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
16
2009
16
2009
Nov
18
2009
18
2009
Image Swirl new technique in Google Labs to search images
Google keeps experimenting new innovations in its search technology and may be their evolving algorithm is what makes them a search giant. Their latest innovation comes to image search with an experimental feature in Google Labs named as Image Swirl. Google Image Swirl cluster similar images into representative groups in a fun, exploratory interface. When [...]
Sep
14
2009
14
2009
Visual search: new feature by Microsoft’s Bing
Visual Search, a new idea of Microsoft to make its search engine Bing looks different from other web searches. Innovation of Microsoft this time has its way through their idea of providing search results as interactive galleries of movable images instead of text links. This patter of search is named by Microsoft as Visual search, [...]
Aug
20
2009
20
2009
Microsoft Bing Search Share Rises To 8.9%
Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine handled 8.9 percent of US queries in July, up from 8.4 percent in June, while Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. lost market share. Of the 13.6 billion U.S. searches conducted in July, 64.7% were conducted through Google (NSDQ: GOOG) sites, a 0.3 percent point decline from June, according to ComScore. [...]
Jul
27
2009
27
2009
Bing Could Be Improved with Online Game
Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, could be improved at some point through the use of an online game called Page Hunt, researchers with Microsoft Research demonstrated in a new paper. The game, called Page Hunt, generates data from users that could be used to refine queries and search results. Bing currently sits in third in [...]
Jul
2
2009
2
2009
Microsoft Bing Adds Twitter Searches
Microsoft has added a feature to Bing that allows the search engine to query the Internet for so-called real-time data, including postings from Twitter users. So this must be more like a toe in the water. Microsoft says it is only adding “several thousand” well-known or prolific tweeters to Bing at the moment. And then [...]
Jun
28
2009
28
2009
Microsoft Bing Copied Travel Site Kayak
A smaller travel search site has complained that the travel section of Microsoft’s Bing appears to be influences by its own design. Kayak.com has not yet gone to court, but has sent the firm a legal letter. Microsoft’s travel-search component of Bing comes from Farecast, a Web travel company Microsoft acquired. Wired reported the news [...]