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The search engine, Bing, is continuing to make flight search easier for users. Bing announced today that it has teamed up with the travel website Kayak to offer a comprehensive travel search experience. Bing in its blog said that Kayal will give results for travel search in U.S. With Kayak’s partnership and its existing travel [...]
Google accused its rival search engine Bing that it is cheating by copying search results from Google. Google complained to search engine land that Google’s sting operation found evidence that Bing has been using Microsoft IE to see what users search and click while doing Google search and use it to provide as Bing’s search [...]
Microsoft Research and Bing announced that they are launching a Speller Challenge to develop a speller that can generate the better spelling alternatives for a mistyped search query. Announcing the Speller Challenge, Bing said in its blog that the common technique of using Spelling alteration in search engines to correct typing errors by suggesting alternative [...]
Facebook and Microsoft announced new features in Bing that will make search more social and personalized.Bing has added Facebook’s instant personalization to its search results. Bing will seek the help of your Facebook friends to answer your search queries on Bing. Bing unveiled two new features,”liked” search Bing results and people search powered by Facebook, [...]
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced this Monday that the transition of Yahoo organic search from Yahoo to Microsoft technology is complete in US and Canada. Now, almost all forms of Yahoo search, including Web, Images, and Video search on computers and mobiles are powered by Microsoft platform. What this means for users is that for any [...]
Microsoft and Yahoo announced in their blogs that they have started testing Bing in Yahoo search. In the tests, up to 25% Yahoo search traffic in US is using organic (or algorithmic) and paid search listings from Bing. Microsoft said, We’ve got a couple of tests going on right now to test both our ability [...]
Often, you hear from Apple and Google about their success in terms of numbers. Microsoft has been silent on it success by the numbers. On Friday, in its blog, Microsoft gave a detailed set of numbers for its products, like Windows 7, Office 2010, Bing, and, Xbox 360. In addition to the blog, Microsoft is [...]
Microsoft updates its iPhone App by adding two new features, Social search and Image search from your mobile. In addition, Bing’s Movies and shopping section gets a face lift. Bing App is free to download at iTunes. Here is how Bing describes on what you can do with the Bing App for iPhone and iPod [...]