Microsoft Bing Investments Starting to Pay Off In Market Share Gains

Categories: SciTech| Nov 18, 2009

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

Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic?

Categories: SciTech| Nov 18, 2009

Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic? 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

Clicker's Online TV Schedule Goes Live

Categories: SciTech| Nov 12, 2009

Clicker, the search engine for TV shows on the Web that was , is now open to the public. I like the idea, the interface, and many of the features, although it's still rough around the edges in places. The site's ...Read More

Clicker Aims to Be the Path to TV Online

Categories: SciTech, Top Stories| Nov 12, 2009

The Web is increasingly filled with television shows, but finding them can be hard. Clicker, a well-financed startup, believes it can help. On Thursday, the company is rolling out its service, Clicker.com, which it calls a "TV Guide for the ...Read More

Bing vs. Google: Feature Wars

Categories: SciTech| Nov 12, 2009

Bing vs. Google: Feature Wars If you haven't noticed, Bing and Google are engaged in a tit-for-tat over which search engine has the best features. On Wednesday, Bing unveiled new and improved tools like Wolfram Alpha integration, Facebook Previews and full-page weather reports. Then Google hit ...Read More

Wolfram Alpha given keys to the Bingdom

Categories: Most Viewed, SciTech| Nov 12, 2009

Microsoft has inked a deal with Wolfram Alpha, making its Bing search engine a high-profile customer of the egghead web product’s API. Financial details of the agreement were kept secret. Wolfram Alpha, which went live in May this year, recently confirmed ...Read More

(Microsoft's Bing + x(Wolfram|Alpha)) > Google?

Categories: Most Viewed, SciTech| Nov 11, 2009

(Microsoft's Bing + x(Wolfram|Alpha)) > Google? 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

Bing Now a Serious Challenger to Google

Categories: Most Viewed, SciTech| Nov 11, 2009

Bing Now a Serious Challenger to Google Given undistinguished history of Microsoft's late and unlamented Live Search engine, the predecessor to Bing, it's easy to dismiss Redmond as a hapless also-ran in the search market. But given the vast sums of money and resources that Microsoft is ...Read More

"Microsoft Adds Wolfram Alpha Data To Bing" and related posts

Categories: SciTech| Nov 11, 2009

Data from search startup WolframAlpha is coming to Bing. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) announced the partnership today, as part of what it is calling the "first major release" of its Bing search engine since it initially unveiled it back in June. ...Read More

Microsoft tweaks Bing search site, asks WolframAlpha to do math, count calories

Categories: SciTech| Nov 11, 2009

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