Comscore has released data recently that shows Microsoft Bing has overtaken Yahoo for the first time in history to become the Number 2 search engine. In December 2011 Yahoo received 2.65 billion searches whereas Microsoft Bing received 2.75 billion in the same period. However this growth is not being celebrated at Microsoft. Not only is Read News…
Bing Beats Yahoo
January 17th, 2012 by Geoff
Yahoo Migrates to Bing in 7 More Countries
August 24th, 2011 by Geoff
Yahoo’s user interface is still one of the most powerful and attractive in the world. With quick and simple access to daily news, mail and search it is carved its stance in becoming a go-to page for many resources. The seven additional countries where Bing is powering Yahoo are Austria, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands Norway, Read News…
Bing Travel Unrolls New Place Page Updates
June 2nd, 2011 by Geoff
There has been an update on Google’s new flight schedule search widget and its importance in one specific arena: competing with Bing’s ever-growing Travel section. So they are not outdone by Google, Bing has hit back into action with the latest release of updates to their places pages. They are taking the opportunity also to Read News…
Bing Becomes Search Option For Firefox
May 5th, 2011 by Geoff
Businesses such as Google and Microsoft have a major advantage due to their size; these companies can optimize their numerous products for their existing services (including Google and Bing search). Microsoft is starting to lose ground with Internet Explorer which is rather significant for all their additional products. Internet Explorer 9 has a minimalist structure, Read News…
Bing Branches Out
March 7th, 2011 by Geoff
Bing is introducing deals for mobile and the PC. Mobile deals now available for the HTML5 sites for the iPhone and Android. They’re not yet in Bing’s mobile apps but will be integrated soon according to Microsoft’s Stefan Weitz. The source of deals here is The Dealmap, which is also the principal source of offers Read News…
Google Vs Bing: Round 2
February 4th, 2011 by Geoff
The war of words between Google and Bing has escalated again today with a denial about copied search results from Bing’s Yusuf Mehdi, who has also accused Google of a form of click fraud in setting up its test involving “honeypot” search results. A strongly-worded denial of Google’s claims has been posted on the Bing Read News…
Bing’s National Tailgating Competition Targets Sports Fans
December 16th, 2010 by Geoff
Bing has now been able to share its influence to the Yahoo! U.S. search engine and is doing so very well in its own right; movements like the Yahoo! Japan/Google partnership have made it clearer that Bing must find relevant niche markets if it’s going succeed. The newest group Bing are focusing on are sport Read News…
EU Anti-Trust Commission Looks At Google
December 1st, 2010 by Geoff
American search giant Google is the current subject of a probe by the European Union anti-trust regulators into whether it discriminates against rival services in it’s search results and also whether it stops some websites in it’s display network from accepting rival’s ads. Rivals including Microsoft’s Ciao from Bing filed an antitrust complaint against Google Read News…
