Microsoft said on Monday that it is excited that that Bing will be included as a search option in Safari. Speaking on the Bing Blog, Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President, Online Audience Business Group said that... More...
Bing has officially celebrated its first birthday, after it replaced Live search one year ago. Bing has become a staple in Microsoft's search engine war, competing against Yahoo! and Google. The “decision engine”... More...
Our friend over at ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley, has pointed out that Microsoft is officially giving up on Bing Cashback. Bing Cashback was an incentive for customers to shop through Microsoft's Bing search engine, as... More...
Google has revealed it plans to introduce search backgrounds for its search engine. The feature, available today for those in the U.S., allows users to select their own background for the Google.com homepage or choose from... More...
If you are looking to attain utmost privacy while browsing the Web, you must first acknowledge that even the most basic and ubiquitous of tools like search engines tend to collect a ton of data... More...
Microsoft is planning to offer PC manufacturers $2 per copy of Microsoft Office Starter 2010, if they pre-install the Bing bar and Windows Live Essentials, according to zdnet. PC makers can also opt to not install... More...
Microsoft has released another huge update for their Bing Maps imagery. Every few months, Bing releases another major update for their Maps application, to include new countries, cities and variations of different angles and... More...
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it has begun rolling out new Bing social search features to a small subset of users in the U.S. Bing's social search pulls in content from Twitter to display the most... More...
The announcement of the iAd mobile advertising platform by Apple at their iPhone OS 4.0 event on Thursday may have seemed like a big enough kick in the teeth for Google, with Apple directly invading... More...
As pointed out by LiveSide.net, Microsoft is no longer re-directing Live.com to their Bing search engine. Ever since Bing was launched, Live.com, the past address for Windows Live Search, has been taking users to Bing.... More...
Microsoft said on Thursday that it is updating Bing with several new UI enhancements and newly announced Foursquare integration. Bing has made several refinements to the user interface (UI). Microsoft has added a new "Bing Box"... More...
Bing has released an update for the Bing app on the iPhone, bringing some fixes and new features. This is the first update for the Bing app, since its release back in December. Unfortunately, users... More...
Bing has updated its map service to include the night time sky. If you have ever looked up and wondered what the stars name you were looking at or wanted to find the Big... More...
Microsoft has removed the Bing iPhone application from all international Apple App Stores except the United States. The Bing application began disappearing from various countries App Store's on Monday. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the move and... More...
Ever since Microsoft launched its updated search/decision engine, Bing, it has been relentless with the advertising, which has certainly been paying off for the Redmond-based software colossus. The website now has a respectable market share... More...
Motorola said Wednesday that it will be deploying Bing services on Motorola devices powered by Android in China. Devices are expected to be available in the first quarter this year with a pre-loaded Bing bookmark on... More...
According to an article on InfoWorld, Steve Ballmer seems pretty optimistic about catching Google in the search market. When asked if Microsoft will ever be number one in search, Ballmer responded: "There's no good answer... More...
Yahoo! and Twitter have announced a partnership that will bring real time Twitter updates into Yahoo!'s search results. Yahoo! will be given full access to Twitter's "Firehose", a full feed of public tweets sent to Twitter.... More...
Microsoft's Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrated some stunning augmented reality integration inside of Bing Maps at the ( Technology Entertainment Design) TED conference last week. Blaise Aguera y Arcas worked on the Seadragon technology at Microsoft... More...
Today Microsoft released a major geographical update for Bing Maps, adding in well over 1 million square kilometers for 19 different countries around the world. The update adds bird’s eye-view, enhanced bird’s eye-view, and... More...
As the rivalry between Apple and Google heats up, Microsoft appears to be moving in on Google’s former home turf. Businessweek.com is reporting that Apple and Microsoft are in talks to replace the default... More...
Microsoft announced today that they will be increasing the level of privacy on Bing for its users, by deleting the entire log containing the Internet Protocol address associated with search queries after six months, rather... More...
Microsoft has really been pushing Bing since its release this past summer, and while it hasn't been able to put a dent in Google's search market dominance, it's sure been busy snatching away searches from... More...
Bing has entered the arena of URL shortening, turning long bits of URL into an easily manageable URL. Some Microsoft employees have already begun using the new service for posts on their blogs and... More...
Hot off the press from Ars Technica, word of Mozilla's director of community development, Asa Dolzler's comments permeate the eardrums of Google lovers worldwide. Catalyzed by Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments on privacy, Dolzler, on... More...
The search battle continues and for the month of November Google was able to gain back 1.4% of the US market. Hitwise, a company that monitors web traffic, reports that Google was able... More...
Today a new search engine for the UK has been thrown into the mix. Microsoft's Bing UK, following a period of trial and continued in-depth analysis of consumer usage and behaviour, has been put through... More...
Microsoft's Bing search engine is to team up with Wolfram Alpha, the search engine that attempts to answer questions directly rather than providing links. The move will see Wolfram Alpha provide answers on Bing, which... More...
That's the message coming out of yesterday's annual company meeting at Microsoft. Several Microsoft employees tweeted that Microsoft's improvements to Bing maps is "exciting" with one going as far as to claim "BING 2.0 terrific... More...
Yahoo! and Microsoft have both confirmed earlier reports of a deal over search. In a joint statement Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz confirmed "this agreement comes with boatloads of value for Yahoo!, our users, and... More...
Microsoft Research have released an online game to help fine-tune search results for Bing. The game is named "Page Hunt" and the basic idea is to show the player a random web page, and... More...
Data from ComScore is showing that Microsoft's Bing search engine is taking market share away from Yahoo in the US market, reports IT Pro. The latest data shows that Microsoft captured 8.4% of US internet... More...
A little more than a month ago, Microsoft officially launched Bing.com. Preliminary reports that are now being released are showing that the search engine is again continuing to climb in terms of unique visitors and... More...
We knew it was going to happen; now even Microsoft is experimenting with the "phenomenon" called Twitter. Today Microsoft unveiled a fresh new feature that will list the two latest tweets from that user when... More...
Microsoft's newest search engine, Bing, has gained a little more traction in the fight against Google's web search dominance. Bing took an 8.23% cut of US web searches for the month of June which... More...
When Neowin reported last week about Bing allowing users to watch porn videos and browse pornographic material using its search, businesses, schools and other large corporations complained that Bing maybe a gateway to free porn.... More...
Microsoft has already updated its new search engine, Bing, to halt complaints from network administrators about the video clip preview feature. Built into the search engine to give it the edge over its competitors,... More...
You may have read the title and thought this was a joke but I kid you not, Microsoft has released a pack of 3 ring tones where people say the word bing in a rapid... More...
Microsoft's new Bing search (or rather, decision) engine is still in beta, but that doesn't mean that the Redmond company can't begin to advertise it. To show that they mean business, they have already released... More...
Since Microsoft officially announced their new search engine Bing on Thursday it seems to have impressed many critics and is showing definite improvements over its predecessor Live Search. But does Bing have what it takes... More...
After several months in the planning, Microsoft has finally taken the covers off its new web search engine, Bing. Set to go live in under a week, Bing is not just a re branding of... More...