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Microsoft Street Slide: Pan through Street Maps

Thursday, July 29th, 2010 | Author: admin

Google Maps has the user’s no.1 choice when it comes to mapping a location or finding directions. Sure their StreetView is awesome, but the latest one from Microsoft Research called Street Slide makes StreetView look inferior, under-utilizied — They missed out all the Panoramas.

Often we navigate into streets and find it hard to recognize the Buildings with the immersive the 360 environment. Microsoft Research wants to change that. Street Slide, a research project, aggregates all the photos from 360 .. Read Further »

Category: microsoft | Tags: bing, maps, microsoft, navigation, research | View Comments

Microsoft to Pay for De-Indexing from Google

Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | Author: admin

Microsoft had been having a tough time tackling Google’s leadership in Search. In the past they have given out several offers, UI changes to attract users.

Well, the battle just got a whole lot dirtier, as The Financial Times has uncovered news that Microsoft has approached several news content providers, offering them money if .. Read Further »

Category: Search | Tags: bing, microsoft, Search | View Comments

Bing, Google Search go RealTime with Twitter

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | Author: admin

We had been shouting in the dark that Google and Bing Search are too slow. Seems like Both search leaders have woken-up to it and they are going RealTime with Twitter.

Microsoft announced back in June that it will add live updates from micro-blogging service Twitter to its search engine: Bing. However, it is now ready for going live, details described here. Following that, Google too .. Read Further »

Category: Google, Search | Tags: bing, Google, Search, Twitter | View Comments

Google kicks Bing, Recovers search Share: 80 percent

Thursday, October 01st, 2009 | Author: admin

The Redmond giant over-hyped search engine, Bing, had a bad adoption during the last month (September), leading to give Google a sky-high search share of 80%, second-highest since last November share of 81.14%

For the last two months, as Microsoft conveys, Bing had a gradual ascend in usage share against Google, was a sign of Bing’s inevitably .. Read Further »

Category: Google, Search | Tags: bing, Google, microsoft, Search | View Comments

Google Search Replaces Bing on Yahoo UK

Monday, August 31st, 2009 | Author: admin

This could be one of those things that Microsoft least expected, and Google waited for weeks.

When Microsoft made its deal last month with Yahoo to provide the search infrastructure for its home page, using .. Read Further »

Category: Search | Tags: bing, Google, microsoft, Search, yahoo | View Comments

Microhoo Deal dips Yahoo share – Ballmer Surprised

Friday, July 31st, 2009 | Author: admin

Steve Ballmer had been looking into this deal with sky high hopes and desperation. But a bad news was awaiting to settle down his excitement. The Wall Street reacted negatively to Yahoo’s plan to hand over its Internet search and advertising reins to Microsoft.

“Nobody gets it,” he said .. Read Further »

Category: microsoft | Tags: bing, market share, microhoo, microsoft, steve ballmer, yahoo | View Comments

Official – Microsoft and Yahoo Search and Advertising Deal Insights

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 | Author: admin

The rumors had been living for Microsoft-Yahoo deal since a year now. Last year, Microsoft failed to impress the shareholders, and could not settle with a deal to buy Yahoo.

Since then, we have seen a bunch of news about Micro-hoo! deals. With no final news coming out, it was getting fishy. But today, the deal was finally announced: Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally Married under a Deal - strictly limited to internet search and advertising.

This move, as per the companies, is supposed to help both in their competition with Google. The deal covers a whole chunk of things, but the most important one is that .. Read Further »

Category: Featured, Search, microsoft | Tags: bing, microhoo, microsoft, Search, steve ballmer, yahoo | View Comments

Microsoft Secretly Fears Google even after Bing

Friday, July 17th, 2009 | Author: admin

Microsoft had high hopes on Bing and they have should good numbers, recently. As per the latest reports from ComScore, Bing is not catching up as well as Microsoft quoted it was.

As per Betanews post:

Today, the first broader-based data analysis from ratings .. Read Further »

Category: Featured, Search | Tags: bing, Google, microsoft, Search, yahoo | View Comments

Bing ditches Google, now Ready for RealTime Twitter Search.

Thursday, July 02nd, 2009 | Author: admin

Microsoft adds real-time search capabilities to its Bing search engine as it seeks to knock Google from its search perch.

Now users can use Bing to find the latest Twitter tweets. The Intial move comes as startups CrowdEye, Collecta and others are propagating the Web with real-time search.
In a surprise move. Microsoft July st1 added the ability for users to search Twitter tweets with its Bing search engine, the company’s latest attack on Google’s search stronghold. Bing has has started integrating real time Twitter search results into its results. This is definitely a first .. Read Further »

Category: Uncategorized | Tags: bing, microsoft, Search, Twitter | View Comments

Bing Translator feature Review – Idiotic Innovation?

Friday, June 26th, 2009 | Author: admin

Well, as I blogged earlier, I am not convinced with Bing. Now it’s been a while when people have realized the facts that what is going to be the future of search.