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Bing Redesigned For Social Search
18th May 2012
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, was given a new facade last week. The change however, is not just visual, but functional as well. With this new design Microsoft hopes to be able to better incorporate social into their search engine. More »
Will Microsoft Sell Bing To Facebook?
27th April 2012
Speculation is rife about the possibility that Microsoft could sell their search engine, Bing, to Facebook.
Yahoo! – Bing Search Alliance Closes In On Google
4th April 2012
The Yahoo! Bing search alliance which has been trying to catch up with the Google search engine has shown a substantial growth in the first quarter of 2012. More »
Club Bing Is Closing
17th February 2012
Not even disguising search in the form of entertainment is enough to drive a sufficient flow of visitors to Bing. It has just been announced that Club Bing will soon be shut down. More »
Bing Overtakes Yahoo! Search Share
10th February 2012
comScore has released the search share figures for the month of January 2012 for the U.S. market. According to their analysis, Bing has now taken a lead over Yahoo! in the search share. More »
UK Search Spend Up 19%
20th January 2012
Search spend in has increased year-on-year by 14% in the USA and 19% in the UK, according to a new report on the state of digital marketing. More »
Microsoft Re-Launches Bing Deals
26th September 2011
Microsoft launched Bing Deals back in April of this year. They’ve now re-launched the service in an attempt to once again try and break into the daily deals market. More »
Bing Introduces Action Buttons
23rd September 2011
When Microsoft first introduced Bing as their new search engine, they had said that Bing was more than just a search engine. According to them it was a “decision engine”. They have now gone a step further to make this statement a reality by introducing ‘Action Buttons’. More »
Bing Checks Out The Local Social Market
19th August 2011
Microsoft’s search engine Bing has recently added a new social networking app for their Windows Phone. The app is called ‘We’re In’. More »
Bing Testing Ads Within Organic Search Results
25th July 2011
Bing is testing a new format of advertising inter-mingled with their organic search results. This could have serious implications in the search market across the board. More »
Bing-Baidu Tie Up
8th July 2011
According to reports from Reuters, China’s largest search engine Baidu has made a deal with Microsoft’s search engine Bing. More »
Schema.org Unites Three Search Giants
6th June 2011
The three major search engines, Google, Bing and Yahoo! have decided to come together for a common purpose. They have jointly introduced a collection of HTML tags called schemas, which will help webmasters to markup HTML pages in order to improve their website optimisation. More »
Bing Launches Mobile & Desktop Deals
7th March 2011
Bing has recently launched a new feature that facilitates local commerce via their mobile and desktop search services. The new feature is shown as ‘Deals’ in the Bing menu. More »
Nokia Selects Microsoft OS
11th February 2011
Nokia has just announced a new partnership with Microsoft. The world’s most popular mobile handset manufacturer will use the Microsoft Windows Phone OS as the main operating system for their smartphones. More »
Bing Discusses the Future of Mapping
28th October 2010
Microsoft hosted an event in London yesterday to discuss the future for Bing maps with a panel of industry experts and users. John Craske from AccuraCast reports on the event. More »
Google v Bing – Kings Of Social Search?
21st October 2010
Microsoft engineers teamed up with Facebook developers, once again to make Bing search results more social. This new social search service was announced just a week age. Since then, it could only be a matter of time before Google did something similar. Predictably, Google has just introduced social enhancements to their search service. More »
Bing Recommends Twitter Users Based On Search
27th September 2010
Bing Social now recommends Twitter users that a user could follow, based on their search query. The new feature is known as ‘People Recommendation’. More »
Microsoft Struggles To Gain In Mobile Search
16th September 2010
Although Microsoft is doing quite well for itself in the desktop search market, they are still struggling to improve their position in the mobile search market. More »
Bing Overtakes Yahoo! In U.S.
14th September 2010
A recent report from Nielsen indicates that Microsoft’s search engine Bing has overtaken Yahoo! in terms of popularity in the U.S. market. More »
Bing Mobile Enhances Local Search
20th August 2010
Mobile search and local search are both gaining in importance. The convergence of the two is expected by many to be the ultimate use of mobile search. Bing mobile is working hard to ensure that they don’t miss out when that happens. More »
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