Google Tweaks Algorithm As Concern Over Bing Grows

SharkLaser writes "As Bing gets closer to capturing almost 33% of the market share in the U.S., Google has again made a large tweak to its algorithms to provide more up-to-the-minute search results. The change affects around 35% of queries and is intended to give users more recent news and stories. For breaking news stories the search engine will now weight more heavily the most recent coverage, and not just those sites that are linked the most, and for general terms the search engine values fresh content more than old. Google is hoping that these recent new changes will provide better search experience and stops users from switching over to Bing, which just recently launched its own GroupOn like site."

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[mcgrew]

Hmmm... Google for "biters anonymous" and my old humorous K5 diary entry from 2005 about biting trolls still comes up first. I would expect that a newer item would, so apparently they didn't change it enough to screw it up.

As to Bing getting 33%, that's not surprising. Every new PC comes with Bing as the default search engine, and when I installed AVG Free on my notebook (haven't got Linux on it yet) it not only changed my search engine from Google back to Bing, it added a goddamned Bing toolbar!

Microsoft hasn't changed its evil ways, it seems.