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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
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Nov 18, 2009
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
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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
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
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Nov 12, 2009
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
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 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
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
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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
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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