Tag Archive | "Bing"
RIM to make Bing the default for search and maps; will integrate Bing on the OS level
By Sarah Petit: Score one for Bing! By all accounts, Google completely dominates search. Hell, Google is largely synonymous with search. Google this, Google that. But Google does have some competition in the form of Microsoft’s Bing, which has seen incremental growth over the past few years. And now comes word via Steve Ballmer at […]
Continue reading...The implications of Microsoft’s partnership with Kayak
Friday, March 11, 2011
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Microsoft recently struck a deal whereby travel results on Bing will be powered by KAYAK, a niche travel-centric search engine that helps users find attractive deals for flights, hotels, cruises, and rental cars by scouring the net and finding the best possible deals from an assortment of sites. It’s a useful travel booking search aggregate, […]
Continue reading...Google claims Bing is copying their search results
Saturday, February 26, 2011
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Search Engine Land wrote a few weeks ago: Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this. As a result of the apparent […]
Continue reading...Microsoft Bing coming to the iPhone?
Saturday, May 29, 2010
TechCrunch reports: Microsoft Bing will replace Google in the next version of the iPhone operating system to be released in June, we’ve heard from mulitple sources, including a high level source who claims to have been briefed on the matter. We’re not calling this more than a rumor yet, but one thing is sure – […]
Continue reading...Ballmer on Google: “They did it right first”
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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Earlier this week at the Search Marketing Expo (I was going to go but I couldn’t find it), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer addressed if Bing can ever supplant Google as the top search engine on the market. “There’s no good answer to this question,” Ballmer explained, “If you say yes, you sound arrogant. If you […]
Continue reading...Does Steve Jobs hate Google CEO Eric Schmidt? More on the Bing/iPhone story…
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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In an interesting post on CNBC, Jim Goldman highlights some fascinating nuggets of information about recent reports that Apple is considering making Bing the default search engine on the iPhone, at the obvious expense of Google. Citing a source familiar with the ongoing “search dynamics” between Microsoft and Apple, Goldman gives us a little bit of background as […]
Continue reading...Will Bing be the default search engine on the iPhone?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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I sure as hell hope not, and while Apple is clearly beefing with Google these days, Google certainly is the top choice when it comes to search engines and hopefully Apple won’t compromise on quality just to stick it to Google. But BusinessWeek reported last night that Apple and Microsoft are in talks to do […]
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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