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NewsGoogle keeps Bing, Yahoo! at bay in search business
Google is hanging onto its dominant share of the search market, while its competitors inch up and down. Google edged a bit further ahead in January,...
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NewsBing can now search through Facebook photos
More Facebook functionality is creeping into Bing with a new feature that lets users search and browse through their friends’ photos. The so-called...
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NewsBing lets you ask your Facebook friends as you search
If you want to know more about a new rock band or a new restaurant, you’ll probably do a search. But then you realise a few of your friends might...
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NewsBing and Google deepen social integration in search
Microsoft and Google are each taking steps to extend the social networking capabilities in their search services, with the goal of making it easier...
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NewsMicrosoft’s Bing counters Google with Yelp partnership
Microsoft didn’t just sit around and idly watch Google take the lead in local search with its partnership with Zagat. Microsoft’s search engine...
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NewsGoogle updates algorithm to stay ahead of game
Google has freshened up its search results with updated algorithms. The updates could be an important part of Google’s strategy to keep ahead...
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App Guide 1Localscope
There are any number of apps that let you search for nearby businesses but Localscope offers two neat twists: Aggregation and augmented reality. Unfortunately,...
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News 1Bing app improves iPad’s cut-and-paste
Microsoft is bringing the fight to Apple – on its own device, no less – creating alternative multitouch gestures for its Bing for iPad app. Gates...
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Help 1How and why to search Twitter
Twitter has quite possibly become the widest, most insightful and perpetually open window into the minds of the masses that the world has ever seen....
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NewsGoogle’s new search features put pressure on Bing
With Google's continuing innovation in search, some analysts believe Bing is at risk of slipping further behind...
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NewsAnalyst calls Google’s accusations ‘silly’
Even if Microsoft did copy Google’s search results the practice couldn’t be scaled enough to mimic Google’s algorithms in any widespread and...
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News 1Comment: Is Google’s copying complaint hypocritical?
When involved in a spat over allegations of unauthorized copying or misappropriation of content and ideas, Google—fairly or not—usually plays...
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NewsGoogle’s Bing Sting: caught stealing search?
Google has accused Microsoft’s Bing of copying, claiming it uses Google results to improve their search listings. Suspicion first came into play...
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Microsoft pulls Bing app from Australian App Store
The iPhone app for Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has been pulled from all international App Stores including Australia, according to Neowin.net....
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Report: Apple may replace Google search with Bing
There comes a point in many epic stories where the hero must team with its erstwhile rival to take on an even greater threat. For Apple, that time...
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App Guide
Review: Bing for iPhone
Microsoft launched Bing in 2009 in a bold but foolhardy effort to unsettle—if not actually unseat—Google’s domination of the search engine...
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App Guide
Microsoft’s Bing now available in iPhone app form
Microsoft’s new Bing app makes its debut in the App Store this week, bringing the many facets of Web search supported by the company’s Bing search...
