SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ā Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long-sought and expensive goal ā its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google ...
Recently I attended the one-year anniversary of House of Genius. Not surprisingly, I wasn't invited because I'm a genius, but to offer me an opportun...
Social media is no longer just a buzzword, but really a part of daily life. Now the new thing is a play on the old one, "You've got Klout." Or do you? Or do you have Peerindex? Do you know your grade on Grader? Do you know what your Kred is?
Microsoft and Mozilla have teamed up to create a new browsing option: A version of the popular Firefox browser will be available for download with Bin...
LAST month, Google introduced the first version of its new flight search feature (Google.com/flights) and the response has mostly focused on what it d...
WASHINGTON -- You can't swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google ...
Google announced on Thursday that it has added a weather layer to its popular Google Maps tool, allowing users to instantly see current temperatures a...
Microsoft's search engine, Bing, announced on Wednesday that the company's mapping service has added floor plans for about 400 shopping malls to the B...
Is there viable competition anywhere to Google? Let's forget about the poor Microsoft shareholders and ask what the fact that Bing only exists due to massive subsidies says about the health of competition in search.
We have all seen the commercial. "I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis." He's called the most interesting man in the world. Bu...
Day 1 of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. The keynote was interesting both for what it said as well as what it did not say:
No mention of S...
Most people think about search as a simple series of actions: type in a phrase, cross your fingers it brings up what you need, and then click around a...
Should search be social? Microsoft's Bing says yes and is introducing a new feature that will bring more information from your Facebook friends into y...
This Is My Next's Joshua Topolsky reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just took the stage at the BlackBerry World Conference to announce a new Bi...
Google's acquisition of ITA should be blocked, as should all attempts at vertical integration by a search engine provider into comparison-based businesses or into any direct retailing-based businesses.
We believe that search engines should be forbidden to engage in vertical integration into comparison of goods and services, or into direct sale of goods and services.