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It’s time to brush up on your Klingon, Star Trek fans. Search engine Bing has just added the official language of the series to its language translator. Now, you can translate words from English into Klingon — or the other way around. The addition comes just days before the arrival of J.J. Abram’s Star Trek Continue Reading →

Social ranking company Klout is offering a new way to boost your score: sharing opinions on the subjects in which you already have some influence, and using the data to help answer questions on Bing.  In an expanded partnership with Microsoft, Klout will bring answers from its new “experts” service to the top of Bing Continue Reading →

Considering Microsoft’s efforts to rebrand, redesign and rebuild its Windows platform, it’s no surprise to hear the company is tweaking the visual aesthetics of its other brands, too. Speaking at Design Day 2013, Wolff Olins creative director Todd Simmons and Windows Phone design studio manager Albert Shum talked about the challenges of rebranding a company Continue Reading →

Microsoft on Thursday announced the launch of Bing Offers in the US. The site aggregates deals from “a broad set of partners” including what the company claims are many of the “leading local deal providers.” Bing Offers’ features are as follows: All your favorite deals in one place: You no longer need to browse through Continue Reading →

While most people probably don’t use a secure connection to reach Bing, those who do are being warned by their browsers this morning that something may be amiss. A misconfigured X.509 certificate on Microsoft’s Bing search engine sites is causing errors for visitors over HTTP Secure (HTTPS) connections. The certificate, which was apparently misconfigured by Continue Reading →

Not all search engines are created equal—and when it comes to Microsoft’s Bing, it seems that means malicious websites are happily returned far more often than by Google. An 18-month project by German independent testing lab AV-Test reveals that Bing returns five times as many results which link through to malware infested websites than Google. Continue Reading →

Social media influence scoring startup Klout announced Thursday that it will more fully integrate users’ Instagram and Microsoft Bing accounts. Now a users’ Instagram influence will be factored into a user’s overall Klout score. Bing accounts are able to be connected, but the data will be considered in Klout scores in the future. In the Continue Reading →

As you’re well aware, St. Patrick’s Day is this weekend and millions of people will celebrate the Irish with parades, green cheer and perhaps a pint of their favorite beer. Bing has pulled some of the top searches before St. Patrick’s Day showing the most searched beers and the top cities to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It Continue Reading →

Yandex is probably the biggest search engine few people have ever heard of. The Russian search engine has surpassed Microsoft’s Bing in the world’s top search engine rankings, according to Search Engine Watch, which got its data from ComScore. Coming in first place is Google with 114.7 billion search queries and 65.2 percent of the Continue Reading →

As bedfellows go, Microsoft and Facebook have had something of an open relationship; a knot of social / search entanglement that recently yielded Graph Search, among other crossovers. But, as of Wednesday, the two companies are looking to take things even further by building upon the work started with Bing Tags last summer. The integration, Continue Reading →