Features

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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: bing, Google, search engines

• 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: bing, Google, search engines

• 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

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  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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  Bing makes gains, but is Google actually suffering?

  Microsoft is gaining new ground with its freshly rebranded Bing search engine, some recently released data suggests. Bing, the research finds, grew 0.8 percent during its second week online.

  By JR Raphael | 18 June, 2009 08:26

  Tags: bing, Google, Microsoft, search engines

• Microsoft's Bing Ad Claims to End 'Search Overload'

  Microsoft's first commercial for Bing, the company's recently rebranded search engine, is officially out in the wild. The inaugural Bing ad focuses on the notion of "search overload," suggesting Internet users have been "lost in the links" while America's financial system has been collapsing.

  By JR Raphael | 04 June, 2009 08:44

  Tags: bing, Google, Microsoft

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  Microsoft Bing goes live: So what?

  Now that its available, my first experiences with Microsoft Bing lead me to a simple, inescapable conclusion, "So what?" I had imagined that something as widely hyped as Bing would be a life-changing experience. It wasn't. Not even close.

  By David Coursey | 01 June, 2009 23:16

  Tags: bing, Google, search engines

• Hands on with Microsoft Bing

  At last, Bing has arrived. I tested a preview release of Microsoft's new search/decision engine, previously called Kumo, to see how well it compares. Here's a breakdown of its new features and how well they perform.

  By Tom Spring | 29 May, 2009 02:48

  Tags: bing, Google, live search, Microsoft, search engines

• 5 things I want to know about Bing

  Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is expected to take the stage Thursday at the D: All Things D conference and debut Redmond's new search brand, codenamed Kumo.

  By Ian Paul | 28 May, 2009 05:50

  Tags: bing, Kumo, Microsoft

• Microsoft 'Bing' would bring new life to old domain

  Microsoft's planning to relaunch its Live search engine under the name "Bing," a recent report suggests.

  By JR Raphael | 27 May, 2009 08:45

  Tags: bing, Kumo, Microsoft, Windows Live