Bing Is Now the Fastest Growing Search Engine

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

According to a Nielsen report this week, Microsoft’s new BingBing search engine is growing faster than any of its search competitors in the top 10…

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Bing grabs 10 percent of search market

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

Microsoft’s new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday. The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July, winning Microsoft a 10.7 percent share of the search [...]

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Ask.com Powers Breast Cancer Cause-Search Campaign

Sep 14, 2009 1 Comment by admin

According to Ask.com spokesperson Nicholas Graham, while companies are expected to help community organizations, it’s not unheard of for these cause-related partnerships to also benefit the companies. After donating $25,000 to Autism Speaks through a targeted awareness campaign, 80,000 visitors changed their Ask home pages to Autism Speaks-related skins and 63% of campaign visitors became [...]

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Why the DOJ wants more on Yahoo search deal

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments by admin

The long road toward Microsoft and Yahoo’s search deal could be set to get a little longer, or fall off a cliff. Both companies have long expected the U.S. Department of Justice to scrutinize the deal to install Microsoft as the exclusive search provider for Yahoo’s Web pages, which would also see Yahoo end its [...]

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Bing 2.0: “Super Imressive!”

Sep 12, 2009 No Comments by admin

Twitter has already had repercussions in the courtroom. Now it has had them at Microsoft’s annual company meeting as well. Employee tweets from the gathering Thursday revealed that we may see a major update to the company’s Bing search engine as early as next week…

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Bing 2.0 could be around the corner

Sep 11, 2009 No Comments

Mary-Jo Foley at our sister site ZDNet spotted a few eager Twitter users spilling the beans on Bing 2.0 following Microsoft’s annual company meeting, where employees were apparently given a preview of some new features that will be rolled out over the coming weeks. Some attendees had the changes coming next week, while others thought [...]

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Justice Department further probing Bing-Yahoo deal

Sep 11, 2009 No Comments

The U.S. Department of Justice has furthered its investigation into the proposed search engine deal between Microsoft and Yahoo by asking both companies to provide more information. The two companies received an additional request for information earlier this week as expected, Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans told CNET News…

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Bing 2.0 Is Coming This Month, Say Microsoft Employees On Twitter (MSFT)

Sep 11, 2009 No Comments

Here comes Bing, version 2.0. Microsoft (MSFT) held a huge company meeting at Safeco field in Seattle yesterday and news of Bing 2.0 hit Twitter during the event…

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Israeli Company Lands US Patent That Could Make Internet Search Giants Pay

Sep 08, 2009 No Comments

Aviv Refuah, the young CEO of the public Israeli company Netex Corporation, has managed to score a US patent on an internet search option developed by the company he founded that could well force major Internet search players like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to cough up royalties for future use of the technology…

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Bing Doesn’t Have Much Zing Yet Outside The U.S. (comScore)

Aug 24, 2009 1 Comment

In the two months since Microsoft launched Bing, its new search engine has taken nearly a full point in market share in the U.S. But overseas, the Bing effect is not really being felt yet. The latest global search market share numbers (as opposed to U.S.) from comScore show Microsoft’s share of search queries actually [...]

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Can Microsoft’s Bing, or Anyone, Seriously Challenge Google?

Aug 24, 2009 No Comments

Every year, the market-research firm Millward Brown conducts a survey to determine the economic worth of the world’s brands — in other words, to put a dollar value on the many corporate logos that dominate our lives. Lately the firm’s results have been stuck on repeat: Google has claimed the top spot for the past [...]

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