INTERNET SEARCHES FOR VETTING, INVESTIGATIONS, AND INTELLIGENCE
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Yahoo! (yahoo.com) is reputed to have over 4 billion pages indexed
and a 16.89% share of searches conducted in March 2010. Because
of agreements with Microsoft’s Bing, it is unknown at this writ-
ing whether a Yahoo! search may actually employ the Bing search
engine. Yahoo! Search ranks by keyword density and integrates its
directories and other services (which are similar to Google’s) well
with searching. Boolean search protocols are much like Google’s.
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Bing, a Microsoft service, has updated its search engine (since June
2009 called a “decision engine”) and in midsummer of 2009 agreed
to power Yahoo! Search. Bing’s market share was 11.7% in March
2010. Bing includes semantic ...