Yahoo will today unveil the latest step towards democratising the news by unleashing Yahoo Upshot, a news blog based entirely around search data and trending topics. This new approach towards journalism gives great power to the online community as their interests will essentially determine what is newsworthy, rather than the traditional powerbase of news editors assessing the value of incoming latest stories.
Microsoft’s new ‘decision engine’ Bing had a successful month in May as it continued its struggle to usurp Google from the much coveted spot of top search engine. While Google maintained its dominance at the top of the search engine market, there were clear signs according to latest figures from Hitwise that both Yahoo and Bing are beginning to cut into the number of searches hosted by the long term market leaders.
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