Microsoft connects Bing with Facebook

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Microsoft has added new social capabilities from Facebook to Bing to make search more social trendy. The new features leverages Facebook, where users can get personalized search based on their friend's recommendations. Bing in it's blogpublished as "By bringing together the power of search and … [Read more...]

Google awarded a patent for thumbnails in search results.. Bingo

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Google is the king when it comes to search, they rule and there is no denying of it. Microsoft was fighting a loosing battle with MSN but with Bing, they entered with a different approach, which was being more visual with results and it seems to be working for them, slowly and steadily. Back in … [Read more...]

Eric Schmidt : Microsoft’s Bing is a bigger problem than Apple or Facebook

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Eric Schmidt in an interview with WSJ's Alan Murray claims Microsoft to be their biggest competitor with Bing, ahead of Apple and Facebook. He praises Bing by saying "Bing is a well run, highly competitive search engine" and with respect to Facebook and Apple he adds "too early to tell," how big … [Read more...]

Bing got downloaded over 1 million times from Apple’s Appstore

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In mid-December 2009, Microsoft released Bing to the world and it received great appreciation however there were no figures to showcase its success over iphone os. Now, Florian Voss from Bing's team has released the stats for number of times, Bing application or iPhone or iPod got downloaded from … [Read more...]

Motorola to remove Google’s search for Bing on Android handsets

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Motorola will paste Microsoft's Search engine "Bing" above Google's own search engine on Android os based handsets. Android is an open source platform where every one is free to modify it to suit its needs with Google pioneering it. Google pioneered it to add web services such as search, mail, … [Read more...]

Microsoft releases Bing Application Programming Interface (API) for developers

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Microsoft released API (Application programming Interface) of bing after getting feed back from developers who emphasized the necessity for offline reading, preferably in chm format of pdf format. The book is over 650 pages with very detailed explanation of every aspect. The Bing Application … [Read more...]