Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Gets Green Light
Antitrust regulators in the U.S. and European Commission have given the green light to allow Yahoo to use Microsoft Bing search for a slice of ad revenue. Yahoo will focus on attracting big advertisers and share the revenue with Microsoft.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said, Yahoo gets to do what we do best: combine our science and technology with compelling content to build personally relevant online experiences to our users and customers.
Apple May Ditch Google And Make Bing Default On iPhone
According to a story published by Business Week, Apple may be making Microsoft’s Bing the default search app. Currently Google search is by default the iPhone search engine. Apple now sees Google as the rival after the popular search engine company launch the Google Nexus One smartphone.
Microsoft Sued Over Bing
Microsoft has been sued over using the name Bing by Bing! Information Designs LLC., a small computer-based design firm. The small firm claims that Microsoft’s use of the name dilutes the value of it and confuses the public about the companies’ relationship to each other.
Microsoft did not care much about this at all saying We do not believe there is any confusion in the marketplace [between the search engine and the design firm. And also the small firm only register their company name in May 26 (according to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office records) this year even though they have set up shop in 2000. Why?
Microsoft filed the name Bing on March 2009. Is there any merit in the suing? Very ambitious indeed.
Microsoft Bing App Now On iPhone
Microsoft is now providing the free Bing App for the iPhone. You can now download it on Apple App Store. The app, will allow you to do Web searches and other specialized queries such as images, videos, maps, business locations, and news. The app also features voice search for maps and the web.
Microsoft Bing Suffers Outage
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, suffers an outage today with users getting a browser error message rather than a search bar. The search service was down for at least 45 minutes before being restored around 7:10 p.m. PST.
Here is what Microsoft said:
The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some internal testing that had unfortunate and unintended consequences.
As soon as the issue was detected, the change was rolled back, which caused the site to return to normal behavior. Unfortunately the detection and rollback took about half an hour, and during that time users were unable to use bing.com.
We strive to maintain a high standard of operational excellence at Bing. We are running a post mortem to find out how our software and processes need to be improved to prevent anything like this from happening again.
Bing Getting Cosy With Wolfram Alpha
Microsoft is adding some enhancements to its Bing search engine, including some that rely on computational information delivered by Wolfram Alpha. Microsoft is also adding MSN Videos, map enhancements, Hover preview functionality, weather results to Bing.
Wolfram Alpha computational search engine make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. Wolfram Alpha contains 10+ trillion of pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains.
Google find things from searching existing data on the internet while Wolfram Alpha do so by doing new computations from its own internal knowledge base.
Google And Bing Searches Getting Social
Microsoft has made a deal to have Facebook and Twitter to deliver real-time search results through the Bing search engine. The Bing Beta Twitter search can be found here.
While Google has reached an agreement with Twitter to include updates in search results. No news about Facebook being searched on Google yet. But we are guessing that is coming soon too.
From Google Blog: Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months.
Microsoft Adds Visual Search To Bing
Microsoft adds an enhancement to Bing that allows users to search items by viewing images instead of sifting through pages of text-based Internet links.
From Microsoft Blog: Visual Search is a new way to formulate and refine your search queries through imagery, particularly for sets of results that tend to be more structured. We call these data groupings galleries.
Microsoft Bing Is Now Live
Microsoft is going to show off Bing, a new version of its Internet search engine (previously Kumo) publicly for the first time on June 3. But it came earlier, the Bing website is now live. Check it out.
Microsoft has rebranded its Windows Live Search to Kumo in early 2009. But now Microsoft have changed the name to Bing. It will use semantic search technology from Powerset which Microsoft have acquired to display refined searches. Microsoft is set to launch an $80 million to $100 million campaign for Bing.
Microsoft has recently announced Windows Live with its “next generation unified experience” features by adding a set of new social networking tools and services to its cloud-based software suite.
Checkout Wired review of Bing: There’s a glimmer of something better than a search engine here — call it an information portal. Bing’s not there yet, but it is pointing the way.
Microsoft Bing Ad
Have a look at Microsoft next search engine, Bing, advertising. Microsoft is set to launch an $80 million to $100 million campaign for Bing. The new search engine will be released on June 3.
Microsoft has rebranded its Windows Live Search to Kumo early 2009. But now Microsoft have changed the name to Bing. It will use semantic search technology from Powerset which Microsoft have acquired to display refined searches.
