In an effort to beat Google at mapping, Microsoft Bing will use crowd-sourced photos to create a 3-D virtual worlds in its Maps application, the company has told FastCompany.com. The 3-D models will eventually be knitted into Bing ...READ»
Remember back in olden days when a story would break and the chief at the local daily would yell, "Stop the presses!" Well, they've finally stopped. And in the future, most of our newspaper content will be delivered via digital tech. ...READ»
Microsoft is talking to MySpace about a music partnership, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The deal may mean a leap-frog in popularity for MSN's music portal. MySpace's music site is second only to AOL's with 27 million ...READ»
Update: Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, has just announced that the search giant has "reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results." Bing has won what ...READ»
The on-again, off-again talks between Google and Twitter are apparently on again, according to a new rumor--only this time Microsoft's in the mix too. But what are these three talking about? Data on all those Tweeps and Tweets, in real time.READ»
Today Yahoo! began a $100 million advertising push with the following commercial, which the company says is titled "Anthem." Can Yahoo win the search-ad wars with inundation? That's a lot of humanity for one ad: a lot of colors, a ...READ»
Before getting into how we feel about Yahoo’s new marketing campaign, let’s get the news out of the way. The company's new slogan is “It Starts With Y!ou.” That’s their spelling (or misspelling), not ours. Yahoo is spending ...READ»
We thought it was a done deal: Yahoo and Microsoft were cosying up together, with Bing superceding Yahoo's own search engine. Now there's news Yahoo may let users choose which engine runs on their pages. What's going on?This data has ...READ»
Microsoft dropped a major new Bing feature today: "visual search." It does what it sounds like, instead of giving you a list of links with thumbnails, Bing gives you a bunch of images you can sort through. But does this actually ...READ»
There we were just thinking Microsoft had sewn-up Yahoo's search-engine powers by licensing Bing to it, and now it looks like Yahoo's still polishing its search powers all on its own anyway. What the heck is going on?
Complex, ...READ»
Microsoft's Bing just keeps getting more interesting: The latest news is that Microsoft recently closed a deal with WolframAlpha's management to get some of Wolfram's impressive sciencey "fact calculation" goodness showing in Bing's ...READ»
Combining search functionality with social networking is all the rage, and Facebook's been testing stuff for a while...but it's just given its system a new sound effect: When you use Facebook search now, you'll get a Bing. That'll be ...READ»
In my book The Way of Innovation,
I talk a lot about how consumer habits can become a powerful underpinning of a
company’s grand strategy. For example, when I was a loyal Starbucks customer (someday I’ll share why I no longer ...READ»
When Farecast became part of Microsoft's Bing Travel, it instantly became one of my go-to Web resources for business travel. For one thing, its search function is much more logical than that of an online travel agency. For another, it ...READ»
New data suggests Microsoft's Bing search engine is continuing to grow well, weeks after its launch. It's great news for the team at Redmond...but it started us wondering: Are we in the middle of a Microsoft Rennaissance?
Microsoft's ...READ»
Just as Google levels its sights on Microsoft's OS dominance, Microsoft is quietly adding some Bing to email provider Hotmail, nudging hundreds of millions of users toward Microsoft's Bing decision engine.
The primary change to ...READ»
Last week I spent a day with Microsoft managers in Redmond,
Calif. Much of the talk was about Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine. You may
have already read a lot about Bing – the massive marketing campaign of people ...READ»
The Bing search engine seems to be coming up with one surprise after another: It expanded Microsoft's share of the browser market slightly last month, and, better yet, it now includes Tweets from Twitter among its search ...READ»
Put an end to blindness, bullshit, copyright laws and Time Warner's dark hegemony? Sure: the top tech stories of the week are all about the death of things that Web nerds hate--and that includes Bing, whether you like the idyllic backgrounds or not.
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Bing's second-week scores are in, and the bigwigs in Redmond must be smiling. Numbers released from ComScore today show that Bing gained nearly another full percentage point of market share in its second full week on the Web, ...READ»
Microsoft's newly released "decision" engine Bing pushed Microsoft Sites' market share up in its first full week, according to numbers released today by Internet audience gauge comScore. Preliminary numbers have been positive for ...READ»
This week has been all about Microsoft's Bing, the company's rival to Google. And now that its travel engine is live too, ready to help you globe-trot, we've taken it for a very quick spin for you.
Bing Travel may just be ...READ»
When Microsoft's Bing search engine launched this week we gave it a thumbs-up, now a new study from Nielsen shows it may be able to steal a big chunk of the search market from Google. Yet despite these wins, Bing is off to a ...READ»
When Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft's Bing search service last week, he said it was due June 3. But Bing has already gone live, and we took it for a test drive. Is it a threat to Google?READ»
We heard rumors the other day, and Steve Ballmer officially revealed the existence of Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, during the D7 conference.
The name was carefully chosen to help with the branding--it helps to have a ...READ»
