Bing

When I first saw Bing, I was less than impressed. At the time before the Yahoo agreements, I had done a few searches, trying to find for myself which of the three (I almost said big three, but the only reason Bing could be considered big is because of the dollars Microsoft has poured into [...]

This time no promise of monetary reward, but something almost as good for many. The newest campaign to get you to use the search upstart is a natural tie-in.
In a campaign to get you to use their decision engine, you can pick up some wi-fi usage after searching with Bing.
Maximum PC explains the rest of [...]

You get the idea though the metaphor is purposely mangled. Microsoft is now finding out that quick pushes, like paying people to use a search, er… decision engine, is only going to get so far.
Unless you keep jacking up the money.
Since that doesn’t seem to be happening, the losses of search numbers are starting to [...]

Over the past couple of days, there have been several high profile stories concerning the advances in user share of Microsoft’s search engine, Bing! At first, it is easy to jump to the conclusion that Google is in real trouble, and things like the visual search feature, still not fully implemented by Microsoft, is a [...]

When we heard from the new and ostensibly improved Yahoo CEO, that the company was not a search company but an ad company, it was shocking, and a bit wondrous. After all, those of us who used the portal went there to find things, read things already on the main pages, or search for something [...]

Clearly, this is the method that Microsoft plans to use to bring searchers to its Bing search decision engine.  What is not clear is how long it plans to stick with this tack.

Bing! You search, you win! (for now)
from Tech Connect
One of the most financially-interesting features of the Bing ‘decision engine’ is certainly Cashback, as [...]

Or How Bing Went Bong!
Since I don’t usually look at every Microsoft oriented article, I seemed to have missed this one yesterday. Apparently it was happening while everyone was worrying, and getting their collective panties in a wad,  over the  semi-imaginary Windows 7 CHKDSK bug.
It appears that Bing is not quite the search engine one [...]

We have the announcement, made official today, that the search functions of Yahoo will be soon relegated to the Bing search engine.
There is more to it than that, of course, but the important part, for most people, will be the fact that the Yahoo search mechanism is going to be put out to pasture. The [...]

Over the past few years, many things have happened to make me wonder what is going on in the halls of Redmond. Last night, another of the announcements concerning Microsoft has made me wonder if the company is being steered by committee, a committee that never meets.
The Technologizer website has a report that Microsoft is [...]

Along with the center in Texas, two new data centers will be brought online during the month of July.  It makes another two points of entry to the nebulous cloud spoken of so often.
Microsoft’s data center expansion continues as two new such facilities are scheduled to ‘open up shop’ in the near future. The Dublin [...]

No, this is not about Mac OS X. The leopard I refer to is an imaginary one. The leopard is Yahoo, and the spots are its branding.
Will the name change help re-make Yahoo into a force to be reckoned with again? I’m not sure, but if my results last week with a blind search model [...]

A new site, hosted by the “delicategenius” blog, is providing a front end for searches, sent to the three top search (or decision) engines, and allowing a quick and easy perusal of the results.
Though there appears to be no way that the site is doing anything to change the results, the author states clearly he [...]

That must be what they meant when the company started the search for $10,000 by having to use Internet Explorer 8. Now I see that around two weeks ago, the company had another promotion going, to further bolster the company’s image in the land down under. (Don’t worry if you did not hear about it, [...]

Many sites are stating that Bing has already surpassed Yahoo as a popular site for searches from people who are not complete Google converts. I am not certain of this result, but certainly there is a tendency of people to move to something new, to check it out. Let’s see what happens in a couple [...]

Over at Download Squad, we learned that the game Tetris is 25 years old today. Seems like it hasn’t been that long, but I bow to the demands of the calendar.
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While there, we see that baseball manager, and Twit(terer) Tony LaRussa seems to have brought a lawsuit against Twitter because someone was pretending to be [...]