Bing
With Windows 7 shipping in less than a month, we’re sure to smell a whiff of the Microsoft of old from the Pacific Northwest. After years of dropped balls and…
Bing Keeps Pecking Away At Search Share And Making Gains
Every month since its launch, Microsoft’s Bing search engine keeps taking a little bit of market share. In August, Bing gained 0.4 percent to end the month with 9.3 percent…
Bing Pops With Visual Search
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand keywords. Today at TechCrunch50, Microsoft senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi announced a new visual search feature on Bing which returns results as an…
Bing Loves The Porn Hounds (Updated)
Bing is an excellent search engine. For one thing the surprising early reviews probably forced Yahoo’s hand as they entered into one of the dumber corporate transactions I’ve ever seen.…
Microsoft's 'Ten Grand' Competition Ends, Was Actually Pretty Clever
Remember that online competition Microsoft Australia set up where they’d give away $10,000 to someone who found the cash, that was buried somewhere on the Internet? The aim was to…
Maps Wars: How Google, Microsoft And Yahoo Deal With Bridge Closure
Residents of San Francisco are a bit put off by the temporary closure of the Bay Bridge this holiday weekend. For the next 2+ days, the short bridge commute between…
Microsoft Mulls Making Search Results Shareable With "Bing & Ping"
Websites large and small are quickly learning that a sure way to make something go viral is to make it easy to share on Facebook and Twitter. Why should search…
AJAX Search: Is Google Sweating Bing Or Just Feeling The Need For Speed?
Since February, Google has been quietly testing a new type of search functionality: AJAX search. Basically, Google uses more advanced JavaScript to make search result pages load even faster by…
Microsoft Introduces Bing Cashback To The Masses With Its First TV Ad
Microsoft’s ad blitz for Bing is still going strong, and it’s starting to hone in on a new target: your wallet. Bing’s latest TV ad, which aired for the first…
You Decide Who Photoshop Hacked Microsoft The Best
We are overwhelmed with the 168 responses to our “It’s A Meme! Get Photoshop Warmed Up And Win A Bing Tshirt” post where we asked you, the readers, to come…
Microsoft Ends Bing Promotion Early After Hitting Cashback Limit
There is no denying that Bing’s Double Cashback promotion served up some great deals. But apparently they were so good that Microsoft had to end the deal a full four…
iBing? Microsoft Wants You To Build An iPhone App For That
If you’re doing a web search on your iPhone, chances are that you’re using the built-in search bar in the Safari browser. And if you’re using that, chances are that…
Yahoo Gets With The Program, Spruces Up Video Search With Bigger Player
There’s always been a tension in search between organizing information for users and getting out of the way so they can get to that information as quickly as possible. With…
When It Comes To Search, Bundling Bing In IE Barely Gives It An Advantage
Back in the 1990s during the original browser wars between Netscape and Internet Explorer, one of Microsoft’s chief weapons was the ability to bundle IE into Windows as the default…
Be Careful If You Bing Jessica Biel. Wait, What?
When it comes jumping on new trends in technology, CNN, like most other mainstream media sources is usually fairly slow to act. Sure, they’ve been hyping up Twitter non-stop for…
Bing Doesn't Have Much Zing Yet Outside The U.S. (comScore)
In the two months since Microsoft launched Bing, its new search engine has taken nearly a full point in market share in the U.S. But overseas, the Bing effect is…
The Top Query At Today's Yahoo Event? Bing.
The Q&A session following Yahoo’s “What Matters Most” event today was interesting. That is, interesting if you’re confused by the whole Bing/Yahoo strategy going forward. And it would certainly be…
What Wolfram Alpha Really Did This Summer: Struck A Deal With Bing.
Computer scientist Stephen Wolfram gave a report today listing what the team at Wolfram Alpha, his new search engine, did this summer. They added new knowledge domains and over 2…
New Web App 'Makes Sweet Love' To Bing APIs, Lets You Search As You Type
Meet the Real Live Search, a web app with the tagline, “your browser and Bing’s AJAX APIs make sweet love”. No, this isn’t real-time in the sense that you can…
Bing's Marketshare Continued To Creep Upwards In July
Another month, another report that Bing is chiming slightly louder. Analytics firm comScore has just released its latest figures on search market share, and once again Microsoft’s search engine has…
Caffeine: It's Google On Red Bull, Or Something
Search Engines are like sharks: If they stop moving, they die. Okay, I’m not even sure if that’s really true about sharks. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s not. But…
Which Search Engine Do You Choose In The Blind Test?
Have you tried out this blind search tool yet? It provides results from Google, Yahoo and Bing in three columns but doesn’t tell you which column is which search engine.…
It’s On: Bing Jingle Guy Proves He Sucks Less
Some people have the thinnest skins. Jonathan Mann, known on YouTube as “The Rock Cookie Bottom,” won a $500 contest that Microsoft was holding to encourage people to create a…
Bing Has Succeeded… In Finding The Worst Jingle Ever
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the contest Microsoft’s new search engine Bing was holding to find a catchy jingle for the product. Today, they have announced the winner.…
Google Adds More Options To Image Search
Image search is an area of intense competition between Google, Yahoo, and now Bing. Today, Google Images added some search options to make it easier to filter a search by…
Video: Erick Talks Microsoft/Yahoo On Charlie Rose
TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld appeared on Charlie Rose last night to discuss the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal alongside Steven Levy of Wired and Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal. The…
BongoBing Opposes Microsoft Trademark Application For "Bing"
The Laptop Company, operator of a web-based shopping platform through its BongoBing website, has filed a request for an extension of time to oppose Microsoft in its efforts to register…
And Bingo Was His Name-o
Last February, when the news of the original Microsoft-Yahoo deal first broke, it didn’t take long before people were Photoshopping new logos. Flickr users were especially passionate, fearing that a…
Yahoo Got Binged
Today, Yahoo died as a search engine. If the deal with Microsoft is approved, what will replace it will be Bing, the search engine that Microsoft launched only two months…
Bing's Idea Of A Perfect Summer Vacation: A Terrifying Lightning Storm
So, Microsoft had that contest where it would feature one user’s picture on Bing for an entire day — you know, the one I was mad about because you couldn’t…