Federated search is one of new features of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. The feature integrates the possibility to search external data sources from within Windows Explorer in the same way a local or remote search is performed. Federated search in Windows 7 is enabled through the Open Search standard with a good dozen connectors [...]

Tags: bing, bing search, federated search, open search, search connectors, windows 7, windows-explorer
Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines

One of the new improvements that Microsoft introduces in their search engine Bing is a Silverlight driven visual search engine. Visual search meaning that pictures will be used to display and navigate the search results instead of text and text links. The benefit is a better search experiment with the limitation that it only works [...]

Tags: bing, bing search, bing visual search, microsoft bing, search engine
Categories: Search Engines

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is doing quite well in several search engine marketing studies. It could do better and one interesting idea that the Microsoft researchers had was to create a game that would help the search results to be better. The game is an experimental game that is currently available on the Microsoft [...]

Tags: bing, bing search, microsoft, microsoft bing, microsoft page hunt, page hunt, search engine
Categories: Microsoft

The coverage of Microsoft’s new search engine Bing was quite extensive here on Ghacks but also on many other sites on the Internet. This is going to slow down in the future but we have two articles about Bing that we would like to publish in the coming days. The first deals with 5 advanced [...]

Tags: bing, bing search, bing tips, microsoft, microsoft search, seach engine
Categories: Search Engines

What better way to test a new or improved search engine than to be stuck with it for a full week without being able to fall back to other search engines. Bing is the new Microsoft search engine and we would like to invite each and everyone of you to test the ins and outs [...]

Tags: bing, bing search, ghacks, live, microsoft, microsoft search, search engine, t-shirts
Categories: Search Engines

Every computer blog seems to have written an article about Microsoft Bing, the new Microsoft search engine that was formerly known as Kumo. No one except for Microsoft employees and probably a few partners have actually tested the search engine yet which makes it impossible to give it a first rating.
Microsoft surely has the work [...]

Tags: bing, bing search, kumo, microsoft bing, microsoft search, search engine
Categories: Search Engines