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The new Bing Central promises to be a one stop location for everything related to Microsoft’s search / decision engine. The new hub does focus quite a lot on the Bing Rewards program, but at the same time, offers an impressive collection of resources, information, guidance, and a set of options that put users i... |
8 November 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Most big search engines, well, the two big web search engines, generally agree on the top results, especially for popular queries.There are a few exceptions and some cases where it seems the search engines are being a bit more courteous with each other than you'd expect.One perfect example for this is the search... |
7 November 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced the release of Bing 3.0 for iOS, a brand new decision engine “designed to work beautifully on your iPhone.”“Whatever you're looking for, Bing can find it and help you get there—down the street, the other side of the world, or somewhere in between—Bing has the... |
4 November 2011
08:29 GMT |
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Not only did Microsoft push adCenter to the next level this week, but the company also upgraded the Bing Webmaster Tools. And in fact, with the fall 2011 update, the software giant bridged Bing Webmaster Tools and adCenter. According to Microsoft’s Duane Forrester, webmasters leveraging the Bing tools will ... |
4 November 2011
07:51 GMT |
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HTML5 is playing a key role in closing the gap between Bing apps for mobile platforms and the actual search / decision engine from Microsoft.
The latest update to the Bing for Mobile app brings the user experience on par with what m.bing.com has to offer, revealed Santanu Basu, product manager, Bing for Mobile.
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3 November 2011
05:40 GMT |
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The evolution of Bing has taken Microsoft’s decision engine beyond search, making it capable of connecting people, not just returning results to user queries.
At least this is what Sean Suchter believes. Suchter, who heads up Bing’s social search team on Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus, is chara... |
2 November 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Any handset running under Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.5 Mango platform can provide users with the ability to find nearby places even when in areas where he / she has never been to before.
Windows Phone 7.5 brings along great Bing integration, and Local Scout is the feature that enables users to find restaurant... |
1 November 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Among the features that Bing has available for the owners of devices running under the Windows Phone Mango operating system, we can count Bing Vision Search, through which users are provided with results for searches that cannot be performed normally.
Using the camera on their devices, users can easily snap photos ... |
31 October 2011
13:01 GMT |
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About a month ago, Microsoft has started to deliver to its Windows Phone users a new mobile OS flavor, called Mango, which packs a wide range of appealing features, some of which can be seen detailed in the video embedded above.
Coming from Windows Phone UK's official YouTube channel, the video shows us how se... |
31 October 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, the latest flavor of Microsoft's mobile operating system, arrives on devices with a wide range of appealing features, including integrated Bing features for an enhanced user experience.
Bing Search is one of the capabilities that Mango features built-in, providing users with fast acces... |
28 October 2011
07:08 GMT |
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Mozilla has slowly been warming up to Bing, first through the addition of a search option, and now with a custom flavor of Firefox featuring Microsoft’s search / decision engine center-stage. It’s an important step for Bing, especially considering that a few years ago, Mozilla’s open source browser ... |
27 October 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Mozilla has a very interesting announcement to make for Bing fans out there, it's debuting a Bing-ified version of Firefox which comes with Bing as the default search engine as well as the homepage."Mozilla and Bing are pleased to make available Firefox with Bing, a customized version of Firefox that sets Bing a... |
26 October 2011
13:11 GMT |
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It took almost two years, but Yahoo has finally switched all of its search sites over to Bing, with the sole exception of South Korea. What's more, all search partners that had integrated Yahoo Search features are being powered by Bing as well.Yahoo made the most progress, in terms of the number of countries swi... |
19 October 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Even though it's not the first time, Yahoo and Bing have been caught again serving malware through their advertised results, and this time the malicious element involved is the infamous Sirefef, also known as ZeroAccess and Max++.GFI Labs blog reveals that the cybervillains have changed the malevolent file that ... |
14 October 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Windows Phone Mango, the latest flavor of Microsoft's mobile operating system, arrives on devices with built-in Bing features, some of which will certainly prove more than useful to many.
For those out of the loop, we should mention that Bing arrived on Mango with Bing Search, Bing Vision, and Bing Local Sco... |
13 October 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of comScore's search market numbers, Experian Hitwise is providing its own analysis. While the numbers differ, for a number of reasons, the overall trends are rather similar and both reports show Google growing in September in the US, after staying put for a long time.
Determining exactly how... |
13 October 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to introduce some changes to version 2.0 of the Bing application programming interface, freeing up resources to be invested in parts of the API which the company believes would serve developers better.
As such, the Redmond company announced that starting on December 8, 2011, Instant Answer... |
12 October 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has released no less than four new video advertisements designed to highlight Bing on the new Windows Phone Mango platform.
The Redmond company is currently rolling out the Windows Phone 7.5 update, code name “Mango,” to customers that acquired Windows Phone 7 devices. New handsets sporting ... |
11 October 2011
10:12 GMT |
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It's business as usual in the search market, at least in the US, in September. Except for the rather somber fact that Yahoo has hit its lowest point in history, everything else is moving, or not moving as the case may be, according to the bigger and unchanged trends.
Google managed to turn the tides in Septem... |
11 October 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Season 2 of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is just days away from debut and fans of the show now have the chance to actually play a small part in an episode from season 3.
Bing partnered with AMC for the “Walk with the Dead! Stagger-on Role Sweepstakes” which offers US citizens an opportun... |
11 October 2011
09:13 GMT |
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Bing can help users cut down the time spent “trick-or-treating” on search engines looking for inspiration for the best Halloween costume this year.
Microsoft has enlisted the help of celebrity stylists Rob Zangardi and Mariel Haenn for BingHalloween.com, a destination designed to provide a range of id... |
10 October 2011
07:14 GMT |
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In addition to starring as the lead in the current box office no. 1 ‘Real Steel,’ Hugh Jackman is also helping MSN launch a new “Celebrity Editor Series.”
The Australian actor and producer is also MSN’s first celebrity guest editor, dishing details on not just robots, but also on cycl... |
10 October 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Bing Autos now sports more horsepower than ever before, with a new update rolled out to improve customer experiences when it comes down to finding and buying cars.
The refreshed Bing Autos comes with the promise of narrowing the gap between an average user and an automotive expert.
Fact is that information i... |
5 October 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Navigating airports is now easier thanks to a new Bing Maps update, since Microsoft has mapped a range of locations, making them available to all users via its search / decision engine.
The Redmond company was already offering popular venue maps for Bing Maps, and airport maps are just the latest addition, revea... |
30 September 2011
02:57 GMT |
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Bing Deals has been live for a few days now, a new initiative from Microsoft designed to make its search / decision engine the one-stop shop for the best deals, discounts and coupons.
An upgrade to Bing’s shopping vertical, Bing Deals centralizes in excess of 200,000 deals that users can find and take adva... |
26 September 2011
04:28 GMT |
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A new, amazing Bing homepage experience is now live, pushing user experience to an entirely new level, certainly well beyond anything else that search rivals have to offer. The first ever Bing HTML5 video homepage has just made its debut today, making Microsoft’s search / decision engine come alive in a specta... |
23 September 2011
03:29 GMT |
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A great search experience is only part of what Bing has to offer, with Microsoft also focusing to simplify the way in which users can take action on the results returned by the decision engine.
Action Buttons are the latest upgrade introduced to Bing, a new feature which simplifies a series of tasks for websites ... |
22 September 2011
03:34 GMT |
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Yahoo is announcing that the switch to Microsoft Bing-powered organic search results has been completed in most of the places Yahoo Search is available. All of the European markets have been transitioned as well as the Asian ones, with the sole exception of South Korea.
Yahoo started a big push to transition all o... |
20 September 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Search engines should improve their advertisement techniques as it seems that malware spreading websites might appear to users who were looking to download things like Skype, Firefox or Adobe Player. The GFI Labs blog revealed their discovery after noticing that something was fishy after the websites behind the link... |
16 September 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Bing's market share may not show it, but Microsoft has a solid product with its newest search engine. And it's improving it all the time, Bing has now introduced a new technology, dubbed Adaptive Search, which personalizes search results based on your previous queries.
Both Bing and Google personalize se... |
15 September 2011
10:31 GMT |
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As has been the case for quite a while now, the search market is rather stable, in terms of market share and Google, while not gaining anything for the past year or more isn't loosing much share either.All the while, the search market is growing overall, so Google, along with everyone else, is seeing more search... |
14 September 2011
11:55 GMT |
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Microsoft has shown great patience with its online services, especially the search engine, and has continued to pour money into it in the hope that it will one day be worth it.That day is not here yet, but it may be just a bit closer. Bing-powered search has managed to gain 4 percent points in the past year, accordin... |
9 September 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Microsoft and Twitter have decided to extend the deal which gave Bing access to the entire Twitter data firehose. The two companies made the announcement in a novel way, via a conversation on Twitter. Bing has been surfacing tweets in the search results, when relevant, based on direct access to data from Twitter.Unti... |
7 September 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it has transitioned to Bing in several more countries. The company has been switching over to the Microsoft search engine in quite a few places recently. The most recent are several European countries and several in the Middle East and North Africa."We are excited to announce that the Yahoo! ... |
20 August 2011
06:53 GMT |
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A new video from Microsoft offers a glimpse into how technological innovation will dramatically change the way in which users consume entertainment content in the future. And the “future” term is used loosely, since, in a sense, the future is already here. The video embedded bellow reveals demos of Kinec... |
18 August 2011
06:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has started integrating traffic data from Yahoo into the webmaster tools for its own search / decision engine as of August 12, 2011, revealed Duane Forrester, Senior Product Manager with Bing’s Webmaster Program. But even though the process was kicked off last week, customers leveraging Bing Webmaste... |
17 August 2011
05:52 GMT |
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The latest enhancements introduced to the shopping vertical of Microsoft’s search / decision engine make it easier for customers to share product lists with friends, take advantage of discounts and get to the items relevant to them faster and easier than before. The volume of products available on Bing Shoppin... |
16 August 2011
05:03 GMT |
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While the search market, in terms of shares, is relatively static, it's growing on the whole, albeit not by a huge amount. There was a three percent rise in the volume of queries in the US in July, compared to the previous month, according to the latest comScore numbers."More than 17.1 billion explicit core sear... |
11 August 2011
08:40 GMT |
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The latest search market data for the US has showed up, unsurprisingly not much has changed from the previous month, Google lost a bit more market share while Yahoo gained a small amount, but overall things aren't moving very fast.The latest numbers from comScore, which aren't public yet, indicate that ther... |
10 August 2011
07:58 GMT |
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Yahoo has now completed the switch over to Bing, to power its search engine, in 17 countries. The migration, which started a year ago, is still ongoing and the bulk of the countries where it has been completed only came recently.In fact, after the initial roll out in the US, in August 2010, Yahoo took its sweet time ... |
4 August 2011
11:08 GMT |
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Microsoft has introduced two new Bing Visual Search galleries, focused on a couple of the most watched shows on TV, Glee and So You Think You Can Dance. Visual Search, for those that don’t know, is an innovative search experience available through the Redmond company’s decision engine. Through Bing Visu... |
4 August 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it is transitioning its search engine to Bing in several more countries, this time in key European markets. Yahoo has been switching over to Bing in more and more countries, after it started with the US and Canada a year ago.
"We are now ready to transition Yahoo! organic search results (t... |
2 August 2011
06:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is pointing consumers to the shopping vertical of its search/decision engine for their back-to school purchases. The promise from the software giant is that Bing Shopping will help users save money, time and energy that they’d otherwise waste on the tedious back-to-school shopping process. “Bi... |
27 July 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is testing sponsored search results mixed together with organic ones in Bing, a practice that raises ethical concerns and won't probably be very well received by users.Sponsored links normally appear at the top of search results or on the side and are clearly marked as ads. So when analysts from Rimm-K... |
25 July 2011
08:45 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it has transitioned more of its local search properties over to Bing, switching from its own search engine technology to Microsoft's. This is another step in a big agreement between Yahoo and Microsoft for Bing to power Yahoo Search.The two companies have reached a deal a couple of years... |
23 July 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Bing is slowly creeping up in the search market in the US, but it's not really taking from Google and the progress is slow. But there is progress, that's the important part. Bing hit an all-time high in the US in June, with 14.4 percent of the market, up from 14.1 percent in May.
"Google Sites led the U.... |
14 July 2011
09:21 GMT |
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A map style update was introduced to Bing Maps this month, and Microsoft published a PDF document designed to let customers get insight into the changes it rolled out to its mapping, location and search platform. “A Guide to Bing Maps July 2011 Map Style Update” is available for download from the softwar... |
13 July 2011
09:32 GMT |
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Malware distributors have managed to poison the search results for Google Chome on Microsoft's Bing search engine by buying sponsored links.One of the monetizing methods used by search companies are so-called sponsored links. These are paid-for results which are displayed at the top of search result pages for ce... |
8 July 2011
05:13 GMT |
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Enhanced search capabilities right at the fingertips of iPad users. This is what Microsoft is bringing with the version 1.1 update to the Bing for iPad application. The Bing for iPad app is making great use of the form factor’s natural user interface to seamlessly blend in new search functionality. It sho... |
6 July 2011
04:08 GMT |
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The Chinese internet market, for all of its troubles, remains incredibly attractive to outside companies. With hundreds of millions of users already and only a 30 percent internet penetration rate, its size alone is enough to draw foreign companies.
But those companies are having trouble finding success in China,... |
5 July 2011
05:29 GMT |
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