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Microsoft puts Bing on the App Store

As promised for a while now, Microsoft has released its free Bing App for the iPhone and iPod touch over at the iTunes App Store (going to m.bing.com will redirect you there as well). Verizon phones already offer a mobile version of Bing for Windows Mobile, Blackberry, BREW, and Sidekick...

Mozilla exec: Bing is not popular enough for Firefox

If you download a fresh copy of Firefox, you'll note that the default search engine is not whatever you already have picked in all your other browsers. Instead, Mozilla chooses Firefox's default...

Bing App for iPhone: Smart Move or Wishful Thinking?

Picture 6 Microsoft just launched an app for its search engine Bing for iPhone. Offered gratis on iTunes, the idea is to put a Microsoft search engine in the hands of iPhone users who have shunned Microsoft smartphones. Capturing the iPhone market might be a way for Microsoft to bump up...

Mozilla exec urges Firefox users ditch Google for Bing

Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft's search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically...

Bing ads over 75% more likely to be clicked than Google ads

A month after Bing launched in May 2009, Chitika Research reported that Bing's click-through rate (CTR) was 50 percent better than Google's. We thought this wasn't much of a big...

Microhoo deal finalized, expected to close in early 2010

Late last week, Microsoft and Yahoo announced that they had put the finishing touches on the 10-year partnership they announced in July 2009 that would have Microsoft leading the duo's...

Silverlight-powered Bing Maps beta is beautiful, slow

Microsoft today launched a new Silverlight-powered Bing Maps experience into beta. You can still use the normal non-Silverlight HTML version over at Bing.com/Maps but you now also have access to...

Microsoft-Yahoo search/ad deal approved in Australia, Canada

Australia and Canada have both approved the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo search and advertising deal, making them the first regulators in the world to sign off on it, giving Microhoo two fewer antitrust...

Microsoft responds to call for Bing boycott over China censorship

With the launch of Bing in June 2009, Microsoft's search engine is being scrutinized a lot more than it has in its past incarnations. For example, we noted that at...

Hands on with Bing’s real-time Twitter search

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Robotvision: A decent early stab at augmented reality

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Ever since I first saw heads-up-displays in science fiction movies like The Terminator, I knew that I had to get my hands on one. How neat it would be to get instant information on anything about...

Google search share drops as Bing gains momentum

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