Russian Search Giant Yandex is in Turkey
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on October 3, 2011
Yandex has finally announced that it is in Turkish market with a pres meeting held today. Founded in 1993, Russian search engine Yandex has the largest market share by 64% in Russia. Yandex has been continuing its work in Turkey for a few months and made a relatively large team, while the company had been meeting [...]
Şirketçe.com Is Improving With Semantics Module
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on March 29, 2011
Şirketçe.com is a start-up of Beriltech, founded by Devrim Demirel, and now we can use this service with its new face. Semantics module is used in the service for the first time, which has been developed since 2007. Şirketçe.com includes 265 thousand businesses, and it is planning to reach 500 thousand by the end of [...]
Internet or Google?
One Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 9, 2009
Google’s advances push me to deeper thinking on this subject since the article I questioned whether Google might swallow the Internet. The latest news that fired this idea was on Gmail’s innovation in the past days. As is well known, Google let us continue our e-mail addiction in places that do not have internet access with [...]
Bravoo Is Closing!
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on October 9, 2009
Update: One of the employees of the company sent Webrazzi exclusive information about the issue. You can read the e-mail that we received on the closing of Bravoo on our new post. Bravoo was launched about a year ago, and today, faxed its customers announcing that it is closing. Upon Omer Enis Sen informed Webrazzi [...]
Google Loses Search Market Share to Bing and Yahoo
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on September 18, 2009
According to Nielsen’s search engine market report for July, Google lost some ground. According to the US report, Yahoo’s growth shot up by 11%, and Bing’s 8%, while Google’s growth rate is only at around 3%. Apparently, Microsoft and Yahoo’s partnership caught the users’ attention, after Bing got its share by its marketing campaigns.
iGoogle Is Now More Social!
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on September 18, 2009
Google’s customizable home page iGoogle has a more social form now. Google has introduced 18 new gadgets for iGoogle as of yesterday. Google created some of these gadgets, and most of them are created by third party producers. The share feature on its menu is the gadgets’ main feature. This feature enables you to share [...]
Now, Google vs. Apple!
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on September 18, 2009
Recently, we have been witnessing a competition between Google and Microsoft boiling in search engine field, however today there is a lot going on between Google and Apple. In the recent days Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple’s Board of Directors. The reason is considered to be conflict of interest. Here, conflict of interest means [...]
We are the Most Googling Country
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on September 18, 2009
It has been more than 3 years since Google launched its Turkey office and since then, the number of Turkish Internet users have increased by 50%. Everybody knows that Google is superior in the search engine market. Nevertheless, Steve Ballmer seems determined to challenge Google with the latest Microsoft-Yahoo search technologies deal, even though Microsoft’s [...]
Spezify: Visual Search Engine
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on September 18, 2009
These days, well-known search engines have started to become outdated, and interest in semantic search is continuing to grow. In this sense, we see Spezify as a successful initiative. Stockholm-based Spezify finds rich visual content using APIs of various search engines and websites and orders this content in its page again with a visually rich [...]
Yahoo and Microsoft Unite Against Google
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on September 18, 2009
Since Microsoft released its new search engine Bing as a move to refresh itself, we have a clue of what Microsoft can do against the search giant Google within its future plans. Rumors had it that, Microsoft was in pursuit of a partnership, when considering its relations with Yahoo. Now, we have left all the [...]