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Google to pay Mozilla almost $300 million per year in search deal to outdo Microsoft and Yahoo

, Dec 22nd 2011 Discuss [14]

AllThingsD has reported that Google will be on track to pay an impressive $300 million per year to Mozilla, for when Google and Mozilla renewed their search royalty deal, earlier this week. This exorbitant amount of money will allow Google to be the default search engine in Mozilla's Firefox web browser. The deal has apparently climbed to this figure, from previous deals, due to Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing search engine, which have provided ample competition, until now. Read The Full Story

Microsoft So.cl official: Study group killer not Facebook killer

, Dec 15th 2011 Discuss [5]

Microsoft has officially unveiled So.cl, and contrary to Facebook-challenger expectations it's a hybrid system pulling together social networking and search and targeted at students. Found at so.cl, the new tool allows "montages of visual web content" including photos, video and text to be constructed and shared for collaborative editing and discussion, as well as "video parties" for real-time conversation. Read The Full Story

Xbox LIVE app turns Windows Phone into 360 remote

, Dec 5th 2011 Discuss [3]

Microsoft's December 6 Xbox 360 Dashboard update will also bring a new smartphone app, Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone, turning your handset into a remote control and info terminal. Bing-powered content search will browse through movies, TV shows, music, games and apps, Microsoft's Major Nelson confirms, all from the smartphone screen, as well as showing your own recent activities. Read The Full Story

That’s just wrong: Mozilla releases Firefox with Bing

, Oct 26th 2011 Discuss [27]

Here's some strange bedfellows: Mozilla and Microsoft. The developers of the open-source favorite have released "Firefox with Bing", a modified version of Firefox 7 that features Microsoft's branded search engine integrated into its services and interface. Current Firefox users who want to "upgrade" their experience can download a Bing add-on that does the same thing. Read The Full Story

Baidu Bing, Baidu Bang: Bing and Baidu announce search deal

, Jul 6th 2011 Discuss [2]

China is notorious for censoring the internet within its boundaries to keep citizens from accessing things that might not meet the questionable moral code of the Chinese government. Google and China have a long running feud but things between Microsoft and China are seemingly smooth. Microsoft is making a big move to raise the awareness of its Bing search engine in the largest internet market with a new deal with the Chinese Baidu search engine. The deal sees no money change hands and Baidu will even keep the revenue generated by ads under the deal. Read The Full Story

Microsoft’s Bing Lasso Beats Apple’s Copy And Paste Feature

, Jul 5th 2011 Discuss [8]

Microsoft released today an update for its Bing for iPad app that introduced the company's own version of copy and paste. The feature is dubbed "Lasso" and is used to automatically copy and paste a free-hand drawn selection of text for search. It replaces Apple's built-in copy and paste method when using the Bing for iPad app. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Bing now default search on BlackBerry: Deep OS integration coming

, May 3rd 2011 Discuss [2]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance on the BlackBerry World 2011 stage today to announce a new partnership with RIM that will see Bing made the default search provider on BlackBerry smartphones moving forward. The search default will only be the first step of the collaboration, however; Bing will be closely integrated into the core BlackBerry OS. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Photosynth Panorama App With Bing Maps Goes iOS Before WP7

, Apr 18th 2011 Discuss [5]

Microsoft seems to be on a roll lately launching apps on iOS prior to its own platform Windows Phone 7. After having recently launched a Bing Maps app for the iPad, Microsoft today unveiled a smart panorama photo stitching app for the iPhone and iPad called Photosynth. The app was previously limited to the Windows desktop environment and online, but made its leap today to mobile devices. Read The Full Story

Google ITA Travel Search Acquisition Approved But Conditions Apply

, Apr 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Google's acquisition of travel software company ITA for $700 million has just been approved today by the U.S. Justice Department after 8 months of deliberation. It was a difficult decision because the acquisition could obliterate competition in the travel search industry. Travel websites such as Kayak and TripAdvisor depend on the ITA software and fear they would lose access to it once Google acquires the company. Luckily for them, the Justice Department has set some conditions in their approval. Read The Full Story

Bing Upgrades With Real-Time Twitter Feed

, Mar 25th 2011 Discuss [3]

Microsoft announced today that its Bing search engine will begin implementing tweets into its news search results as well as integrating more with Facebook. The Bing Team feels that the addition of the social media giants will help users “make more informed decisions in search by surfacing the kind of information you can only get from your friends, often in real-time.” Read The Full Story

Bing grabs second spot in online video

, Mar 23rd 2011 Discuss [2]

Google is still the dominant player in search in the US by a wide margin. Google also serves up more online video views than anyone else thanks to YouTube. The only competition in the search and online video realm trends to come further back in the pack and the number two spot is at times hotly contested. Read The Full Story

Microsoft’s Bing Will Now Give You Daily Deals

, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [1]

Daily deal sites like Groupon, Living Social, and Gilt have exploded in popularity these past few years. Microsoft is hoping to collect all deals from these various sites and organize them for you in a nice little package. They plan to incorporate this service into their Bing search engine so that when users do a local search these deals will show up alongside the results. Read The Full Story
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