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 they opt to “de-index” their sites from Google. It all started with News content providers having a dispute with Google. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch has threatened with legal action to prevent Google from “stealing” articles published in his newspapers. Read further »

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, Read further »

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 catching up. Looking at the Spetember’s numbers, shall we do a similar interpretation of September’s numbers  as a sign of Bing’s ultimate demise, taken from live analytics firm StatCounter. Read further »

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 technology from Bing, it left open and non-exclusive the fate of several deals the one-time #2 search provider had already made, especially with carriers. Specifically, does Bing become the default search provider for services that had previously made a deal with Yahoo? The answer appeared to be Read further »

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 about the deal, unveiled Wednesday after more than a year in the making. Under terms of the 10-year deal, Microsoft’s Bing search engine and adCenter platform will power Yahoo’s search-based advertising business, while Yahoo’s sales team will handle both companies’ Read further »

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 »

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 service comScore closely confirms what the early samples were saying: During the month of June, Microsoft-hosted searches including Bing for US customers numbered just 30 million more than for Microsoft-hosted searches including Windows Live the month before. This is during a month when just over 14 billion Read further »

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 Read further »

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. I occassionally use translators to translate from German, Spanish to English via google translator. Recently, I had my eye on BIng Translator. I had no hopes for Bing but to my surprise, it was awesome. It brought features that even google translator isn’t capable of: 1. Live Translation: Bing translator loads your page in the native language of the page then translates Read further »

Google caches the web information slowly. With the speed of the information coming into the web every millisecond, Google doesn’t do a good job in giving LIVE results. With News, Blogs and micro blogging like Twitter having thousands of new peices of information every second,  google can’t really speed up to this rate. We need an alternative that can satisfy our LIVE news requirement. Google will still be our primary search engine but for live events we need something better. Were you thinking about Bing at this time? Don’t even dare to! Bing has no base, past or future, I’m talking about a 6month testing mature Realtime search engine “ Read further »