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U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. said it was working on preventing a repeat of the type of outage that hit its Bing Internet search platform Thursday. Users experienced widespread outages of the Bing search engine for about 30 minutes Thursday evening,...
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The beta version of Microsoft’s Bing search engine maps feature could well give Google Maps a run for its money, Jason Kincaid writes for TechCrunch. The new feature challenges Google on every front: Streetside, the answer to Street View, functions...
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WolframAlpha, which was launched in mid-May, announced that starting on Wednesday, Bing would incorporate results from WolframAlpha in answers to certain search queries. "WolframAlpha's knowledge, computed from expertly curated data, will enrich Bing's...
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A scrappy upstart called "Google" surpassed them with a minimalist interface ...Progress! Tech bloggers are in a tizzy over the prospect of tech giants Google or Microsoft getting real-time access to the thoughts of Twitterers, but Valleywag has learned...
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Web surfers a few more ways to refine their search results, signaling its resolve to ward off rival Microsoft Corp.'s aggressive campaign to lure traffic. The changes announced Thursday might be hard to notice because they require clicking on a "show...
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Its latest figures show Microsoft's share of the search market has grown from 8.9% in July to 9.3% in August. The news saw Microsoft's shares rise while Google's dipped slightly. Microsoft's modest 9.3% share of the US search market is small but is a...
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Prior to the launch, Microsoft was able to generate buzz among Bing's early reviewers and adopters, a critical component of marketing in the age of social networks and blogging. Live Search lacked that virtual word-of-mouth support. Live Search also...
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According to a web information company, Alexa, Google dominates the charts but Bing is already at 19th position with about 5 per cent of users from India accessing internet to visit Bing. ViziSense, another online traffic measurement and metric tool,...
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In U.S, shares of Microsoft rose 8.23 percent in June from 7.21 percent in April and Yahoo jumped to 11.04 percent from 10.99 percent. “At first sight, a 1% increase in market share does not appear to be a huge return on the investment Microsoft has...
Tags: Microsoft Bing, market share, Google
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...
Tags: Microsoft Bing, search engines, Google