In the GT Blind Search application for Search Engine comparison, Bing and Yahoo has fared better than Google in all time numbers. There were total of 118 queries done by various people using the site, and 40+ goes to Bing’s favor. There were 88 web search queries, 10 news and 20 image queries.
In the current [...]
If you thought that Hotmail was almost out of the game with Gmail and Yahoo killing Microsoft’s very famous email service, then you might have to rethink again. That’s because with the recent changes announced by the company, it is sure to get back into the square to pull down its rivals as the overhaul [...]
Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences Labs division has released a new tool called Spindex that aggregates social information from the various social networking sites. Bringing the social world on one page, Spindex aims to “make sense of your social overload and find out at a glance what topics are hot in your social world.”
Announced by Lili [...]
Microsoft has struck a deal to sponsor The Simpsons on Channel 4 in UK. This move comes as a part of their multi-million pound advertising campaign to promote Microsoft’s search engine Bing.
This is the first time Microsoft has ever sponsored a television program in UK. The deal begins on Thursday evening at 6 PM and [...]
In the business world, the one which leads the distribution sector is the most profitable of all. We all know of the success of Walmart and its distribution chain. Now businesses are moving at a rapid pace towards the Internet. Products and Services are going online and reaching them has become harder than before. The [...]
For a while, we have been following privacy issues concerning unauthorized private data storage by social networking websites like Facebook and Google. Our previous posts have explored various situations where a user privacy is being compromised deliberately by these enterprises.
For your surprise, Facebook alone has 4 full fledged data centers up and running 24 [...]
A BusinessWeek report recent published suggests that the Nexus One release marks the latest volley in an escalating war between Google and Apple. This war could force Apple to form an allegiance with Microsoft in order to counter Google.
With Nexus One, Google, which had been content to power multiple phonemakers’ devices with Android, enters the hardware [...]
After Facebook and Google, its Microsoft that has entered the market of URL shortening. It has launched binged.it, which is (to my surprise) longer than its Search Engine URL bing.com.
Binged.it is not yet public and is currently available only for internal use. According to SeattlePi, Microsoft is collaborating with Bit.ly on the URL Shortener. The blog [...]
Are your binging or googling? The year has been the fierce battle between Google and Bing. Microsoft was clever enough to take Yahoo aside by settling a deal over the search ads and search engine. But when all the brands were considered for their image value, Under Consideration ranked Bing as the top worst identity of 2009.
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When WolframAlpha was released everyone thought it was the next big thing, which sadly didn’t turn out so. There was a very short span of attention from people. It was very clear from start that WolframAlpha had a specific audience with enough knowledge on mathematics. But the computational power of the WolframAlpha could not be ignored. Wolfram has [...]