The Microsoft Bing development team is trying to distinguish their search engine from Google by adding new features to their search engine. The latest feature that the team is developing goes by the name Bing & Ping. It has been designed to offer Bing users better options to share search results. This feature resembles the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Bing Visual Search
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
Microsoft Will Upgrade Its Bing Search Engine This Fall
Microsoft’s introduction of its Bing search engine has revived search engine competition it seems. Bing did receive some praise since its introduction, and Google has since then reacted by offering search engine users a preview of their upcoming search engine technologies in the form of the sandboxed search engine Caffeine, and a limited test run [...]
- Author: Orrett Morgan
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Microsoft And Yahoo Finally Strike Deal
Well it seems that both Yahoo and Microsoft have reached an agreement regarding their search deal. You might remember that it has been close to two years that both companies have been going at each other with Microsoft even making a $44 billion bid for the embattled search engine. Under the new deal however, both [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Microsoft Page Hunt
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Google Unified Search
You need to search on multiple search engines if you truly want to research a search term, as opposed to simply finding a solution to it. Some users might think that searching in Google is enough to find all the relevant information about a search term and while that may be true more often than [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
Bing Downloader
You might want to try out Bing Downloader if you are a huge fan of the Microsoft search engine Bing, or enjoy looking at the wallpapers that get posted as background images every day. Microsoft has made the deliberate decision to add a background image to their search engine by default. Most likely to look [...]
Take a blind test and change your searching habits
I use Google out of habit and because I have always thought it is the best search engine. I’ve never objectively tried to compare major search engines and as a result I haven’t changed. Blind Search allows you to compare the results of Google, Bing and Yahoo. You search for a term in it, and [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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5 Advanced Bing Tips
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 [...]
