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Robert Pattinson: Twilight Star Doesn't Know What Bing Is (VIDEO)

Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology


Robert Pattinson, the English actor who stars in the vampire movie series Twilight, greeted fans on the red carpet at the film's premiere in Westwood ...

Bing Jingle: Kids Perform Microsoft Song In School (VIDEO)

techcrunch.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology


As you can see in the video below, Microsoft has forced a bunch of middle schoolers in Pennsylvania to learn and perform Mann's Bing song. The horror....

Bing Vampire Ad: Creepy, Twilight-Inspired Commercial Debuts (VIDEO)

Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology


Bing has launched a new commercial that's anything but ordinary for a search engine: the ad, promoting Microsoft's "decision engine," features vampire...

Google Versus Google -- Will Social Search Tear the Company Apart?

Noah Mallin | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business


Noah Mallin

Google announced with great fanfare that they were incorporating results from social media sites like Twitter into their search pages last week. So did their search rival, Bing.

Google, Twitter, and Facebook Have Three Ways to Skin a Cat

Noah Mallin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business


Noah Mallin

Google's biggest advantage is that they have tons of cash; Twitter's advantage lies in its simplicity; and Facebook's advantage is its huge and growing user base of over 300 million people.

Bing Deal: Microsoft Strikes Deal With Twitter, Facebook To Integrate Status Updates In Search Results

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 10.21.2009 | Technology


SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. has picked up a new weapon in its Internet search duel with Google – full access to Twitter's communicatio...

Twitter Negotiating Data Deals With Google, Microsoft

AllThingsD | Posted 10.08.2009 | Technology


Is there gold in them thar tweets? Maybe so, because--according to sources familiar with the situation--Twitter is in advanced talks with Microsoft...

Search as Dialog

Jan Pedersen | Posted 09.22.2009 | Technology


Jan Pedersen

We see Bing as the first step in this long process of transforming search from something which often points you somewhere else to try and find your answer.

Search Wars -- With Bing, Twitter and Facebook, There's More to Searching Google

Danny Sullivan | Posted 09.22.2009 | Technology


Danny Sullivan

It's easy to assume that when it comes to search, there's Google and nothing else. That was never the case.

Google Better Than Bing, Yahoo Study Finds

InformationWeek | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology


A group of 1,100 software testers has rated Google the best search engine in terms of accuracy, speed, and relevance. ...

Bing Gains Modest Ground On Google, Yahoo In July

AP | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Bing, Media News

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp.'s souped-up Internet search engine gained a little more ground on industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in...

Bing Jingle Contest Winner: 'Bing Goes The Internet' (VIDEO)

Posted 09.06.2009 | Business


Bing has finally announced the winner of its jingle contest -- hat tip to TechCrunch, who called it "the worst jingle ever." And the winner is..."Bing...

Stephen Bing, Wealthy Hollywood Producer, Paid For Clinton N Korea Flight (SLIDESHOW)

AP | PAMELA HESS and SHARON THEIMER | Posted 09.05.2009 | World


WASHINGTON (AP) — A wealthy Hollywood producer and a major corporation paid for the flight that carried former President Bill Clinton and two Am...

How Bing and Twitter Can Save Journalism

Maegan Carberry | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media


Maegan Carberry

The emergence of Bing and Twitter mark the first formidable competitors to Google, which until now has monopolized the market on search, and thus the diversity of thought in journalism's Internet era.

Microsoft-Yahoo Deal: Can They Take On Google?

nytimes.com | STEVE LOHR | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business


The bumpy, marathon mating dance between Microsoft and Yahoo finally concluded on Wednesday, when the two companies announced a partnership in Interne...

Is Bing Good for Bing?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

It's just possible, in short, that in the end I may well be the last Bing standing. Time will tell.

Bing Tops Twitter, Digg, CNN In First Month

Business Insider | Preethi Dumpala|Jul. 9, 2009, 9:37 AM|5 | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media


Bing is now the thirteenth most visited site on the Web. It has a long way to go before it beats Google and has yet to overtake Yahoo, but since its ...

Bing Vs. Google: Microsoft's Search Engine Often Better

nytimes.com | DAVID POGUE | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business


For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, "Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it."...

Study: Microsoft Bing Is Better for Ads Than Google

Nicholas Carlson | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media


Nicholas Carlson

Sponsored links attract about 80% more attention on Bing than they do on Google, a new eye-tracking study from consulting firm User Centric shows.

Google's Android to Run on Acer Netbooks

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media


Shelly Palmer

Acer is set to be the first PC manufacturer to package its netbooks with Google's Android operating system. One of the finest selling points about Google's OS is that its free.

Disrespecting the Bing

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business


Eric Dezenhall

Pepsi annexed graphic elements of the Obama campaign's logo. Mario Lavandeira lifted the name of an exhibitionist heiress, gave it a Latino twist, and emerged with staggering success. The appropriation of brands is epidemic, and the Internet is only making it worse.

Release 0.9: Parsing Microsoft's Bing

Esther Dyson | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media


Esther Dyson

Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, is like turning on the light and tidying things up a bit so you can find what you're looking for on the Web, nicely arranged in transparent data drawers.

WATCH: Steve Ballmer Unveils 'Bing' Microsoft's New Search Engine

wsj.com | JESSICA HODGSON | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business


CARLSBAD, Calif.--Microsoft Corp. Thursday unveiled a major overhaul to its Internet search engine, as it enters a new chapter in its rivalry with Goo...

BingCo. Announces Plan to Pay Back Debt (By Issuing More Debt)

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I plan to sell an undesignated amount of stock in my formerly privately held BingCo., and also plan a note sale to help repay funds I have borrowed from various sources.

In Which I Come Face-to-Face with the American Investor

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Is it possible, that at some time in the future, the welfare of the companies we serve could be divorced from the fear, the greed, the feral hysteria of the securities marketplace?