Posts Tagged ‘Bing’

One of our eagle-eyed readers (thanks, Raphael) sent me a note that Microsoft today announced a bingified version of Firefox.

Microsoft’s Bing unit has just released a new commercial in its Search Overload series, which are among the best TV ads Microsoft created in the past few years.

Just in time for the shopping season: Bing Maps now lists some floor plans of malls around the country.

There is a lot of trivial material in today’s patent filings, especially from the big guys like Microsoft or IBM, who try to out-patent each other and build a patent licensing base. But occasionally, we come across a gem that is truly innovative and we hope that it will make it into consumer applications. What if you could search your entire stored voicemail?

You can virtually hear it: Bing! Bing Bing! As ridiculous as the name of Microsoft’s search engine sounded, it exactly does what Microsoft wanted it to do: Gain market share. Nielsen said that that Bing has a U.S. market share of 13.9% in August, up from 13.6% in July. The gain was enough to surpass Yahoo, which dropped from 14.3% to 13.1% share in the U.S.

Google simply tried to be nice. In what seems to be a blatant Bing ripoff, Google began showing bright background images on its front page today. Not every one was happy. Here are a few ways how you can unbing your Google homepage.

There seems to be no effective way to slow Google’s growth in the search engine market, as the company is believed to have claimed more share of the global search engine market, according to data released by Net Applications and Hitwise. Bing may have slowed Google temporarily, but Microsoft may need much more Bing marketing and features to impact Google’s pace.

You just know when Microsoft gets something right: And Bing might very well turn into Microsoft’s most underestimated  product in recent tech history. The company announced a wave of new features to that are not only conclusive, but have all the right ingredients to offer a compelling search experience. Google should be watching.

News from around the web you shouldn’t miss today: The WSJ has a pricey iPad version, a new version of Bing is coming up, Google testifies about China, Verizon talks 4G and Netflix for Wii is coming. iPad version of WSJ: $17.99 a month From the article: “The Wall Street Journal has reported on itself [...]

Read elsewhere this morning: Bing gets a view to the stars, Sprint  has a 4G iPhone and an eco-friendly LG cellphone, and Facebook and Twitter users are prone to burglaries (surprise).