Google's got two new announcements: It's pairing up with Twitter for Friend Connect login purposes, and it's done the unthinkable and re-designed its home page. Both moves are surprising...do they mean the curly-haired youth of search ...READ»
Google's offering free Wi-fi access in cafes--but not in the U.S. The company is busy wooing customer affections in another country: Japan, where it's losing the search engine battle.
We're used to Google dominating pretty much ...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»
Remember that news about Google kind of getting into the mortgage game? New news means it looks like the search giant is serious about getting into helping you buy homes--Google's quietly pulling together a real estate database.
As ...READ»
We've heard suggestions like it before, but apparently Microsoft is now very close to securing a connection to Twitter's digital data stream to get live Tweet search powers into Bing. Google's execs will surely be foaming at the mouth ...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»
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»
Google's got tentacles everywhere--and it just grows and grows and grows. But here's a head-scratcher: News has surfaced that suggests Google's getting into the mortgage business. Specifically, the loan aggregation business. What ...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»
After years of foreplay, Microsoft and Yahoo have made it official: They're cozying up in bed together. The major beneficiary will be Bing--it'll usurp Yahoo search, boosting its Google rivalry power.
We've been hearing dribs and ...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»
With the launch of the iPhone version of new search engine WolframAlpha, we've decided to pit it against Google in the ultimate test: Which is best for helping you cheat at quizzes?
You're familiar with the scene. You're at a ...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»
