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This is confusing. Microsoft is trying to court the newspaper industry and willing to pay them to remove their content from Google. Instead Microsoft wants the newspapers to post their stuff on Bing for a better user experience and paid content to enhance the newspapers financially. But on November 20, 2009 there was an opinion [...]

Last week my wife and I were watching the TV when up popped one of those Microsoft Bing commercials. I am sure you have seen the commercial where the teenage daughter asks Dad a question and in a zombie stare he goes off in a tangent babbling out obscure facts. The girl turns to her [...]

Microsoft is touting that their new Bing search feature will now include warnings trying to help consumers from being the victims of Advance Fee Fraud and also Lottery Scams. It seems that these scams cost consumers millions of dollars all around the world. In addition Microsoft has a online site which aims at informing consumers [...]

According to the latest Nielsen rating, Bing has gained in popularity and now commands what appears to be about 10.7% of the search market. Since Microsoft has basically bought Yahoo search, shouldn’t the two be combined? How does MSN and Live Search figure into these figures?

To view the figures click on the above image.
I wonder [...]

Google and newspapers have been at odds recently since the newspapers view Google as cutting into their profit margin. But Google is trying to mend some fences with a new feature they call Google Fast Flip. On  Google blog they state that this new feature will:
One problem with reading news online today is that browsing [...]

Here we go again. The DOJ is looking at Google as a monopoly, just like they did once before when they looked at Microsoft. But is Google really a monopoly if people like their stuff better than the competitions? This is what really needs to be looked at. Not just a dictionary term of what [...]

You have to love the different opinions on whether the latest search effort by Microsoft known as Bing will succeed or not. Over at the N.Y. York Times they say that Bing has gained respect for Microsoft. They also state in an article that:
“They have achieved a degree of respect they haven’t had,” said Danny [...]

Is it just me or has the past 6 weeks or so been a whirlwind of announcements? We started with Microsoft and their $100 million dollar Bing assault on Google search. Google counters with the announcement of their Google Chrome operating system, which some feel is an assault on Windows. Microsoft comes back with placing [...]

The wannabe your search vehicle Bing was unable to deliver when Michael Jackson died. The latest search engine from Microsoft buried the story by TMZ under a layer of other news at the bottom of the page. Microsoft admits it even ranked the story low in their  xRank result.
According to one news source it states:
Microsoft [...]

If these numbers are accurate they say volumes about how we users rely on Google to be our search preference. During the week that Bing launched, Google’s market share shrank from 78.72% to a whopping down turn of 78.48%. Before Microsoft released Bing their market share was a dismal 7.81% to a stunning 8.23%. Much [...]

The Catalyst Group has completed what is being claimed as a study of 12 people who used Google than Bing. The group of 12 was then asked which search engine they preferred. Though Bing was preferred by the users 8 out of the 12 said they would stay with Google. Which begs to ask if [...]

Maybe Google is a little worried about Bing after all. Google now has a Explore Google Search page in which they describe what they do. They also have introductions to their staff as well as user stories. Google also takes an in depth view of what exactly their search engine can do like finding out [...]

I really like the title, ‘Fear Grips Google’, which the New York Post has given to what they say is Google’s reaction to Microsoft’s new search engine called Bing. Sergey Brin is said to be amassing an army of engineers to investigate as to how Microsoft does their search algorithm. The New York Post uses [...]

We knew it would be happen. It was only a matter of time before the fur would start to fly between Google and Microsoft over search. Microsoft is spending some $100 million on advertising their new Bing search engine. But as I have previously mentioned, TV advertising didn’t work for Ask and I doubt it [...]

I just viewed the first of what appears to be Microsoft’s attempt to once again enter into the search market. If you look closely when the commercial first starts you will notice a monkey of some sort pounding on what appears to be a Mac computer. Does this mean that only baboons buy Mac’s? You [...]

Microsoft is spending a cool $100 Million to get us to drop Google and go with their new search engine called Bing. It now seems that Microsoft is going on the air with TV ads to try and convince us that Bing is the future. Though I wish the company well, the only one who [...]

Bong, bong, bong, no BING! Microsoft has launched their latest rendition of their new search vehicle called Bing in beta format. The new search is designed to replace Live Search and according to their web site will make finding such things as travel, shopping, health and local stuff easier to find. When you enter into [...]