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Bing and Yahoo sponsored results lead to hard-to-remove rootkit

Searching for Flash Player on Bing and Yahoo can lead to rogue pages distributing a hard-to-remove rootkit, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor GFI Software.

By Lucian Constantin | 15 October, 2011 01:37

Tags: Yahoo, security, search engines, Microsoft, malware, intrusion, internet, Exploits / vulnerabilities, bing, advertising
IBM: After 30 years, PC going the way of the vacuum tube and typewriter

Thirty years ago, IBM created the first personal computer running Microsoft's MS-DOS. Today, IBM and Microsoft seem to have very different views on the future of the PC.

By Jon Brodkin | 11 August, 2011 08:17

Tags: Xbox, tablets, smartphone, Skpe, pc, Office365, Microsoft, iPhone, iPad, IBM, Components, Commodore Windows, bing, Apple, Android
User satisfaction study: Facebook vulnerable to Google+

User satisfaction with Facebook is low enough that the social networking site risks losing significant market share to Google+, according to a new study.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 19 July, 2011 14:07

Tags: youtube, Yahoo, social networking, search engines, MySpace, msn, Microsoft, internet, Google+, Google, Foresee, Facebook, bing
Microsoft's frenemies: The necessity of partnering up

How do you solve a problem like Apple and Google?

By Shane O'Neill | 14 May, 2011 01:50

Tags: wireless, unified communications, Telecommunication, smartphones, Skype, search engines, search, rim, Phones, Nokia, networking, mobile, Microsoft, internet, Google, Convergence, consumer electronics, Blackberry, bing, Apple
Microsoft adds Facebook 'likes' to Bing search results

Microsoft on Wednesday showed how Facebook friends will be able to influence Bing users' search results, as part of a wide-ranging update on search that also included developments for its image, maps and mobile services.

By James Niccolai | 16 December, 2010 06:24

Tags: Yahoo, search engines, Microsoft, internet, Google, Facebook 'Likes', Facebook, bing

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Bing gains again -- should Google worry?

Microsoft's Bing search engine may still be a bit player in the lucrative online search business dominated by Google, but it's slowly and steadily gaining users.

By Jeff Bertolucci | 11 March, 2010 11:06

Tags: search engines, Google, bing
Bing now a serious challenger to Google

Given undistinguished history of Microsoft's late and unlamented Live Search engine, the predecessor to Bing, it's easy to dismiss Redmond as a hapless also-ran in the search market. But given the vast sums of money and resources that Microsoft is investing in its fledging Google challenger, this could change in a hurry.

By Jeff Bertolucci | 12 November, 2009 10:34

Tags: search engines, Google, bing
The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: questions and answers

Well, friends, sound the wedding bells: The longest-running courtship in the history of mankind has finally reached its climax. No July Fools' joke here -- Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to tie the knot and form a search partnership.

By JR Raphael | 30 July, 2009 08:55

Tags: bing, Microsoft, Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, Yahoo
Yahoo Search: RIP

Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo who were at the time students at Stanford University.

By Jared Newman | 30 July, 2009 08:59

Tags: bing, Google, Microsoft, search engines, Yahoo
Bing filters out sensitive results for Chinese searches

Microsoft's Bing search engine filters out some sensitive results from searches made in simplified Chinese, the script used to write the language in China, searches revealed Thursday.

By Owen Fletcher | 25 June, 2009 20:30

Tags: bing, China, internet filtering, Microsoft

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