Bing is now the default search in the Facebook world. The networking site gets its management side of advertising.
Last Thursday facebook celebrated its sixth anniversary and announced it had 400 million users, Facebook has extended its cooperation with Microsoft.
The Redmond company makes managing advertisements in Facebook which has been handled so far under [...]
Feb
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2010
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2010
Bing the default search in the Facebook world
Dec
20
2009
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2009
Bing! Information design litigate Microsoft over trademark
Bing is not only related to search and decide but there is also a company in Midwest that shares the same name and the Bing! Information Design LLC. has accused Microsoft for using their name to relaunch Microsoft search engine.
Bing! Information Designs produces easy to understand ideas for visual communication. They declare that they are [...]
Dec
16
2009
16
2009
Bing App for iPhone at iTunes App Store
Microsoft has released its free Bing App for the iPhone and iPod touch over at the iTunes App Store (going to m.bing.com will redirect you there as well). Verizon phones already offer a mobile version of Bing for Windows Mobile, Blackberry, BREW, and Sidekick devices, so this release just adds another OS and device to [...]
Dec
5
2009
5
2009
Bing & decide with Yahoo: Microsoft, Yahoo finalizes the deal
Microsoft and Yahoo have finally nailed down their search engine deal on Friday. Settling all terms clearly both the company announced that they have executed their search agreement.
Originally announced in July, the definitive Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement and License Agreement was dated to be finalized on 27th Oct but both the [...]
Dec
4
2009
4
2009
Microsoft excuses for Bing outage
Microsoft released an apology note for the outage of its decision engine. The outage which last for about thirty minutes took place due to some configuration changes made for conducting internal testing said Microsoft.
Bing’s outage prevented users to get to the site, and if they could, their queries were returning incomplete results page.
According to Satya [...]
Nov
18
2009
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2009
Search fight: Google & Bing expands at Yahoo expense
Monthly ranking from Comscore on US search engine shows dwindling Yahoo’s percentage share giving a way for raise in Bing’s and Google search share.
Keeping the topmost position Google registered a growth of 4% (from 8,975 to 9,362 billion) search visitors corresponding to 0.5% increase in U.S. core search market in month of October with 65.4 [...]
Nov
12
2009
12
2009
Binfram Alpha: could Bing’s computing grab Google’s share
Desiring to make a diet chart, or need search for mathematical computation?? Microsoft has now partnered with Wolfram Alpha to show in its Bing result direct response to your query regarding nutrition, health and mathematics etc.
Wolfram Alpha the ‘computational knowledge engine’ displays systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Users have to enter their question or [...]
Nov
4
2009
4
2009
Refashioned MSN brings Twitter, Facebook to portal page
Microsoft is finally thinking about their main portal page. The long old look is now being redesigned for a cleaner organized and friendlier look.
The newly dressed home page has direct access to Twitter, Facebook, Window Live where you can sign in directly to read or update your new feeds and status of Facebook and real [...]
Nov
1
2009
1
2009
Bing revamps its mobile search: says Touch Me! & lot more
Microsoft served few updates to its Bing search for mobile browser at m.bing.com. The updates bring together refined local search, maps and quick answers including some new features like real-time search for flights status, NFL details, and enhanced optimized navigation for touch-screen piece.
For checking Flight status users can enter the airline and flight number [...]
Oct
22
2009
22
2009
Bing & Google search now index Twitter tweets
Twitter’s treasure trove of tweets could now be accessed via Microsoft’s Bing and Google search. Both the search engine giants have finally announced their data- mining deal with Twitter for including tweets in their respective search results.
The real-time search results and openness of Twitter attracted Bing and Google to include tweets in its search [...]