engine) be acquired in 2008?

[ Predicted ] status quo (86% chance)
Cuil (pronounced "cool", according to the creators) is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST, Unanswered
  7 News 4 Comments Report zhou-laoli zhou-laoli (206)

When will Microsoft integrate Powerset semantic search into Live Search?

[ Predicted ] after Q4 2008 or never (61% chance)
Looks like Microsoft is taking a completely different approach in expanding its web search after the failed attempt to acquire Yahoo. This time Microsoft decides to get the next hot thing in the compu...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST, Unanswered
  20 News 4 Comments Report Homer Homer (*)

Disqualify 14-Year-Old Chinese Gymnasts?

[ End Result ] Still Qualified
Are they 14? Are they 16? Questions about the Chinese women have been swirling for months, with media reports and online records suggesting that He, Yang and Jiang might be as young as 14. Gymnasts ...
[ Scored ] on 2008-09-09 EDT
  6 News 6 Comments Report osagee osagee (282)

Will the New Cuil Search Engline be more popular than Google in 2012?

[ Predicted ] No, Google > Cuil (80% chance)
Cuil just went live yesterday. I know it sounds totally redundant to have another search engine on the Internet. But this one is a bit different from Google in which it returns result based on releva...
[ Closed ] on 2008-08-28 EDT, Unanswered
  12 News 12 Comments Report humme humme (*)
Before our Chicago SEO firm or our Chicago web design company starts work on a project, we create a unique plan (every client and their search engine optimization and search engine marketing needs is d...
[ Closed ] on 2008-12-17 EST, Unanswered
  6 News 0 Comments Report seogroup seogroup (*)

Will MS successfully acquire Yahoo by July?

[ End Result ] No the deal is canceled
It is not a rumor this time. Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6b in cash and shares. Yahoo has been struggling in recent years to compete with Google, which has also...
[ Scored ] on 2008-07-08 EDT
  47 News 13 Comments Report jiipy jiipy (*)

Who will Acquire Powerset by Oct 2008?

[ End Result ] Microsoft
Powerset.com is a natural language search engine. A San Francisco-based company, Powerset was founded in 2005 and is funded by Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, Paperboy Ventures, and a number of ange...
[ Scored ] on 2008-07-01 EDT
  3 News 3 Comments Report nokia nokia (*)
Last night, Google made one of the more significant product announcements in company history, entering the realm of "cloud computing" - essentially allowing any developer to utilize the infrastructure...
[ Closed ] on 2008-05-08 EDT, Unanswered
  122 News 4 Comments Report banker banker (*)
According to this report, Google continued to increase its share of the U.S. search market in February, widening the gap that Microsoft hopes to fill by buying Yahoo. But the question which search eng...
[ Closed ] on 2008-04-22 EDT, Unanswered
  122 News 10 Comments Report Homer Homer (*)
http://www.informa... The search engine aims to reach the 40 million women whose demographic is being described as "Chief Household Officer." Yahoo has launched Yahoo Shine, a site for what Yahoo say...
[ Closed ] on 2008-04-30 EDT, Unanswered
  74 News 6 Comments Report Guru Guru (*)
Microsoft is in the process of acquiring Yahoo. MS is willing to offer to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6B. As the time of writing this, the market cap of Yahoo is $37.69B. If the deal...
[ Scored ] on 2008-04-02 EDT
  8 News 4 Comments Report Milo Milo (*)
Microsoft is in the process of acquiring Yahoo. MS is willing to offer to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6B. As the time of writing this, the market cap of Yahoo is $37.69B. If the deal...
[ Scored ] on 2008-02-29 EST
  4 News 3 Comments Report Milo Milo (*)