Wired contributor Tim Carmody, in response to a piece written by Reuter’s columnist  Tim Cyran last week in which he argues that Microsoft should sell Bing,  provides a range of reasons to explain why Microsoft, won’t, can’t and shouldn’t unload Bing.
 

Microsoft won't sell Bing: Carmody, Foley

First Carmody summarizes the argument by Cyran, and the reaction and buzz from industry insiders to his piece, which received a good deal of attention.  Cyran explains that Bing …

Reuters Breakingviews columnist Robert Cyran wrote an article this week that has received due attention from industry observers – Cyran argues that Microsoft should consider selling its search engine product Bing, because it continues to generate a large loss for the company every year, and it may do better with a different company.
 

Bing should consider selling Microsoft: Cyran

Microsoft believes that Bing strengthens its customer base in a wide range of its offerings, including …

Microsoft has reportedly posted thousands of jobs through a service called Gigwalk for iPhone 4 owners looking for part-time jobs, various reports say.
According to reports, Microsoft is paying iPhone 4 owners who have installed Microsoft’s Photosynth app on their iPhones to take photos of places for a project for its Bing search engine.
Reports say that the thousands of Gigwalk jobs, called “gigs”, are now offered by Microsoft through the service for iPhone 4 owners who want to get paid …

Chinese search superstar Baidu has announced that it will be using Microsoft’s Bing search engine to serve English-language searches on its website.
The move comes as Baidu is setting its sights on international markets and Microsoft is eager to get a share of the massive Chinese market which Google has somewhat given up on.
According to Reuters, Baidu has told them that English language searches on Baidu will be redirected to Bing and Bing will then deliver the results to Baidu’s …

Search engine giant Google is still king of the search engine market, but research firm Compete released data last week showing Microsoft’s Bing has been making progress in taking away some of its market share.

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Compete reported that between May 2010 and May 2011, Google’s market share fell 16 percent, from 73.9 percent to 63.6 percent, while Bing’s market share went up by a whopping 75 percent, increasing from 9.7 percent to 17 percent.  Since the other …

Drilling through Apple’s App Store to find just the right iPhone app can be a challenge, and time consuming, so the announcement by The Bing Team on its blog this week that it has introduced a new Bing app search feature that pushes relevant links to other iPhone apps is welcome news.

The Bing team said that it is introducing the app search feature in order to help people with “‘serendipitous discovery’ by surfacing relevant apps automatically in the context of normal search …

The Bing team announced on its Bing Community Page that is released an updated to Bing for Mobile Browse (m.bing.com) that “includes a number of new features to help you make faster, more informed decisions while on the go.”

Bing’s improvements make it easier for users to share on Facebook, read the news, search local listings and get directions in one view, scan past searches and see trending topics on their mobile phone.  Users can easily share images, local business details, and …

Internet giants Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft don’t agree very often but they managed to reach a consensus about standardized web tags that will let website developers create websites that be found easier on the leading search engines.

Schema.org was launched today by the three Internet companies, allowing web masters will to edit their pages so that they will be more easily found by key search providers, using a collection of HTML tags.  The Schema.org main page states: “This site …

Microsoft is reported to be close to inking a deal with Chinese search engine Baidu in what is perceived as a move by the Windows OS-maker to strengthen its position in the Asian country.
According to Chinese site DoNews which cites unnamed “insiders”, Microsoft’s Bing and Baidu are about to reach “a new strategic partnership”.
Baidu is the top search engine in China, well ahead of global search and advertising giant Google.
Various reports say that Microsoft’s adCenter may use …

In the midst of the race to achieve the majority of search engine market share, Bing and Google have been bringing up too many projects and functionalities, and now, everything aside, they are each blaming the other for stealing search results.

Bing and Google and Yahoo

Recently, a Bing executive had blamed Google for stealing its ideas and product designs to which Google claimed that Bing is stealing and/or copying Google’s search results.
This war of words started after Bing chewed …