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Bing Travel Arrives

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jun 5th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Microsoft this morning announced that it is rolling out Bing Travel, one of the verticals it’s focusing much of its attention on when it comes to the recently unveiled “decision engine” the company set out to conquer market share from Google and Yahoo Search. Bing Travel, as we mentioned when we posted the first screenshots [...]



Bing: Is That an Acronym for “Bing Is Not Google”?

By Sharafat • Jun 1st, 2009 • Category: Technology

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing — which debuted at our D7 conference last week — unexpectedly went live this morning ahead of its scheduled June 3 launch date and it’s already done much to distinguish itself from Microsoft’s previous efforts in search. Certainly there’s far more verb potential in Bing than “Microsoft Live Search,” the [...]



Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected

By Sumaira Bajwa • May 30th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off Bing, the rebranded and rebuilt search engine formerly code-named Kumo, designed to replace Live Search. It’s a solid improvement over the previous search product, and it beats Google in important areas. It will help Microsoft gain share in the search business. It’s surprisingly competitive with Google.
Bing isn’t available [...]