Bing vs. Google: A side-by-side comparison
I freely admit that I haven't used Bing for anything other than a quick vanity search when it was first released. But a new website (new to me anyway) just might have what it takes to make me switch.
Ask.com bets on semantic search, targeting special audiences
In the past eight months, Ask.com has unfurled a set of changes to its search engine that the IAC unit calls a success, although its share of U.S. search queries has actually shrunk during that time period.
Bing filters out sensitive results for Chinese searches
Microsoft's Bing search engine filters out some sensitive results from searches made in simplified Chinese script.
Google censors China porn searches
Google disbled Google Suggest features on Google.cn and made several other changes to block smut.
Microsoft's Mobile Trouble: Can It Buy Its Way Out?
As more consumers and business users use their cell phones just as they would a PC for e-mail, Web surfing, instant messaging, purchases, and photo and music storage, the risk grows that Microsoft will become a non-player in the red-hot mobile space, say industry analysts.
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New Macxplosion: iMacs, minis, Macbooks, Magic Mouse!
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BlackBerry Storm 2: Is it worth the upgrade?
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Microsoft locking out unauthorized Xbox 360 storage devices
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Experimenting on Mechanical Turk: 5 How Tos
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The Decline and Fall of the Idealistic Spark
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Windows unsafe for online banking? Shopping?
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In search of the ultimate temporary office
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Thirty years of spreadsheets
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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