Bing seeks partners for contextual search and widens reach

Widening its reach and congregating even more data for its search results, Bing has risen usage and increased its market share from 7.2 per cent to 30 per cent in the United States since July 2009. This great increase in market share has marginally impacted Yahoo’s search engine market share seriously.

Bing vs Google

Bing’s product director Stefan Weitz, said that Bing will soon offer more and more data resources for the search results including various social media and networks, …

Bing gaining search engine market share from Google

Microsoft’s search engine Bing has gained market share in the field from 13.6 per cent to 13.9 per cent from February 2011 to March 2011 according to comScore, the web statistics company. This is in testament to the company’s efforts to improve the same with the search engine users worldwide.

Bing Search Engine

Stefan Weitz, a director with Bing said that this shows that the people are trying out Bing and are finding Bing a good experience.
Bing has notably improved and …

Director Says Bing is Better Than Google

Yes, you’d expect that from the director for Microsoft’s Bing search engine. But Stefan Weitz has some arguments he has laid out to back up his claim that his search engine is better than the global giant of search engines today.
In the latest salvo in the war of the search engines, a high-ranking Microsoft executive said in an interview with the Huffington Post that Bing is superior in some aspects than Google.
According to Weitz, they at Microsoft have “built some of the most beautiful …

Bing and Google competing over social integration in search engines

Microsoft’s Bing and Google search engine systems are fast incorporating the social networking components into their systems so as to improve and increase user interactivity with the search engines.

Bing vs Google

Even though Bing falls ay back when compared to Google in global search engine market share, Bing has been the first to tap into the social network by incorporating social media integration.
Bing added the Like and Tweet options to search results page so that the information …

Facebook in talks over China

Facebook Inc. has been holding exploratory discussions with possible partners about how to gain traction in China, where a firewall blocks access to any content the government considers inappropriate, forcing users to private network services to gain access to the world’s biggest social networking website.

China currently blocks access to Facebook Twitter, and YouTube.  Google Inc., which owns YouTube, stopped offering service in China because it decided not to censor its …

YouTube rolls out its live streaming site

YouTube has rolled out its first live site ever to stream live videos to its viewers adding live stream capabilities to the Google owned site for the first time.

YouTube Live

In case you are interested in checking out the new site, check out YouTube Live website. Currently, some live shows are being streamed and also you can add any upcoming shows to your Google calender. A show about NBA Playoffs Preview s currently being featured/advertised on the page. The show is to be streamed live at 7 …

Google, Facebook join hands against ‘shocking’ French rule

Group of Internet giants, including search engine Google, the largest social networking site Facebook, and many others on Wednesday announced their intention to file a lawsuit in France’s State Council, the  highest judicial body of country, against the law by local authorities, which obliges the companies to retain internet users’ personal data for a year, reports AFP .
There are more than 20 Internet companies that have joined the initiative, including Dailymotion video service and …

Microsoft Kinect used to make Gmail Motion a reality

Still half asleep last Friday, I logged into my Gmail account and was notified of a new feature for Google’s email called Gmail Motion.
I eagerly watched an introduction video to find out what the guys at Mountain View had for Gmail users and thought the feature was awkwardly cool. I clicked on “Try Gmail Motion”, waiting excitedly for the loading bar to fill for my shot to try out a Kinect-like control experience for my email but lo and behold, an April Fools gag.
I laughed at myself for …

Google Talk Guru: Bot in your friend list answers all your queries?

As always Google every now and then experiments with new ideas, and this time it come up with a new service called Google Talk Guru, the IM bot, which allows users to make queries and receive search results via the instant messaging service Google Talk.
By adding Google Talk Guru bot to your contacts in Google Talk, you can ask it queries and you will get the results as if some friend of you on the other side is answering.
As of now Talk Guru handles user queries in English and sends them to …

Microsoft To File Own EU Antitrust Suit Against Google

Microsoft will be filing its own antitrust suit against Google in Europe alleging the internet search and advertising powerhouse of making it harder for search competitors to compete in the region.
According to reports, the Microsoft suit centers on Google’s access to the metadata of online search competitors.
Among Google’s competitors is Microsoft’s Bing search engine which has seen a constant increase in search share in the US according to recent studies.
Brad Smith, Microsoft general …