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Google Makeover Is a Catch-Up Step in the Right Direction

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Penny Herscher

Google is late in providing its enhanced layout and more sophisticated tools. Much of what the company announced is already standard design for Bing, and is common in many professional search based applications.

Will the Googleplex Become a Person?

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Craig Newmark

At some point, the Googleplex and its competitors, to compete better, might become adaptive, learning from experience on their own. That might trigger self-awareness.

Thank Google! For Remembering

Linda Bergthold | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Linda Bergthold

So while we wrestle with our short term memory loss, science is not going to be helping us any time soon. But thank Google! It will.

Blogging for Rookies

Grant Cardone | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Grant Cardone

I have to admit I am an amateur when it comes to blogging, SEO, and this new world of social networking. Regardless of that fact, I have successfully ...

A New Entertainment Experience for Bing

Yusuf Mehdi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Yusuf Mehdi

In this release of Bing one of the biggest investments we are making is in the area of entertainment. As the content on the web has exploded, it has b...

Stephen Colbert, Bing Raise Money For Gulf Coast Cleanup

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

On Monday's episode of his show "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert raised $150,000 for the Gulf oil spill cleanup, thanks to a sponsorship by Micro...

Google's China Misadventure: Not a Harbinger of Darkness

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Tom Doctoroff

A headline in today's Washington Post asserts: "Google's showdown marks turning point in bond between West and Beijing's authoritarian system." Please. Let's not get overexcited.

Troll Patrol - 5 Things You Can Do

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Alan W. Silberberg

Trolling is a growing problem online and especially in social media spaces. It clogs up our email boxes, confuses the follower/following counts and throws monkey wrenches into people actively building engaged online communities. I have created my own types based on behavior I have seen.

Bad News for Google: Search Share Gains Have Flatlined

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Henry Blodget

From a financial perspective, Google is still a one-product company (search). But now, in the biggest and most important market on earth (responsible for almost half of Google's revenue), Google's share gains have flatlined.

The biggest threat to Google might be your friends

Kevin Grandia and Tim Kolke | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Kevin Grandia and Tim Kolke

Finding good information on the web can be pretty frustrating. Google, of course, has made this a lot easier but even then you regularly find that s...

Critical Thinking, Howard Rheingold and Cancer at the NCCE conference

Betsy Aoki | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Betsy Aoki

Internet literacy issues aren't new, but the goal of the Northwest Council for Computer Education's conference is to help teachers on the front lines and raise awareness of the issue.

Microsoft 'Takes On Goliath' With Bing TV Ads Mocking Google

guardian.co.uk | Mark Sweney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Microsoft's 'Bing and decide' campaign, starting on television this week, attacks 'information overload' of rival's results...

Bing BLOCKS Online Sex Searches In Middle East, Study Says

breitbart.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

The Open Net Initiative (ONI) on Friday said Microsoft's search engine Bing is more prudish than government censors when it comes to sex-related onlin...

What Your Search Engine Says About You

switched.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

What does your search engine say about you? Well, if you believe a new study from a group of marketing agencies, it says a lot. A group that included ...

Critical Thinking and Bing

Betsy Aoki | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Betsy Aoki

If Bing does its job, people move on from our search engine pages into the Web site content that we don't control, and the final reckoning about whether they trust this information still lies before them.

Google in China

Greg Selkoe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Greg Selkoe

As many of you have heard, Google is considering leaving the Chinese market. Yes, that's right; they would leave behind 1 billion plus people in the b...

Grow up Google

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Diane Francis

It's somewhat amusing that Google and its two American competitors have collaborated with the Great Internet Fire Wall ll the way up to about 40% market share.

Verizon Cutting Off Internet for File Sharing Offenders : MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer January 21, 2010

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Shelly Palmer

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Bing On iPhone: Apple, Microsoft In Talks To Make Bing iPhone Search Default

BusinessWeek | Peter Burrows and Cliff Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Apple (AAPL) is in talks with Microsoft (MSFT) to replace Google (GOOG) as the default search engine on its iPhone, according to two people familiar w...

Bing Name BATTLE: Design Firm Sues Microsoft Over Bing Trademark

Ars Technica | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

A small St. Louis company is suing Microsoft for using the name "Bing" without permission for its recently launched search engine. Bing! Information D...

Google's 'First Click Free' Will Allow Newspapers To Limit Access To Stories

AP | JANE WARDELL and ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

LONDON — In a move that could help improve relations between Google Inc. and the media industry, the Internet search company is offering publish...

Bing Jingle: Kids Perform Microsoft Song

techcrunch.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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....

Twitter Negotiating Data Deals With Google, Microsoft

AllThingsD | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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...

Bing Vs. Google: Three Ways Bing Is Better

VentureBeat | December 2, 2009 | Paul Boutin | | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

This morning, Microsoft employees demonstrated a long list of enhancements to their Bing search engine at a press event at the company's San Francisco...

Microsoft, News Corp Have Talked About De-Indexing From Google

Financial Times | Matthe Garrahan, Richard Waters, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google...