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Microsoft is reportedly working on a brand new chat service that would be implemented in its Bing search engine and would allow users searching for the same things to talk to each other from the browser.
LiveSide.net writes that the tech giant is already testing the service, with some early screenshots revealing tha... |
20 May 2013
01:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has worked out a new innovative way to find the best Bing.com developer out there: the company published a new job ad that’s hiding in the source code of Bing.com.
Just like The Register reports, Internet Explorer users visiting Bing are greeted with a small message asking “Do you want to debug... |
17 May 2013
04:53 GMT |
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Microsoft today rolled out the so-called People Autosuggest, a new feature for its Bing search engine that helps you easily find someone on the Internet.
Basically, whenever you’re searching for a celebrity or simply a friend that’s already linked to your LinkedIn profile, Bing automatically provides you... |
14 May 2013
08:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently released a new feature that allows Facebook users to quickly post comments on social results listed on its Bing search engine.
Bing's social side has been improved a lot lately, so this new option is supposed to keep users on the search engine page by providing them a truly large feature ... |
11 May 2013
08:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently released a brand new commercial supposed to bring some specific Bing features in the spotlight, thus trying to demonstrate users that its search engine is actually better than Google’s. This time, the tech giant is trying to promote the built-in rollover video preview, a new option imple... |
8 May 2013
14:51 GMT |
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Microsoft keeps trying and trying to promote its Bing search engine, this time with a funny clip using the famous “Anything You Can Do” Broadway song rolled out in 1946. Bing is playing a much more important role for Microsoft right now and represents the company’s main weapon in the fight against ... |
8 May 2013
05:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently announced that MSN.com was included in the Bing Rewards program, thus allowing users to earn points by simply browsing the content published on the news portal. As usual, the points can be then exchanged for gift cards and Microsoft Points, with the credit counter displayed at the top of the c... |
7 May 2013
21:01 GMT |
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Bing for iPad has been updated to version 1.3.0. Microsoft rolled out the update this week, enabling Map Local Business category search, the ability to bookmark some stuff, and more.
Microsoft’s modest “decision engine” is designed to bring you closer to what you’re looking for by delivering ... |
1 May 2013
09:24 GMT |
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Windows 8 has been dubbed as a major overhaul of the world’s popular platform from the very beginning, but the company has worked out a much more ambitious plan. Microsoft’s Windows Phone design studio general manager Albert Shum and creative director at Wolff Olins Todd Simmons revealed some of the tech... |
29 April 2013
07:53 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced the debut of Bing Offers, a brand new service available in the United States that displays the best deal on a wide array of products in a single and easy to use interface.
The company claims that Bing Offers has one of the largest collections of local deals on the web, with the service b... |
26 April 2013
08:38 GMT |
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Bing Wallpaper Viewer is a Windows 8 application that allows users to view and download the Bing homepage photo of the day to their computer with just a few taps.The application offers support for both desktop and tablets running Microsoft’s new operating system. The program has recently received a new set of ... |
25 April 2013
13:41 GMT |
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Bing has announced that more than 50% of the search engine’s users simply click the first result. This proves how high the value of ranking first on a search results page is.
Furthermore, Dr. Ronny Kohavi of Bing’s Research & Development team, says that more than 75% click the first link if the result i... |
25 April 2013
04:01 GMT |
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The Bing search engine got blocked by browsers over the weekend due to a security certificate issue that prevented users from accessing the service through a secure connection.
Fast forward a couple of days and Microsoft is still working on a fix, even though it initially seemed to be just a minor issue that could b... |
22 April 2013
03:49 GMT |
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A malware analysis rolled out by AV-TEST a few days ago has revealed that Microsoft's Bing search delivers five times more malware-hosting links than Google, despite the company's efforts to improve the security of its search engine.
The Redmond-based tech giant has decided to fight back, explaining that A... |
20 April 2013
07:11 GMT |
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Microsoft's very own search engine Bing is currently unavailable for users who wish to access it through a secure connection due to what seems to be a security certificate issue.At this point, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer are unable to load the website, providing users wi... |
20 April 2013
01:20 GMT |
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Windows 8.1 will bring quite a lot of improvements, many of which concern the user interface, but some are also supposed to enhance the search options currently available to users. As we told you a couple of days ago, Microsoft is pondering the launch of an upgraded search tool that basically allows users to search ... |
19 April 2013
02:29 GMT |
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Windows 8.1 is expected to bring several major improvements to Windows 8, including a highly-anticipated Start button, but it seems that Microsoft is also working on introducing a completely new search experience.
A screenshot posted on Twitter by user AngelWZR reveals that Windows 8.1 build 9369 packs some new opti... |
17 April 2013
03:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has again become victim of a successful DNS hijack attempt, this time in Kenya. Bangladeshi hacker TiGER-M@TE managed to break into the servers hosted by Nairobi-based Footprint Computer Solutions and change the DNS settings of several high-profile websites belonging to Google, Kaspersky, Western Union, Del... |
16 April 2013
04:51 GMT |
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We’ve all heard about Microsoft’s anti-Google attempts, including the Scroogled campaign and the other attacks on Twitter and in blog posts, but the Windows maker is now trying something a bit different. And funnier, that is.
To refresh your memory, Google announced more than three years ago that it&rsqu... |
15 April 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Google is clearly the world’s number one search engine at this point, but new statistics released by comScore indicate that Microsoft’s Bing is attracting new users every day.
According to a new set of figures, Google Search currently holds 67.1 percent of the market, while Bing comes second with 67.1 pe... |
15 April 2013
10:21 GMT |
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Microsoft today rolled out updates for several Metro apps installed on Windows 8, including the Maps tool powered by Bing.According to the official release notes published in the Windows Store, the app comes with walking and transit directions, but also with dedicated options to find nearby locations by category.In a... |
15 April 2013
04:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has just released a brand new update for its own search engine, adding Pinterest support for the image search option.
From now on, users are allowed to quickly pin images to their Pinterest accounts by using the dedicated button displayed on each picture's page.
"Now, you can pin image results direct... |
13 April 2013
09:11 GMT |
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Bing Ads Editor, a helpful application designed to allow users to create and manage advertising campaigns straight from their desktops, has just received an update compatible with every Windows version released so far.The official changelog for this new release points to some improvements to the keywords performance ... |
12 April 2013
12:51 GMT |
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Apart from their obvious job of providing relevant results, search engines have an equally important one to protect their users from malware ridden sites. These sites may be purely malicious or they may be legitimate sites that have been infected.
Either way, they pose a danger to their visitors. All search engines ... |
12 April 2013
09:16 GMT |
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Both Google and Microsoft struggle to improve their search engines and provide more relevant results to their users, but a new study carried out by AV-TEST revealed that only the Mountain View-based tech giant has obtained significant results in this regard. The company analyzed a total of 40 million websites over a... |
12 April 2013
08:39 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently working on lots of new projects, some of which could bring new versions of Windows or even more Surface tablets in the coming years. A study conducted by Griffin Securities and published by the Wall Street Journal reveals that Microsoft is currently looking to hire more than 2,000 people, most... |
10 April 2013
20:21 GMT |
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As you probably know by now, regardless of whether you’re using Bing on a regular basis or not, Microsoft’s search engine publishes a new high-resolution homepage image each day, thus trying to provide users with a fresh background regularly. According to a blog post published by the Bing team, this home... |
4 April 2013
03:39 GMT |
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Microsoft is no stranger to attacks aimed at its longtime Mountain View-based search rival Google, so the software maker used the April Fools’ Day to poke fun at the company that currently owns the world’s number one search engine. Basically, users who go to Bing.com and type in “Google” in t... |
1 April 2013
09:55 GMT |
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Bing is quickly gaining more users, proving Microsoft that all its anti-Google efforts are worth every cent. The company continues not only to attack its Mountain View-based rival (even though it rarely does it these days) but, at the same time, it also brags about its very own search service.
Lawrence Ripsher, a me... |
28 March 2013
18:21 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to improve Bing, even though statistics demonstrate that Google remains the number one search engine on the web.
The company has introduced a time sorting option for the results page, thus allowing users to see only the links published in the past 24 hours, week or month.
“Behind the scene... |
28 March 2013
17:11 GMT |
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It’s a well-known fact that Microsoft is now working to move all users from Hotmail to Outlook.com, but it seems like the transition is now almost completed. The company has finally removed the Hotmail link from the official Bing search engine page, replacing it with a link to Outlook.com, Microsoft’s ke... |
28 March 2013
06:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has just introduced a new update for the Snapshot column of its Bing search engine, providing users with more information on specific search queries.
From now on, Snapshot will also display social information from Facebook, Twitter and Klout for celebrities, so searching for someone’s name might retu... |
22 March 2013
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is reportedly testing a new Bing homepage design that showcases the popular searches right on the main page using small image thumbnails displayed in a live slider. While we can’t see the new design at the time of writing this article, WinBeta.org notes that some Windows 8 users have actually spotted... |
19 March 2013
16:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has been working on dethroning Google, or at least grabbing a bigger piece of the search pie for years. It's gotten desperate lately with the string of Scroogled ads, but this doesn't seem to be working either.
If anything, Google is doing better than ever, it commanded 67.5 percent of the search... |
14 March 2013
14:51 GMT |
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Just as we told you a few days ago, Microsoft officially introduced the new Bing Desktop 1.2, bringing not only several bug fixes, but also important new features aimed at all Windows users.The company has now detailed the changes it made to the new version, explaining that Bing Desktop is now focused a lot more on t... |
12 March 2013
02:40 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently released a new Bing Desktop version that comes with several improvements and bug fixes for all Windows platforms.
Bing Desktop 1.2.113.0 comes with Facebook integration, so you can login to the social network and see content published on your wall straight from your desktop.
In addition, the ... |
9 March 2013
10:01 GMT |
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Redmond-based technology titan Microsoft has just rolled out a major update for its Bing Maps service, introducing new high-resolution satellite imagery and bathymetry data from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
According to Microsoft, the new update comes with over 13 million square kilometers of updated satelli... |
1 March 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Microsoft officially rolled out the Windows 7 version of Internet Explorer 10 a couple of days ago, so the Bing team worked very fast to release its very own flavor of the browser.
The company has just unveiled Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 with MSN and Bing, a so-called “enhanced version” of the ne... |
28 February 2013
01:37 GMT |
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Windows 8 comes with several pre-installed Modern apps, including a Bing search tool for those who wish to quickly search the Internet without leaving the Metro interface. While the Bing search app is clearly a very convenient tool for many users, it’s just a minor element of a deeper integration that allows u... |
20 February 2013
12:31 GMT |
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It’s not a surprise anymore that Microsoft is struggling to make Bing one of the top choices for users looking for a search engine, so the company has just rolled out a new video to show the Bing – Facebook integration at work.
Evan Lew, director of Product Marketing at Bing, explains how this integratio... |
19 February 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 user interface design principle is being adopted by the company for some other products too, including the Friends’ Photo tool on its Bing search engine.
The Redmond-based technology giant has just released a new fresh look for this particular option, using a live tile layout simila... |
19 February 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Microsoft Corporation is out with a new version of its (not-so-hot) search engine, Bing, for mobile platforms. Having already been available on iPhone and iPod touch, a native iPad version was required. And today, it’s here. Microsoft is proud to release its iPad-native version of Bing iOS, delivering full sup... |
18 February 2013
05:59 GMT |
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It’s no surprise that Bill Gates is defending the products released by the company he founded, but the chairman said in an AMA session on Reddit that Microsoft’s search engine was actually better than Google’s.
He hasn’t said it directly though, but Gates mentioned that “Bing was the be... |
12 February 2013
12:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has been pouring billions into Bing and, more recently, into hate-filled ad campaigns, to get a piece of the ad money pie that Google gets to savor almost all by itself.Microsoft's search engine has been making some progress, but it seems that others with much smaller budgets are growing a lot faster t... |
9 February 2013
10:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently announced that the built-in Windows 8 Bing app would also display video results, in addition to links and image results. The update is available in 12 countries and “makes it easier to scan, explore and discover videos,” as the company said in a blog post. The new Bing app is avai... |
8 February 2013
20:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is really keen on showing everybody that Bing is a much better search engine than Google, so the company performed one more test involving nearly 1,000 people. The study performed by Answers Research, an independent company based in San Diego, revealed that 52 percent of respondents preferred Bing’s ... |
7 February 2013
16:31 GMT |
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Perion Network, the company behind IncrediMail, Smilebox and SweetIM, has just announced a new agreement with Microsoft that will allow Bing to power its very own search services.
Bing’s search technology will thus be implemented into Perion’s safe search services, some of which are also available in the... |
6 February 2013
16:21 GMT |
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Microsoft continues its fight with Google over whose search engine is better, this time with an attempt to convince users to dump the Mountain View-based company on Valentine’s Day.
Microsoft claims that one in 10 people say February means the end for relationships gone bad, so this is the right time to give G... |
4 February 2013
10:29 GMT |
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Microsoft continues its work on the Bing search engine, trying to make it better than Google’s, so the company has just released a video to showcase the way your Facebook account can be integrated into the search results page.
If you log in with your Facebook username and password when you use Bing, the social... |
26 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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