John Gagnon, Bing Ads Evangelist at Microsoft, jumped into his morning keynote at SES Toronto talking about changing technology and how users are being impacted by it. He goes through some of the projects coming out of Microsoft Research, including...
According to Microsoft internal data from this test period, financial services advertisers with Sitelink Extensions saw an average 23 percent higher CTR than with standard text ads. It covered more than 300 million ad impressions over a 30-day...
The PRISM archive collects and stores data from multiple companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, AOL, and Skype, according to reports. Microsoft: National Security Agency (NSA) has been named in a massive surveillance...
More recent reports indicated Yahoo wants to get out of its 10-year deal with Microsoft. Taking some inspiration from Google, Yahoo's search results have gotten a makeover. Yahoo announced its brand new look today – one that includes a Google-like...
If you have Windows 8, Microsoft says it's going to revolutionize your search experience now that Windows 8.1 is landing. Microsoft has announced new features coming in Windows 8.1. Last summer, Bing introduced a suite of search apps that...
The tool is open source, so you can download both the tool and the source code from the Microsoft Download Center or from the Bing XML Sitemap download page. Bing has been busy in recent days. The search engine has announced that the Bing Sitemap...
Following Google's proposal, the EC handed the changes to Google's rivals including Microsoft to discuss whether the changes should be accepted. If Almunia's comments are anything to go by, it sounds like Microsoft isn't satisfied with Google's...
Google's search market share dropped slightly once again, with Microsoft and Yahoo slightly edging up, according to comScore's April 2013 search engine rankings. Microsoft's Bing saw the biggest increase with a total search market share of 17.3...
GeoFlow was recently released from Microsoft Research. Curtis Wong, a Principal Researcher for Microsoft Research who kicked off the project, explains, “The goal always has been to bring dynamic, interactive data visualization to the business world.
Google's antitrust case was instigated by competitors including Microsoft. UK price comparison firm Foundem has rejected Google's proposed web search concessions. The concessions come following the European Commission's ongoing antitrust...
If you think about it, with the Microsoft Surface or all HP Touchsmart products, most desktops will act like tablets and vice versa. Now with Google AdWords enhanced campaigns heading down the track like a freight train, it's time to reevaluate how...
Yahoo and Microsoft may have just extended their revenue-per-search guarantee, but Yahoo has apparently been trying to escape its 10-year search deal with Microsoft in order to join forces with Google, according to reports.
Facebook and Microsoft have a strong partnership. Microsoft was an early investor in Facebook and Bing has been working closely with Facebook on various social search projects. I gained access to Graph Search on January 17, and have completed an...
Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their revenue-per-search guarantee for one year, an extension of a partnership that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had hinted wouldn't continue when the current one expired March 31.
Microsoft achieved four stars in the report, as did WordPress. We’re thrilled to see a growing number of companies publishing transparency reports, and we especially commend Microsoft and Twitter for publishing their first transparency reports this...
Microsoft revealed a few new logo design concepts during a Design Day presentation in Norway, including a white and gold "boomerang" logo for its Bing search engine: Or you can check out the full 45 minute "Re-Imagining of Microsoft" presentation...
Microsoft beats Google in patent ruling over Xbox technology – the InquirerMicrosoft has won a $1.8 million ruling in the first of two patent lawsuits against Google's Motorola Mobility over the use of its technology in the Xbox console.
Wavvii was founded by former Microsoft employee Adrian Aoun in 2009 and has raised around $2 million in seed funding so far. Google has acquired news summarization start-up Wavii for more than $30 million.
Are these changes significant enough to appease rival companies such as Microsoft? The European Commission is now seeking feedback on Google's cosmetic search result changes that aim to settle a years-long antitrust investigation.
Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic – PCWorldHarvard Business School associate professor Ben Edelman, who is a paid Microsoft consultant, puts out another anti-Google study, this time on flight search, and reports an "85...
