Last month saw what seemed to be a significant milestone in the battle for search market share as Bing broke the 30% mark by powering 30.01% of U.S. searches with 14.32% coming from Bing.com and 15.69% coming from Bing-powered Yahoo Search. Google saw its lead decline from 66.69% to 64.42% in just the...

  After several months of anticipation, Google released its new social networking feature ‘Google Plus One’ (or Google+1) in what, at least superficially, appears to be an attempt to compete with Facebook’s wildly popular ‘Like’ feature. This could have a wide-ranging impact on online...