Company is negotiating with the Chinese government, but it is difficult for both sides to give the Google. Yesterday Google said that it holds talks with the Chinese government’s censorship of its search business in the country, despite growing signs that the company can close its operations in China soon. The world’s largest search engine [...]
Mar
16
2010
16
2010
Feb
8
2010
8
2010
Bing the default search in the Facebook world
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 [...]
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 [...]
May
26
2009
26
2009
Microsoft to launch $80 million ad campaign
Microsoft is going to spend $80 million on an advertising campaign to support its new search effort, rumored to be called Bing, as the company once again takes on deeply entrenched rivals Google and Yahoo. AdAge magazine reports that the campaign could eventually hit $100 million. There was some talk that Microsoft would rename its [...]