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This continues the trend of Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo simply swapping search share rather than making inroads on Google’s massive search share. When looking at the 20 billion search queries conducted in May specifically, Google remained static...
The PRISM archive collects and stores data from multiple companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, AOL, and Skype, according to reports. Microsoft: Google cares deeply about the security of our users' data.
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. You can't help but think this sounds a lot like the integrated...
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. The tool will currently ping both Bing and Google whenever the sitemaps are updated.
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. While Google is still the huge powerhouse when it comes to search market share in the...
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. Google's Mobile Search Moments research reported that 73 percent of mobile searches trigger additional action and...
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. Just like Google's algorithm, some of the factors carry a lot of weight...
However, Microsoft wants the market share that Yahoo provides and they don’t want to potentially lose the deal to another search provider – namely Google. Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their revenue-per-search guarantee for one year, an...
We are also seeing a shift that we hope will be adopted across internet companies more broadly: two Internet companies — Google and Microsoft — have published figures regarding National Security Letters, secretive government demands for user...
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...
Microsoft decided to let Bing Ads users import their Google AdWords accounts directly into Bing Ads. Microsoft had the resources to challenge Google and thankfully for all of us, they did. It was one of those moments in time I bet many Microsoft...
February), followed by Microsoft sites with 3.4 billion (up 13 percent), Yahoo sites with 2.4 billion (up 14 percent), Ask Network with 540 million (up 14 percent), and finally AOL with 321 million (up 5 percent).
