Archive of the Category 'Bing'

Bing Continues to Expand with New Features

Wednesday, den 9. June 2010

Well as Reported in an earlier blog post this week (thanks Dave) Bing Cashback is soon to be no more!! Lets all take a moment to wipe away a tear!!!…….but wait, all is not lost; Looks like Bing are preparing all kinds of fun for us to soften the blow! Lets have a look shall [...]

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Bing End Cashback Promotion

Monday, den 7. June 2010

When Bing first launched in America, they released it with a feature called “Cashback”. This allowed users to signup and get money back when they buy things online that they have sourced from Bing. On Friday, Microsoft announced that they will no longer be running the Cashback feature. Many people saw this as an attempt [...]

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Bing Announce New Features for Spring

Friday, den 26. March 2010

Yesterday at SES New York, Bing announced a host of new features including a new box which will come up in search results which will include videos, pictures, maps and more. See below for a quote from the Bing Blog: “To start we wanted to focus on doing more to help users with the tasks [...]

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The BBC’s ‘Visual Graphic’ of the Top 100 Sites

Friday, den 12. March 2010

As part of their ‘Superpower’ season, the BBC have created an ‘Interactive Graphic’ showing the internet’s top 100 websites in terms of monthly traffic, as measured by Nielson. The data has been segemented by industry, and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia. To view this extremely useful and interesting [...]

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Motorola replace Google with Bing for Chinese Android-based phones

Thursday, den 11. March 2010

TechCrunch have reported that Motorola are to replace Google with Bing on the new Android mobile phone in China, following Google’s recent developments in China.  TechCrunch says: “If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now. Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese [...]

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Bing launches new UK TV ad…

Thursday, den 11. March 2010

This week saw Bing launch its first UK TV ad campaign under the tagline ‘Bing and decide’.  The campaign aims to show how Bing simplifies the ‘information overload’ that accompanies the results of many searches. Personally I’m not really a fan of the ad.  I know Bing are trying to encourage people to remember that [...]

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Microsoft / Yahoo Deal Approved

Friday, den 19. February 2010

The European Commision and US Department of Justice have approved Microsoft’s plans to buy Yahoo’s internet search and search advertising business. The EC said the ten-year deal, which will see Yahoo’s search service powered by Microsoft’s Bing, “wouldn’t significantly impede effective competition”. NMA Had this to say: “The deal was struck by the two companies [...]

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Google to be Replaced by Bing as Iphone’s Search Engine

Wednesday, den 20. January 2010

Business Week are today reporting that Apple are currently in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine for Iphone users, replacing the current search engine giant Google.  These talks come amid the hot competition between Apple and Google. “The discussions reflect  the accelerating rivalry between Apple and Google, now the main provider [...]

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Bing and Google up the Stakes on Health Results

Thursday, den 14. January 2010

Clever or Crazy? This post is dedicated to all my hypochondriac friends; We’ve all been there, it starts as a curious interest about an unusual symptom and just like that, you’ve self diagnosed yourself on the NHS website and only have a week to live. Well, in the name of quick information at our fingertips, [...]

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Bing Officially Launches in the UK

Tuesday, den 17. November 2009

Microsoft has launched the first elements of its much-anticipated UK marketing campaign for Bing after its fledgling search engine finally moved out of beta overnight. Bing is to sponsor X Factor coverage on Global Radio stations including Capital FM and Galaxy, and has launched a competition to win worldwide holidays with Thomas Cook. Online activity [...]

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