Tag: BING

Share With all the focus on the new iPad, Bill Gates may need to let loose once in a while -- hence his boogieing till the wee hours during a Bing-sponsored blowout at the Sundance Film Festival. According to a "spy" for the New York Post's Page Six, the Microsoft founder-cum-compulsive philanthropist was seen "gyrating" in a VIP booth till 2 a.m. during a performance by John Legend and the ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Call it BlackBerry Friday. Beginning today, all AT&T BlackBerrys with a two-year contract will be 50-percent off after a mail-in-rebate. [From: Techland] According to a MySpace page where celebrities reveal what's on their iPods, the Pope likes to get down with some Tupac, specifically the track "Changes." Can we now expect a ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... It looks like we might actually be spared from that stupid 3G map battle currently being waged between AT&T and Verizon. Apparently the two companies have realized that we're not all complete morons, so they've both dropped several ongoing law suits related to who can claim the "most reliable" network. [From: Engadget] ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Rumors that Hulu may start charging for content have elicited negative responses from many of the site's loyal viewers, but new additions may actually make the content worth a monthly subscription fee. The site is expected to announce today that it will introduce music channels, beginning with one devoted to singer Norah Jones ...

Yesterday, both Bing and Google announced that they had respectively struck deals to index the 140-character bits of information found on Twitter and compile them in real-time search results. Twitter currently has its own tool for searching Tweets, but results are organized by chronology. Bing and Google will be applying algorithms to ensure users get the most relevant and trusted results, ...

Google is just about everyone's go-to search engine. Hell, it's the only search engine whose name has become a verb. (We don't foresee anyone "Binging" anything anytime soon.) But we wonder: Is Google really the search engine for you? Enter a search query at Blind Search, and you'll be presented with three different sets of results in unlabeled columns (each one is a different search engine). ...

In a move to compete with Google, lesser search providers Yahoo! and Microsoft yesterday inked a 10-year agreement to combine their search powers. Microsoft's Bing, the Redmond-based company's latest foray into the search market, will be powering Yahoo!'s search engine, and, in turn, Yahoo! will sell ads. The combined companies' research-and-development teams might actually make a legitimate ...

Microsoft's new search engine Bing (the "decision engine") debuted to generally positive reviews -- the venerable David Pogue at the New York Times even claims that Bing out-googles Google in some ways. Similarly, Bing seems to be excelling on the traffic front; new numbers suggest the search site is outperforming some of the Web's most popular sites. According to traffic-tracking firm Compete's ...

Just this week, Microsoft introduced Bing, a new search engine, to the world. Despite some positive reviews, the Google competitor is already stirring up controversy. It turns out that, with just a few simple clicks in the site's security settings, videos can be previewed from within Bing's search results. So, what's all the hoopla about? Any video can be played, which means pornography can be ...