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Yahoo’s 2010 Turn-Around Strategy Revealed: A Cycling Team

By Sumaira Bajwa • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Technology

Oh, Yahoo.
Revenues are down. Search share is down. The social stuff has been outsourced to Facebook. The search stuff is about to be outsourced to Bing. Things are not exactly on the up and up. Not even just one “up.” But it would appear that Yahoo is not one to let grim news stand in [...]



What People Are Searching for on Bing : Secret Exposed

By Sharafat • Aug 2nd, 2009 • Category: Technology

Well, to be honest it isn’t a secret and its there for everyone to see and to observer and to unleash the power. Bing is a new search engine by the Microsoft, all poised to taken on the competitors like Yahoo and the Google and the rest. Bing has been built on top of many [...]



Bing Will Power Yahoo Search

By Sharafat • Jul 28th, 2009 • Category: Technology

It’s already been more than a year since Microsoft’s deal to outright acquire a Yahoo for a staggering $44.6 billion fell apart. But much speculation has remained as to whether or not the two companies would still end up working together in some capacity, with comments from executives on both sides adding fuel to the [...]



Submit Blog or Website to Bing

By Sharafat • Jul 23rd, 2009 • Category: Technology

Generally our web crawler, MSNBot, can find most pages on the Internet. However if your site does not appear on Bing, you can send us the address (URL).
To submit your website or blog to Bing, click here.



HOW TO: Combine Facebook and Twitter for Live Chat

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jul 13th, 2009 • Category: Technology

There aren’t a lot of solutions that connect Facebook friends to Twitter followers. In general, these two groups are separate, but there a lot times where we want to bring them together – i.e. to chat about a new business idea. When you have a group, you want to create a chat, but getting people [...]



Bing and Twitter

By Sharafat • Jul 3rd, 2009 • Category: Technology

Microsoft is dipping its toes into the hot new area of real-time search. The company said Wednesday that Bing, the search engine it unveiled a month ago, would begin including the latest output of popular Twitter users in its search results.
“There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data [...]



Bing and Google Rock : Where is Yahoo Search ?

By Sharafat • Jun 6th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing, Microsoft’s new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.
The company’s analysis for Thursday finds that in the U.S. Bing overtook Yahoo to take second place [...]



Bing Travel Arrives

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jun 5th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Microsoft this morning announced that it is rolling out Bing Travel, one of the verticals it’s focusing much of its attention on when it comes to the recently unveiled “decision engine” the company set out to conquer market share from Google and Yahoo Search. Bing Travel, as we mentioned when we posted the first screenshots [...]



Microsoft Effort to Best Google Yields Results

By Sharafat • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Google is to search what Kleenex is to tissues. Even if you’re in the habit of using another search engine like Yahoo to look up something online, you probably say you “Googled” it because everyone knows what you mean. Microsoft Corp. is hoping you’ll change your habits and start “Binging” for that which you once [...]



Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback?

By Sharafat • Jun 2nd, 2009 • Category: Technology

One of Microsoft’s best innovations has been its search Cashback program, which is a rewards system for users of the software giant’s search. Bing, which launched a few days early, seems to integrate Cashback everywhere–especially with anything related to shopping.
That’s one thing that strikes me about Bing, which is a strong search entry (Techmeme). Then [...]