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Microsoft on Thursday released a massive update to Bing that surfaces various new types of content directly in search results. The list includes TED talks, famous speeches, national anthems, online courses, university comparisons, scientific concepts, historic events, related people, animal subspecies, as well as app and software downloads. Here’s a quick rundown of all these Continue Reading →

Yahoo! agreed to disclose more details on its revenue tied to search and display advertising after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sent letters to the company asking for clarification. The company outlined the portion of revenue it gets from a search agreement with Microsoft, following inquires stretching back several months, according to new regulatory Continue Reading →

Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft’s chief executive officer, would consider breaking with decades of tradition by focusing the company’s strategy around making the popular Office software programs like Word, Excel and PowerPoint available on a broad variety of smartphones and tablets, including those made by Apple and Google, said three Continue Reading →

This is a perfect example of eating your own dog food. Microsoft announced on Monday it has implemented Internet Explorer 11’s new pre-render tag in Bing. If you’re using Microsoft’s latest browser, you’ll notice that when you perform a search in Bing, clicking on the top result will result in an almost-instantly loaded page. This Continue Reading →

Bing announced on Wednesday that it has integrated Pinterest data into its image search capability. Noting that computer sorting is a powerful tool, but that individuals can also effectively curate, Bing has added a new image collections feature. Pinterest is a popular tool that allows its users to aggregate images of any genre and share Continue Reading →

Did you find this blog post through Bing?  Probably not — 67% of worldwide searches go through Google, 18% through Bing.  But Microsoft has advertised in a substantial TV campaign that — in the cyber analog to blind taste-testing — people prefer Bing “nearly 2:1.”  A year ago, when I first saw these ads,  the Continue Reading →

Microsoft’s Bing search engine is popularly regarded as something of a joke. Despite powering searches for both Yahoo and Facebook, its hardly anybody’s go-to search engine outside of those spheres — and is seen by many as an icon of CEO Steve Ballmer’s difficulty launching really great, popular products on a consistent basis. That being Continue Reading →

Microsoft’s plan to battle Google in the classroom is launching on Wednesday. Bing for Schools is a new ad-free version of Microsoft’s search service that includes strict filtering and privacy protections designed for schools. The pilot kicks off with 800,000 students in a number of US schools today, with plans to extend it elsewhere for Continue Reading →

Microsoft is making a play for the education sector with Bing for Schools, a voluntary program that tailors the company’s search engine for students based in the US. The tweaked Bing experience, suitable for students between kindergarten and the end of high school, removes all advertisements from the search engine due to Microsoft’s belief that Continue Reading →

Microsoft announced on Thursday a new experiment for its Bing search engine that’s a bit different from the usual social search and algorithm updates we’ve come to expect from the service. Bing Boards, as this new effort is called, aims to create something akin to curated search results for a select group of searches. These Continue Reading →