If you’re traveling on Interstate 5 this Memorial Day Weekend and need directions, Google Maps is going to be your best bet. Why? Well, Google has already updated its map to show Thursday night’s collapse of the 58-year-old bridge spanning the Skagit River. See for yourself at Google Maps. You’ll notice that there’s a big gap… Read More…
If you’re a Star Trek aficionado and have a few minutes to burn today at work, Bing is the place to go. To enable Star Trek madness, just type in “Beam Me Up” on the Bing search browser. I don’t want to ruin the fun, but after being transported into space, you’ll see the USS Enterprise…. Read More…
That headline is Klingon for “Microsoft Bing launches Klingon language translator.” We know this because we’ve been having fun — perhaps a little too much fun — with the Redmond company’s latest creation, an homage to Star Trek that launched today as a new feature of the Microsoft Bing Translator. The Klingon feature was developed… Read More…
Microsoft’s search advertising group says it’s starting to wring more revenue out of the Internet search ads that it’s serving as part of its partnership with Yahoo — despite recently needing to extend, for another year, its commitment to cover revenue shortfalls experienced by Yahoo under the arrangement. The news follows a report by the Wall Street… Read More…
Social media metrics company Klout is making a move into the social question-and-answer space and is getting some distribution help from Bing to make it happen. Klout, a platform which measures your social media influence, today introduced Klout Experts. Here’s how it works: Klout “experts,” or those who have heavy influence in certain areas like technology and food,… Read More…
Microsoft has finally responded to a study claiming that Bing’s search results delivered five times as much malware than Google’s, and its answer is simple: the study is flawed. Last week, AV-TEST conducted a malware study that analyzed millions of websites and found that Bing was showing much more malware to users than its more popular… Read More…
Those of you still pissed that Google Reader is going away may like the latest updates to Bing’s News App for Windows 8. Microsoft today announced several updates across its Bing Apps from News to Sports to Maps. Bing News now offers support for RSS feeds as well as offline reading. You’re also able to keep tabs… Read More…
The monthly U.S. search stats from comScore are out for March and it shows Google slipping just a bit with Microsoft continuing to grow its search share, albeit slowly. Google dropped 0.4 percentage points last month, falling to 67.1 percent of the U.S. search engine market. Microsoft, meanwhile, grew 0.2 percentage points to 16.9. That’s… Read More…
Bing is making “Pinning” to Pinterest easy. Today the Microsoft search engine introduced a “Pin to Pinterest” feature that allows users to pin images straight from Bing to their Pinterest boards. The goal is to save people time and remove the need for extra bookmarklets in the browser. The inspiration for Microsoft came when they invited… Read More…
Last week we told you about a weekend hackathon, organized by Microsoft’s Bing Fund and community partners, that brought together developers, designers and other experts to come up with technologies to address issues related to autism. So what did they come up with? A lot. The teams worked on 13 prototypes in all, addressing a range of issues faced… Read More…
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