Posts Tagged ‘Bing’

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 12 months, you will be aware of the phenomenon that is Twitter.
You may also be aware that Google and Bing have been casting jealous glances at Twitter’s Real Time Search engine, as one of the major flaws in both Google and Bing is the inability [...]

As Bing and News Corporation plot to make up the ground they conceded when neither took the internet seriously, does today’s news that they are eyeing a pact do them any favours?
Their concerns are well founded. Murdoch has recently been telling anyone that would listen that, as a reaction to flagging newspaper sales and falling [...]

Yesterday (November 12th) Microsoft announced that Bing had finally come out of Beta stage in the UK.
So what has prompted Microsoft to remove the Beta tag and effectively announce their satisfaction with Bing in the UK? The answer, it seems, lies in localised search:
“We promised to remove (the Beta tag) only once our experience would [...]

Just been annouced at  #imagine09 that this is now live: Click here.
So you get the latest trending topics and then a search facility. Still in beta but that’s cool.
Try it yourself.
It still contains a load of US based hot topics (Lakers?) but probably to be expected. Let’s see how it develops.
Once you conduct a [...]

Twitter to appear in Google and Bing Search Results
First Bing and then Google announced that they had signed up to include Twitter updates in their search results. As Marissa Meyer commented ‘We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to [...]

They say the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Well that is certainly what Google’s competitors must be hoping.
So the latest search stats from across the pond must have caused some people to think that finally a David had been born to humble the Google Goliath.
According to these stats, Bing (David in this story) [...]

Internet Explorer 8 is partnering with top search providers like Bing, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, Amazon to deliver visual suggestions that provide you with immediate answers. For example, typing “Isaac Newt” with Wikipedia visual suggestions will instantly show you a preview of the results directly in the Search Box drop-down. Look for more visual suggestion results with [...]

I am a huge fan of image searches and my favourite search engine is quite often determined by their image search results. MSN have always had a good image search function and Bing improved that service even more when it was release and naturally, Google had to respond. And they have, but how do the [...]

YaBing, or Microhoo?
Finally Yahoo! and Microsoft have decided to join forces no doubt hoping the synergy they create will be enough to take on Google in both natural search and through their online advertising platforms.
By trading search engine technology (Bing to Yahoo!) and advertising platform (Yahoo! to Bing) the plan would be to have an [...]

As soon as Bing came out, it was important for me to try and find as many ways to take advantage of any new technology that they use on the site. The first and possibly most obvious difference between Bing and other search engines (including previous incarnations of MSN search) is the preview panel. I [...]