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Tread lightly around Mark Zuckerberg [CARTOON]

Posted August 23, 2013 - 6:00 am

The Zuck wants the rest of the world to have access to Facebook - er, the Internet
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Wait – maybe JavaScript IS the top programming language

Posted July 9, 2013 - 6:00 am

The ubiquitous language that’s the “glue” of web pages tops some recent rankings of programming languages
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If you need ammo, Bing is your search engine

Posted May 8, 2013 - 6:00 am

If comparing Bing and Google on regular search results isn’t enough, try comparing them based on autocomplete suggestions
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Microsoft releases free Bing apps for Office 365

Posted February 4, 2013 - 6:04 pm

Five new add-ons for Office 365 let you search the Web within a Word doc, add Bing maps to your files, and spell words phonetically.
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Microsoft opens own social network, Socl

Posted December 5, 2012 - 10:07 pm

Does the world really need another social network?
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Bing's top 2012 search terms: iPhone 5, Facebook

Posted November 27, 2012 - 5:24 pm

The annual list of top search queries on Bing show that Facebook, Apple's iPhone 5 and the presidential election have been of significant interest to the online world during 2012.
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Bing lets you ask your Facebook friends as you search

Posted August 4, 2012 - 7:08 am

Microsoft announced in a blog post that when users do a search, they can tag their Facebook friends by name and get their recommendations on the search.
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Microsoft launches Bing Fund as angel investment fund incubator

Posted July 16, 2012 - 10:35 am

Microsoft has launched the Bing Fund to invest in early-stage startups, and will offer advice, design, and development help.
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No more guns or ammo on Google Shopping

Posted July 2, 2012 - 10:44 am

Google Shopping has a new policy: "We do not allow the promotion or sales of weapons" and related items. But Google Search remains neutral.
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How do U.S. Internet users spell 'search'? G-o-o-g-l-e

Posted March 9, 2012 - 5:16 pm

A Pew Internet survey shows that 83% of American Internet users prefer Google for online search, despite serious misgivings about the company's privacy violations.
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Google regaining lost search market share

Posted February 9, 2012 - 7:26 pm

It's becoming clear that Microsoft and Yahoo are doing nothing to eat into Google's lead in the U.S. search market.
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Who needs SOPA? Judge orders Google, Facebook to hide websites in Chanel case

Posted November 30, 2011 - 12:56 pm

A Nevada judge, siding with Chanel in counterfeit cases, has ordered major search engines and social media sites to "de-index" hundreds of domain names, and awarded those names to Chanel.
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Bing losing billions for Microsoft

Posted September 21, 2011 - 11:44 am

Bing, the search engine from Microsoft trying hard to make a dent in Google's market share, launched in June 2009. Since then, the Bing division has cost Microsoft about $5.5 Billion in losses. Is 14.7 percent of the search market worth losing six and counting billion dollars?
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Bing, Yahoo continue to nibble away at Google's search lead

Posted September 13, 2011 - 11:44 am

The search giant in August falls below 65% of the U.S. search market for the first time in more than a year.
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Are Bing and Yahoo really more effective search sites than Google?

Posted August 12, 2011 - 3:25 pm

If Bing and Yahoo offer better search results than Google, why aren't more people using them?
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Despite slight erosion, Google's search market lead is safe

Posted August 10, 2011 - 4:34 pm

Yahoo and Bing have gained ground on Google in the U.S. search market, but not enough to really matter.
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Microsoft upgrades Bing webmaster tools

Posted June 8, 2011 - 2:08 pm

Microsoft has improved the tools it provides for webmasters to track their sites' visibility on Bing search engine results, so that they can make any necessary adjustments to improve how Bing crawls their content and ranks their pages.
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Bing guy says Google turns users into pidgin English-speaking search dunces

Posted April 12, 2011 - 12:24 pm

This sounds like it comes straight from the classic Microsoft FUD playbook.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Bing Director Stefan Weitz accuses search market leader Google of teaching users very bad habits:
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Bing teams up with travel search site KAYAK

Posted March 4, 2011 - 6:47 pm

Maybe Microsoft thinks the U.S. Department of Justice is about to green-light Google's acquisition of travel software market leader ITA Software and figures it should bulk up.
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For WP7 owners, there are no 'Bing deals'

Posted March 4, 2011 - 11:19 am

Someone needs to explain the whole "mobile ecosystem" thing to Steve Ballmer.
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Bing searches more accurate than Google's, study finds

Posted February 9, 2011 - 7:09 pm

Search engine Bing, and even Yahoo, are providing users with more accurate searches than their rival Google, according to a report out this week.
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Google's copying accusation called 'silly'

Posted February 5, 2011 - 1:26 pm

Even if Microsoft did copy Google's search results the practice couldn't be scaled enough to mimic Google's algorithms in any widespread and meaningful way, search industry analysts and executives said.
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Google catches Bing copying search results

Posted February 1, 2011 - 5:13 pm

An interesting “sting” operation carried out by Google’s search engine team appears to show that Microsoft’s Bing is copying some of Google’s search results.
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Bing sting: Is Microsoft's search engine copying Google?

Posted February 1, 2011 - 4:02 pm

Google thinks rival search engine Bing is copying Google's search results, and even launched a covert operation to catch the Microsoft-owned service red-handed, according to search engine guru Danny Sullivan.
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Facebook, that fierce defender of ~~its~~ your data

Posted January 27, 2011 - 8:37 pm

Hey, all you ad networks and other sleazy data collectors, don't even think of misusing the personal information of Facebook users. That's for Facebook and Facebook alone to do!
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