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Google chief sees Bing as main threat

Google chief sees Bing as main threat

This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: Ok! Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, pictured on September 7, on Friday said that Microsoft’s Bing… Source link

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Bing Bombs | TechCrunch

Bing Bombs | TechCrunch

Wow. Bing is completely and utterly down right now and has been for several minutes. The tweets about it are flying in at a massive pace — as are the tips to us. [Update below, it’s back after about 30 mins of downtime.] It’s one thing when startups, like Twitter, go down, which happens all the time. It’s another when a major search portal does it. If this is part of the new strategy to beat Google, Microsoft didn’t mention it in the Fall Release event the other… Source link

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Hands on: Bing gains Silverlight-only Visual Search feature

Hands on: Bing gains Silverlight-only Visual Search feature

Microsoft today launched the first major new feature since the debut of the company’s decision engine in May 2009. The software giant releases updates to its Web search almost every spring and fall, and this season is no exception. Visual Search beta is the first of many updates that Bing will be getting this fall, and it’s also easily the most fun to use. Redmond says it created the feature so that users can refine a query… Source link

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Bing Delivers Credibility to Microsoft

Bing Delivers Credibility to Microsoft

SAN FRANCISCO — In late May, Microsoft unveiled Bing, its new Internet search engine, in front of an audience of skeptics: technology executives and other digerati who had gathered near San Diego for an industry conference. To that crowd, Microsoft’s efforts to take on Google and Yahoo in the search business had become something of a laughingstock, and for good reason. Microsoft’s repeated efforts to build a credible search engine had fallen flat, and the company’s market share was… Source link

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3 Tools to Compare Google and Bing Search Results

3 Tools to Compare Google and Bing Search Results

Ever since the launch of new Microsoft’s search engine Bing, people have been actively comparing it to Google (to have some fun just try this example: try searching for [linux] on both of them – classic!) So (just as you might have expected) I am offering you some tools that will make comparing the two search engines easier and more fun: 1. Google / Bing Comparison searches both Bing and Google or either of them. The best thing about the tool is that it enables you to click through… Source link

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Bing! Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search Engine (Screenshots)

Bing! Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search Engine (Screenshots)

Today, Microsoft publicly unveiled its soon-to-launch search engine Bing. It will become available over the next few days, and be fully launched by June 3. On the surface, Bing has a distinct gloss. The home page features a rotation of stunning photography, for instance, which can be clicked on to produce related image search results. But the most significant changes are under the covers. “We have taken the algorithmic programming up an order of magnitude,” says… Source link

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