Bing program manager Kassy Coan gives Microsoft’s fascination with “the cloud” a whole new meaning. When she is not working on Bing’s up-and-coming features, Coan finds herself absorbed in her passion for aviation.… Read More
Unlike web pages, the contents and capabilities of apps are usually hidden away from a search engine’s web crawlers, not accessible to searchers or potential users. Now, Microsoft’s Bing search engine wants to give… Read More
Microsoft announced today that it will begin using mobile friendliness as a signal in Bing’s search ranking algorithm for results that are requested from a mobile device. It’s a move… Read More
Microsoft has nabbed search share from Google and Yahoo to grab a fifth of the total desktop web search market in the U.S., according to a report released by ComScore… Read More
Yahoo and Microsoft may be modifying an agreement that has tied the fates of the two companies together for the past five years. Yahoo revealed in a regulatory filing today that the… Read More
A confidential report prepared by staffers at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission found that Google took product rankings from Amazon and other companies like Yelp and TripAdvisor to improve its… Read More
Microsoft Bing already used its algorithms to predict outcomes of events like the 2015 Academy Awards and last month’s Super Bowl. But the search engine’s newest prediction engine may be its most robust to date. As we… Read More
Let the Madness begin. The field for the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament field was set yesterday on “Selection Sunday,” marking the start of what’s sure to be another exciting month… Read More
Bing wants to help you win your March Madness bracket pool. The Microsoft search engine announced today that it is the NCAA’s “official bracket data partner” this year as the nation’s… Read More
Yahoo’s deal with Mozilla to become the default search provider for U.S. Firefox users has paid off. The company handled almost 11 percent of all U.S. search referrals in January, the… Read More
Twitter announced today that users can once again translate tweets made in foreign languages using Microsoft’s Bing Translator technology. Now, when a tweet in a foreign language shows up in… Read More
Yahoo’s decision to become the default search provider for Firefox has paid off in spades. According to new data released by StatCounter, the search firm has achieved its highest search… Read More
C’mon, Bing — where’s the love for your hometown football team? Microsoft’s search engine just laid out some predictions for 2015 using its algorithms that have already fared well in picking… Read More
Facebook is no longer providing results from Microsoft Bing when users conduct searches on the social network, part of a broader change in Facebook’s approach to search. Following an update that rolled out earlier this week, searches… Read More
Microsoft has enhanced its new Sway web-based presentation tool with the ability to directly add content from a Bing image search into a Sway document. Users search for whatever they want… Read More
Microsoft announced today that its Bing Pulse real-time audience response tool is now available for anyone to use. The service, which has been in use for the past two years,… Read More
Bing today posted its most-searched lists of the year, and 2014 was all about the iPhone 6, the Seattle Seahawks, and Kim Kardashian’s butt. One year after being dethroned by Beyonce, Kardashian —… Read More
Microsoft Office users looking for exactly the right piece of clip art to accent their presentation or document can now turn straight to the internet from their work, thanks to… Read More
The European Union’s “right to be forgotten” may be going global, if a set of regulators have their way. A group representing the 28 member nations’ privacy regulators met in… Read More
In a massive shift, Mozilla has signed a five-year partnership with Yahoo to be the default search provider for Firefox users in the U.S. The new agreement unseats Google as… Read More
Foursquare has finally released a new app for Windows Phone, nine months after Microsoft invested in the New York-based startup. This summer, Foursquare split its original app into two: Swarm provided… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — Speaking this morning at a “Bing Ads Next” event, Microsoft VP Rik van der Kooi talked about the company’s ongoing efforts to take the concept of search into… Read More
As November approaches quickly, Microsoft Bing today launched a new election portal that aims to help inform citizens of issues and predict results. At Bing.com/election, you’ll now find a bevy of… Read More
It might be easy to dismiss Microsoft’s MSN as a relic of the dial-up Internet era, but with 425 million monthly users, the portal remains a major destination on the web and a… Read More
One of the great annoyances of using a mobile device to search the web has been encountering websites in foreign languages. After all, it’s easy enough to copy and paste… Read More
Need help picking teams each week for your NFL pool? Microsoft Bing’s prediction engine is here to help. The Redmond company, which was nearly flawless at picking the winners during the World Cup… Read More
MSN.com is getting a makeover. Microsoft’s new-look news hub, which you can check out in beta mode at preview.msn.com, was built “from the ground up for a mobile-first, cloud-first world”… Read More
If Microsoft Bing’s prediction engine is as good at predicting NFL games as it was picking World Cup match winners, well, expect a Seahawks victory over Green Bay tomorrow evening. The Redmond… Read More
Bing is getting conversational. Microsoft’s search engine today rolled out a new feature that remembers what you last searched for and offers related follow-up answers. For example, if you search… Read More
Yelp announced today that it will use Microsoft Bing to translate reviews on its iPhone app. Thanks to Microsoft’s Bing Translator, Yelp will translate either one review, or all reviews, with… Read More