Posts Tagged ‘Bing Gets

Allow us to save you a couple of moments by verifying that today isn’t April 1st and that pigs haven’t taken to the sky.  Now, there’s little left to do aside from break the news: Apple and Microsoft are supposed to be in talks to make Bing the iPhone’s default search engine. BusinessWeek’s Peter Burrows [...]

Microsoft has improved its autosuggest feature on Bing to provide more timely results. On the Bing Search Blog the company says that its research found 45 percent of search queries result either in a user conducting an immediate re-query, or quitting the page altogether. As an example Bing cites the Golden Globe Awards and says [...]

A little bit of data from the Efficient Frontier Q4 2009 Search Engine Performance Report has been made available, and it’s completely un-shocking in that it shows search marketers are still more than happy to spend their money with Google.  The interesting thing, though, is that Bing seems to have gained a little ground on [...]

U.S. software retail sales fell slightly by just over 1 percent for the 2009 holiday season, according to The NPD Group. Sales for the 5-week holiday period totaled $278 million dollars, up from the 13 percent decline during the 2008 holiday season. The operating systems category showed the strongest improvement during the holiday season, boosted [...]

Microsoft is not the only one with some new offerings in the way of health search today. Google has added a slew of new cities to its Flu Trends product. The move is timed well, as the company acknowledges that it is National Influenza Vaccination Week. "Since the strain of influenza that is active (H1N1) [...]


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