Tag: "Bing"
Bingbot replacing MSNbot in October
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Over the last couple month the Bing web team has been busy refining and rolling our improvements to their web crawling software that indexes website on Bing.com On October 1st 2010, MSNbot will cease to crawl and will be replaced by Bingbot. This will show in your server logs as: bingbot/2.0 The HTTP header From [...]
Bing donating money to BP oil spill via Twitter
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Bing is setting aside $100,000 USD to donate to help clean up the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This effort is being lead through Twitter. Bing has said if you Re-Tweet (RT) the following: Retweet this & @Bing will donate $10 to @CNN’s Gulf Telethon up to $100K. More at http://bit.ly/howtodonate. #BingforGulf [...]
Microsoft to update Bing entertainment search results
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Microsoft is planning to improve the search results on Bing in relation to searches about music, television shows, movies and games. Senior Vice president of Microsoft’s Online Audience Business, Yusuf Mehdi, will be giving exact details during a press conference in West Hollywood, California on Tuesday 22nd June. TV show search results such as local [...]
Bing added to Opera Browser
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Microsoft has completed a deal with rival internet browser Opera, making Bing one of the default search engines in the browser search field. If you want to download the latest version of Opera 10.60 Beta goto: http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ Google will still remain as the Default search, but getting Bing infront of Opera users is a good [...]
Foursquare has 60,000 users in Sydney, Business Survey
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It is now estimated that there are 60,000 people in Sydney using the Geo-location mobile service – Foursquare. A recent survey of local businesses using Foursquare has generated some interesting responses. Only 10% of businesses using Foursquare said they would be willing to pay for the service. This is an alarming rate, especially considering Foursquare [...]
Microsoft adds new social search feature to Bing
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Microsoft has added a new social search feature to the Bing search engine allowing users to see the trending topcis on Facebook and Twitter. You are able to access the Bing social search at the following link www.bing.com/social No doubt there will be a lot of trending tweets about Justin Bieber Microsoft Senior Vice President [...]
Google says Microsoft is clever, smart and well funded
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It is clear as crystal the battle between Google and Microsoft (with Apple in there too) in one of the internets great rivalries. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has made comments on Microsoft’s entrance to the search market saying the software giant is ‘well-funded, smart and clever’. Google holds a high majority of the search market [...]
Apple World Wide Developer Conference recap
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Steve Jobs has highlighted about the new iPhone 4 to be released in Australia around July. Nothing else was mentioned on Day 1 at the Apple Apple World Wide Developer Conference. Below is a summary of changes for the iPhone 4. Hardware upgrades – 5MP camera – LED flash next to camera lens – tap [...]
Apple Safari 5 browser showcased at Apple Developers Conference
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Apple Safari version 5 will be showcased at the Apple Developers Conference in California USA. Already receiving praise for being one of the fastest browsers on the net, Safari 5 comes with a number of improvements over the previous version. 1. Safari Reader A new browser based RSS reader called Safari Reader becomes part of [...]
Google adds Bing like picture to search page
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We all know Google has the plain white search page and often changing Google logo. In a recent blog post Google is giving users the option to change their background logo on the search page which can be uploaded from the users computer or Picasa Web album. This allows the Google homepage to somewhat resemble [...]
Apple World-wide Developers Conference June 7
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So the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is on June 7 hosted in San Jose, California – USA. We know Steve Jobs will most probably be focusing on the new iPhone 4G and as to when the OS4.0 will be available to all other iPhone users. Many are speculating that Steve Jobs may also release [...]
RUMOR: Google search to be replaced with Bing on iPhone
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There have been many rumors amongst tech news publishers that Bing will replace Google as the default search provider on the iPhone once OS4 is rolling out to devices globally. This is kind of expected especially considering that Google’s Android has been stealing market share from the iPhone over the last several months. Apple apparently [...]
Search Engine rankings – April
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As Australian search engine data is not as freely available we look at the US market data courtesy of Neilson company. In April 9.72 billion online searches we run. Google had 65.7% market share at 6.4 billion searches. Yahoo had 13.4% market share at 1.3 billion searches. Microsoft’s Bing had 12.2% market share at 1.2 [...]
Bing mobile app gets turn by turn navigation
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If you use a Windows mobile phone or BlackBerry you can now download the Bing App which features turn by turn navigation on Bing maps. How much? Free. Go to: http://www.discoverbing.com/mobile/learn.html Whats unfortunately however is that Bing still hasn’t reintroduced and iPhone app for the Australian market. Bing originally made their iPhone app available globally, [...]
Bing Maps and Foursquare to integrate
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Microsoft’s search engine Bing plans to add user content from Geo-location social network Foursquare to their maps product. Microsoft said in a blog post that Foursquare “tips” (ie comments) that Foursquare users submit for a restaurant/venue will show up on Bing maps. This is an interesting move by Foursquare and Microsoft. Currently Foursquare uses Google [...]
Bing WorldWide Telescope Application Available
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Last month Bing launched their WorldWide Telescope application that allows you to look at the stars and constellations from Bing Maps. The application shows real time information on how space is moving around Earth. To download the Telescope App go here, click the MAP APPS button at the bottom of the page, then WorldWide Telescope. [...]
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