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Microsoft responded to allegations that its search/decision engine was delivering sanitized result to sensitive queries related to China in order to keep in line with the country’s communist dictatorship. Adam Sohn, Bing senior director, disputed accusations that the Bing search engine had been turned into a p... |
23 November 2009
06:06 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to push forward with efforts to expand its mapping, search and location platform. While Bing Maps, formerly Virtual Earth and Live Search Maps, is essentially a Cloud based application covering the entire world, the company does focus on specific markets more than on others. Case in point: Bing Ma... |
20 November 2009
07:12 GMT |
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The search landscape is still evolving even if at its usual slow pace. Not too much has changed in October, Google still clearly dominates and has actually picked up a little market share in the last month, but the other two players are bit more dynamic. Yahoo took quite a significant dive, dropping almost 1 percent... |
18 November 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Twitter looks to be as popular as ever, judging by all the attention it's been getting, but for several months traffic numbers in the US have been stalling and they've actually dropped in October from the previous month, going from 20.9 to just 19.2 million, according to comScore numbers. Traffic has been ... |
13 November 2009
09:41 GMT |
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When it comes down to Microsoft’s search/decision engine, some users are “more equal than others.” The Redmond company’s focus on English-speaking markets is obvious, initially with US users becoming first-class citizens of Bing, and now with the decision engine shading its Beta tag for UK cus... |
13 November 2009
06:14 GMT |
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In May 2009, when I asked the father of Wolfram|Alpha, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, Stephen Wolfram, whether search giants had shown any interest in the computational knowledge engine that was about to be launched, the answer was a positive one. On November 11, 2009, Microsoft confirmed interest in Wo... |
12 November 2009
06:01 GMT |
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After cannibalizing Live Search and additional brands related to the moniker used for Microsoft’s former search engine, Bing now swallowed MSN Video. Through the marriage between Bing and MSN Video, Microsoft has created Bing Videos, essentially rebranding the old MSN service under the brand umbrella for its se... |
11 November 2009
07:29 GMT |
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Microsoft has some sweet prizes lined up for users with a Bing Cashback account, whether already created, or one that will be produced on the spot, provided that they sign up for the $10k in L.A. Bing cashback Sweepstakes. The Redmond company is essentially offering a trip to Los Angeles, along with no less than $10,... |
10 November 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Microsoft’s mapping, location, and search platform is an integral part of the experience offered to end users by YeallowPages.com, but the Redmond company and AT&T Interactive (the owner of the Yellow Pages.com website) have taken it one step further. In this regard, users that will access the mobile flav... |
9 November 2009
05:26 GMT |
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It’s almost that time of the year again, and Microsoft is not wasting any time getting into the holiday spirit. The company has all the ingredients available, Santa Claus, elves, Christmas tree, and even a kid that persistently wants an Xbox 360 and would hear nothing else. Just watch the video embedded at the ... |
5 November 2009
09:33 GMT |
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MSNBot 2.0b will kill MSNBot 1.1 in the evolution of the crawler associated with Microsoft’s search / decision engine. Bing inherited MSNBot 1.1 from Live Search, but even ahead of the rebranding of its search engine, the Redmond company was already working on the next iteration of the crawler. In fact, versio... |
5 November 2009
08:19 GMT |
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Microsoft has drastically overhauled the MSN butterfly logo and the portal that goes along with it, but not all of the website’s 600 million visitors per month will be able to enjoy the changes. The Redmond company has limited the MSN redesign, which it catalogued as the most significant MSN home page revamp i... |
4 November 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft released a few months ago a revamped and re-branded search engine, Bing, which also came to mobile phones shortly after the initial launch, and which now has seen as series of improvements on the mobile side. Up until now, the company has been mainly focused on enhancing the cap... |
31 October 2009
06:49 GMT |
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The search landscape is getting a lot more complicated lately and all the major players are moving beyond just the traditional search, adding new elements like real time and social search. Google and Microsoft both announced a deal with Twitter to integrate content from the microblogging service into their search res... |
27 October 2009
04:16 GMT |
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Even before it rebranded its search engine, Bing, killing off Live Search, Microsoft debuted an experiment that turned into a de facto characteristic of its decision engine. Users of Bing have undoubtedly noticed that the search engine features a different picture every day as a background. Some of the Bing wallpaper... |
23 October 2009
11:27 GMT |
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Bing is growing, and in more directions than one. The latest evolutionary step for Microsoft’s search/decision engine involves embracing the “real time” components of the web. “Real time “ has always been an elusive goal for search engines, at least until Twitter came along. Suddenly, th... |
22 October 2009
11:06 GMT |
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The search world is changing and it's becoming more complex and more spread out. The big search engines are doing a great job at recovering the static information available on the World Wide Web but a much poorer one with real-time information or with social search. But that is changing with both Bing and Google... |
22 October 2009
09:09 GMT |
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Facebook is the biggest social network in the world, by a fair margin, so it's bound to have some very impressive stats regarding usage and the amount of data it processes. Usually the numbers that do come out are from all manner of third-party research firms and the data can be a little unreliable. Speaking at ... |
22 October 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Real time is the talk of the town these days but so far the big search engines have been outmaneuvered by small startups. Twitter is currently 'the' place for real-time information but the means of accessing it are still lacking. Twitter's own search engine is a good place to start but it is fairly lim... |
22 October 2009
03:57 GMT |
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In the first half of this year Microsoft killed off Live Search and built the Bing search decision engine in its place. While only time will tell whether Bing is truly the anti-Google, the move is proving a success, at least on some markets. According to statistics made available by the Redmond company, the number of... |
21 October 2009
08:57 GMT |
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The proposed Microsoft – Yahoo deal made waves last summer but it still has to get the approval of the regulatory bodies before moving forward and a deal involving the number two and the number three search engines in the market is likely to fall under a lot of scrutiny. But as it awaits approval, it's get... |
20 October 2009
04:06 GMT |
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And indeed, Microsoft has launched a Bing rocket. Not the Redmond company itself, but rather DigitalGlobe, one of the software giant’s partners and supplier of satellite imagery for Bing Maps. The past week, DigitalGlobe’s Boeing Delta II 7920 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California t... |
16 October 2009
08:05 GMT |
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After good signs from Google, a couple of reports also claim that the online ad market is on the rebound, growing compared to the previous quarter and staying flat or slightly below the level it was at last year, depending on the report. Meanwhile Google seems to be doing all right compared to its previous earning re... |
13 October 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Microsoft has introduced a new contest set up to search for the rocket design of tomorrow from kids from grades K-12 in the US. The Mission: 10,000 Rockets initiative is intimately connected with the company’s Bing search decision engine, and is aimed to get students interested in not just rockets and rocketry ... |
12 October 2009
10:29 GMT |
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The launch day of Windows Mobile 6.5 has come and gone, and now users will have to discover on their own all the goodies that Microsoft promised would come around with the new operating system flavor. The Redmond-based company has shown a great focus on the development of the new flavor of its Windows Mobile platform... |
8 October 2009
08:43 GMT |
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Microsoft is attempting to position Bing Reference as nothing short of the key source on the web for all users’ reference needs. This according to Tom Bogart, senior program manager, Powerset Division of Bing, whose team was in fact responsible for building Bing Reference. Concomitantly with the introduction of... |
8 October 2009
07:18 GMT |
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A new user interface included into Samsung Intrepid, courtesy of Microsoft, allows users to perform search queries into Bing using nothing more than simple voice commands. Although a full QUERTY mobile phone, Samsung Intrepid makes it easier for customers to not only find what they’re looking for on the Interne... |
7 October 2009
08:06 GMT |
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A recently published report from StatCounter shows that Bing, the recently launched search / decision engine from Redmond-based software company Microsoft, has registered market share loss during September, both on the US market and globally. This is the first month during which Bing sees its market share fall, and S... |
1 October 2009
08:44 GMT |
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Bing has been launched for less than four months now and Microsoft is already planning Bing 2.0. But until then the “1.0” version seems to be doing just fine. Whether it's because of the new features and overall improved search experience or the $100 million ad money Microsoft poured into an all-out ... |
22 September 2009
09:27 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed an issue related to its tool for webmasters, indicating that the addition of new websites to its decision/search engine is not functioning momentarily. According to the Redmond company, the Add a Site option is not working for various localized versions of Bing. I have just tried it and can co... |
18 September 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Microsoft’s search/decision engine is outpacing rivals and future partners when it comes down to growth rate in the United States, according to statistics provided by Internet metrics company Nielsen. It appears that the Redmond company’s overhauled search engine feeding off the death of Live Search is in... |
17 September 2009
05:34 GMT |
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While owning the lion’s share of the search engine market, Google has yet to introduce an innovative feature at the same level with Microsoft’s Bing Visual Search. Available in beta development stage since September 14th, 2009, Visual Search allows end users, as the moniker implies, to transform a search ... |
15 September 2009
09:56 GMT |
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Microsoft is making it easier for companies leveraging its advertising platform to check how Bing is displaying their advertisements. In this regard, the Redmond-based company revealed that it had incorporated customer feedback in developing a new feature for Microsoft adCenter. As of September 20th, 2009, companies ... |
11 September 2009
06:32 GMT |
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The addition of background images is a feature that contributes to the differentiation of user experiences in Microsoft’s decision/search engine versus Google. All the images that are featured as daily Bing wallpapers are downloadable via a simple right click and the Save Background As option, provided that you... |
8 September 2009
10:40 GMT |
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Looking to get a taste of all the nuances that Microsoft’s Bing has to offer? You could be surprised to find out that you might need taste buds in order to experience all that Bing has to offer. Especially when it comes down to the all-natural taste of Bing, which Microsoft managed to capture in a can. As you c... |
7 September 2009
08:37 GMT |
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What if Bing could be more than search, and more than a decision engine? What if the successor of Live Search could be an excellent place to start getting in touch with friends, and a catalyst for sharing the information returned to queries? This is precisely what Microsoft aims to do with Bing & Ping. Details are sc... |
4 September 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Microsoft has made it a tradition to extend the new content available to end users via Bing Maps from month to month. In this context, August makes no exception to this rule, with the month bringing with it yet another refresh for the Redmond company’s mapping, search and location platform. For August 2009, Mic... |
1 September 2009
09:59 GMT |
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The global search market continues to soar, having grown 41 percent in the past year. In July 2009, Internet users all over the world conducted more than 113 billion searches, a big rise over the 80 billion in July last year. While most search engines saw some growth, Google stood out with an impressive 58 percent in... |
1 September 2009
04:03 GMT |
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The Yahoo-Microsoft deal is far from being closed and its effects are long reaching. Still, while it represented a milestone and the culmination of several years of talks between the two giants, when the deal was finally struck its terms were less than impressive for most shareholders, with Yahoo stock price dropping... |
31 August 2009
10:39 GMT |
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The Bing Cashback program is without a doubt one of the strongest assets of the latest generation of Microsoft’s search engine. In fact, the Redmond company has positioned the successor of Live Search, not just as a search engine, but as a new breed of service, designed not only to help users search, but also d... |
31 August 2009
07:00 GMT |
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For Google every millisecond counts. This is true for all its products but it's especially important for its search engine. While some would argue that today's search engines are already too fast for any improvement to be noticeable, it hasn't stopped any of them from constantly making speed-related ch... |
31 August 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has discontinued the Bing Double Cashback promotion, pulling the plug on the marketing initiative a few days earlier than initially planned. Apparently, the reason for wrapping up early the promotion was the immense success that it enjoyed with customers. The Redmond company has only a limited amount of cas... |
28 August 2009
11:52 GMT |
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Microsoft is little shy of attempting to take its latest Search Engine incarnation beyond the limits of a desktop browser. In this regard, the Redmond company is now providing the tools and resources necessary for developers to integrate Bing with Mac OS X and iPhone. On August 27th, 2009, the software giant announce... |
28 August 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Yahoo Search has already started to be replaced on some Yahoo properties but not with Bing as one might expect but with Google. British Telecom's portal for its broadband subscribers, created in collaboration with Yahoo, has decided to switch to Google to power the search portion of the site. The rest of the ser... |
28 August 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Microsoft indicated that the 2009 holiday fares would be approximately at the same level as back in 2007 and certainly lower than in 2008. Information provided via Bing Travel, a vertical of the Bing decision/search engine, reveals that travelers would be able to enjoy fares that are more than 17% lower than for the ... |
27 August 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Yahoo has been on a roll lately, releasing a new version of its popular instant messenger, Yahoo Messenger 10, adding some features to the biggest web mail service in the world, Yahoo Mail, and redesigning its search results page. But it’s not done yet, as Yahoo has announced another new feature, this time to i... |
27 August 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Microsoft is assuring customers using its adCenter platform that they are not charged for the clicks generated by MSNBot. Rajesh Srivastava, principal group program manager, Bing, responded to discussions pointing out that the Bing crawler clicks on the company’s own adCenter ads. The Redmond company is not den... |
26 August 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Rounding up the set of updated products, Yahoo has just launched, perhaps surprisingly, an improved search experience with a bunch of new features and design tweaks to show that, not only Yahoo Search isn't dead, it's actually getting some serious development focus. Still, some of the changes were most like... |
25 August 2009
12:08 GMT |
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The recent days have seen a great increase in rumors of a Bing and Wolfram Alpha collaboration. TechCrunch, ZDNet, Cnet and Search Engine Land have reported that a possible licensing deal has been reached between the two search engines. Nobody wants to see a monopoly in any kind of activity domain, and for sure users... |
24 August 2009
10:37 GMT |
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A couple of months ago Wolfram Alpha was launched with much fanfare. The new search engine tried to be different and for the most part it succeeded. But different doesn't necessarily mean better and, while it did bring some very interesting features to the table, it failed to get much traction and traffic number... |
21 August 2009
10:55 GMT |
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