The leading source for credible citizen reporting

Help | Login | Join Allvoices

Mainstream News

This event is older than two months and is no longer active. Some links older than two months could be broken.

Click here to post a new related report

Microsoft means business in its Google challenge

Source: Gulfnews.com

Dubai : United Arab Emirates | 5 months ago

0 0

So what makes Microsoft think that Bing.com, the heavily promoted and newest challenger in the search engine wars, stands much of chance? Microsoft seems to be hoping that search engines in general just don't understand what people are looking for. The Washington-based company has been trying to...

Reach
Credibility

READ MORE: Microsoft Bing, search engines, Google

More News From: Dubai : United Arab Emirates

Related Allvoices Contributions

Twitter launching paid business accounts

By: intellectual

witter's co-founder, Biz Stone, said the microblogging service would start charging companies for using the platform from next year Businesses are under no obligation to sign up to a paid account, but doing so will provide them with a "special layer of access", including feedback and statistics, said Stone. Many big name ...

5 days ago
Microsoft and News Corp to block Google making it pay for indexed news ...

By: AuNews

MICROSOFT and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp are in discussions planning to remove its websites from Google. The move could make Microsoft force Google to pay to index news or for the software giant to pay to include the news results in its own search engine, Bing. The biggest beneficiary is the newspaper industry, which has yet to ...

7 days ago
Twitter in search deal with Google and Microsoft's Bing

By: picez

Tweets to appear in search results, as Bing also announces Facebook search Twitter has sold the rights to search its vast store of real-time communications in twin deals with both Google and its search rival, Microsoft's Bing - with Bing also announcing that it would start searching Facebook status updates.The deals, which were announced within ...

about 1 month ago
Google introduces new search options

By: dustgeer

Google has introduced new options to search that are intended to make life easier for users. The new options - nine in total - are hidden in the left sidebar and allow users to filter results by the past hour or a specific date range; they can be specified to look only within blogs or for reviews; and enable the user increase or decrease the ...

about 1 month ago
- 1
- 2
- 3
- >

News Stories

BizJournals: Microsoft Bing exec jumps to eBay

News Source: Androscoggin News | 5 months ago

Yahoo search engineers and executives, eBay appears to be popular for ex-Microsofties. Microsoft's Hugh Williams, who played a key role in the company's Bing search engine, has left to join eBay Inc...For more on the Microsoft search reunion at eBay ,...
Microsoft means business in its Google challenge

News Source: Gulfnews.com | 5 months ago

So what makes Microsoft think that Bing.com, the heavily promoted and newest challenger in the search engine wars, stands much of chance? Microsoft seems to be hoping that search engines in general just don't understand what people are looking for.
The biggest problem facing Bing? Loyalty to Google.

News Source: Christian Science Monitor | 5 months ago

We’ve written a lot about Bing in recent months, because let’s face it – any legitimate challenge to Google is worth watching very closely. But a new focus group study released yesterday by Catalyst Group shows exactly how steep the climb will...
LiveScience: Bing vs. Google vs. WolframAlpha

News Source: Androscoggin News | 5 months ago

47 pm ET Have you tried Bing ? It is Microsoft's new search engine that the company "hopes will help it grab a bigger slice of the online ad market," AdAge says . I don't aim to review it fully, but figured you'd like to test drive it for yourself.