With Microsoft reportedly poised to introduce its new search engine, code-named "Kumo" next week, a question arises: "Why does Microsoft do what everyone else does?" Since screenshots of Kumo leaked out in March, both Google and Yahoo have shown similar new ...Read More
Microsoft's Bing search engine continues to make incremental gains in search share, with new numbers bringing Bing's share closer to double digits. Microsoft has invested heavily in improvements to Bing, including in recent months a deal to index Twitter tweets. ...Read More
Microsoft's Bing search engine continues to grab market share from Yahoo in a perverse dance before these two companies partner in an attempt to conquer Google.
The latest comScore stats tell the tale. Simply put, Microsoft has nearly garnered 10 percent ...Read More
Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search Web site enjoyed the biggest uptick in market share last month, while Google continued to dominate the overall landscape, according to research company comScore Inc.. Reston-based comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) found that Bing's market share of total search ...Read More
So what should we make of the first major speech, delivered last night to the Society of Editors' conference, by Lady (Peta) Buscombe? It ranged over many topics - reform of the House of Lords, the anti-democratic nature of super-injunctions, a ...Read More
Wolfram Alpha's API sees big pickup, may just change how we look at a search engine Wolfram Alpha returns answers tocomplex questions like plots of mathematical functions, geometricshapes, nutritional information, and more. Previously, theseresults had been offered solely through Wolfram's search ...Read More
Microsoft's search engine Bing will soon feature results from the innovative Wolfram|Alpha web service which attempts to compute answers to searchers' questions, rather than link to web pages.
Bing and Wolfram announced Wednesday that Microsoft would begin using Wolfram Alpha's service ...Read More
SEATTLE - Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google. Traditionally, search engines from Google Inc. and others respond ...Read More
Unlike when you stand over your coworker's desk, Microsoft's Bing search engine actually works better when you hover.
One of the key features of the would-be rival to Google is that when you hover to the right of a result, you ...Read More
What, exactly, is Rupert Murdoch thinking? First, he announces that all of Newscorp's websites will erect paywalls like the one employed by the Wall Street Journal (however, Rupert managed to get the details of the WSJ's wall wrong – no ...Read More
(alleyinsider.com) -- Rupert Murdoch says once he starts charging for all his sites, he's going to take them out of Google's search index. In an interview with Sky News Australia, he says he doesn't want people coming to his sites through ...Read More
Aiming to stay relevant, Microsoft is introducing a new look for its MSN.com home page.
Although MSN gets far less attention than the company's Bing or Windows Live efforts, the home page remains an important economic engine for Microsoft's online business, ...Read More
Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Microsoft and OpenX will promote their respective products to each other's customers. OpenX will be the preferred partner to publishers for enterprise and server solutions, and it will promote Microsoft's Content Ads, which ...Read More
It's a global battle whose foot soldiers will be engineering teams working inside a few square miles of Sunnyvale and Mountain View, with billions of dollars in advertising at stake.
Almost a decade after Google became a household name, Microsoft's launch ...Read More
Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at Web 2.0, where he spent 17 minutes talking with John Battelle about a number of topics. Bullets of what they talked about are below the video: He's wearing "freaky" five toes shoes, due to ...Read More
Calling the fight for search engine market share might be premature, with Google clearly still lord of its domain, but Microsoft's Bing continues to slowly make strides against the search engine giant that may eventually cause its rival to take ...Read More
Google cofounder and President of Technology Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, answering a variety of questions on hot-button issues affecting the search company. Interviewed on stage by conference chairman John Battelle, Brin lamented ...Read More
Companies are confident that Twitter searching will add a new dimension to the search for information online
While about Twitter's valueis ongoing, with nearly 20percent of people tweeting (slang for making Twitter posts), thiswealth of information is too attractive to pass ...Read More
Bing has added real-time search for Twitter, but it's just beta for now. Microsoft also struck a partnership with Facebook, but wouldn't say when Bing would include status updates. Not to be outdone, Google has also inked a real-time search ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO _ Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. on Wednesday said they have each signed deals that will make content from Twitter Inc. available on their search services, as they strive to fill them with more up-to-date information. Microsoft's senior vice ...Read More
Microsoft has already set up its Twitter search page
Twitter has signed deals to put messages sent via the microblogging service into the Microsoft and Google search indexes.
The deals will see messages, or tweets, show up in Bing and Google ...Read More
