Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 2:28pm
Microsoft's upstart search engine Bing continues its push to compete with Google in terms of usability and overall cultural impact. The latest effort being a tie-up with the popular Star Trek franchise.
Bing stories
Monday, May 21, 2012 - 10:10am
The last one to the party, Microsoft's So.cl social network is an "experimental research project" that Microsoft tested on research students before quietly opening to all user today. Unlike Facebook and Google+, So.cl is a social network built mainly to push more content through Bing.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 1:11am
Microsoft's Bing search engine is the first serious competitor to Google in over a decade, but now Google says that Bing is copying its own search results, and that the company has run tests that prove it.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 8:58am
Microsoft has figured out a clever way to inject some innovation into its search service, Bing, with a contest called the "King of Bing Maps." It's paying off, as Bing is getting a leg-up on its arch nemesis, Google Maps.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 2:34am
Microsoft just updated its free Bing app for the iPhone, giving iOS users something they've had, but never this easy: the ability to scan a barcode and get an accurate search result. You could take a picture of, say, the barcode on a can of a soft drink or a digital barcode online, and you'd either be taken to a search of the exact product or a specific page.
Friday, June 4, 2010 - 7:38am
Online maps are very handy, but they can be cluttered and confusing, especially in dense cities. Bing's new Destination Maps solve that problem by cutting away all the unnecessary data from where you're trying to get. Even better? It'll draw it for you in a number of truly lovely ways.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 2:07pm
War makes strange bedfellows, indeed. The iPhone's debut back in '07 saw it launch with plenty of Google-fueled functionality built right in. Google seach, Google maps, Gmail — basically all of the great stuff you'd find on an Android-powered phone,...
Friday, December 11, 2009 - 3:57pm
A comment made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt has brought the dominant search engine some negative press, and has some eyes in high places turning toward Microsoft's "decision engine," Bing. In an appearance on CNBC, Schmidt said the following: "If...
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 5:51am
Who doesn't google with Google? Everyone, right? But, if Microsoft has its way, people will be binging more than they google, and they're updating Bing to tempt folks to give it a shot. Here are a few updates that really...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 12:32pm
Story time, kids! Once upon a time (July '08) in a corner of the web far, far away, a search engine named Cuil challenged Google. While claiming to search more pages of the net than anyone else, it was found...
