Bing

I’m Skeptical About the Future of Bing

by Mike Mansell September 21, 2011

After spending to years and billions of dollars to build Bing, Microsoft doesn’t have much to show for it. Which is why I’m skeptical about the future of Bing.

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Twitter and Bing’s Awkward Tweet Conversation Raises Questions

by Jeff Weisbein September 6, 2011

In a rather odd and clearly scripted conversation on Twitter (screenshot below), it appears that both Twitter and Bing may be working on some kind of new partnership. It could be further integration of Twitter within Bing or perhaps even other Microsoft services and products. Whatever it is, we don’t know at this point. Nonetheless, [...]

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Bing Reaches 14% Marketshare

by Mike Mansell May 12, 2011

In the world of Internet search engines, there has always been this huge perception that Google would always be the largest and dominant search engine on the Internet. After all, we how many times do we hear the term “Bing it”? ”Yahoo it”? ”Jeeves it”? Exactly. Google has not only become a cultural icon, but [...]

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4 Ways Microsoft Could Improve Bing

by Mike Mansell February 2, 2011

When it was first launched in June of 2009, some proclaimed that Bing – a search engine owned, operated, and maintained by software giant Microsoft – would be the future of how we search the web. And while Bing did have a handful of shiny bells and whistles (for the time), the search engine has [...]

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Despite Failure, Microsoft Holds Onto Bing

by Mike Mansell October 30, 2010

In the world of online search engines, Microsoft’s Bing is definitely not unheard of. After coming out in June of 2009, Bing is the forth largest search engine in the world and is used for aproxamately 3.25% of web searches. While this is somewhat of a low number, it is important to consider that in [...]

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Bing Retires Its Cashback Program

by Jeff Weisbein June 4, 2010

Microsoft has just announced via the Bing search engine blog that it will be retiring the Bing Cashback program as of July 30th, 2010. Don’t worry though, you will have a year to be able to redeem any cashback awards you may have earned. Additionally, Microsoft plans to offer 12 months of customer support to [...]

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Apple-Microsoft Deal Could Land Bing As Default Search For The iPhone

by Jeff Weisbein February 14, 2010

Apple is rumored to be in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone effectively ousting Google. If this deal goes through and according to a recent BusinessWeek post it is seeming more and more likely what would you do? Would you a.) not buy an iPhone (ever again or [...]

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Google vs Yahoo & Microsoft

by Jeff Weisbein July 30, 2009

Well, it’s a done deal. Microsoft and Yahoo have come to a 10 year partnership agreement with regards to search. Microsoft’s new Bing search engine will be powering Yahoo search and handling the back end, while Yahoo will essentially be the sales team. While there was no up front payment from Microsoft to Yahoo, the [...]

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Bing Review

by Jeff Weisbein June 11, 2009

A week ago, I proposed a challenge to myself. I challenged myself to “Bing It” for an entire week. I will admit there were times during the challenge where I had wished I could Google something, however, I was able to make it through the week without Google search. It was definitely a great experience [...]

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