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Apps for Autism: Results from a Bing Fund hackathon

Last week we told you about a weekend hackathon, organized by Microsoft’s Bing Fund and community partners, that brought together developers,… Read More

Microsoft’s Windows Phone getting faster speech input

One of the difficult parts about shifting from iPhone to Windows Phone has been giving up the (near) real-time speech… Read More

3 ways to enhance your State of the Union viewing experience

President Barack Obama will deliver his fourth State of the Union address tonight at 6 p.m PST with Apple CEO… Read More

The San Francisco 49ers are trouncing the Baltimore Ravens … on Microsoft Bing

If the number of Bing searches correlates with winning football games, then 49ers fans have reason to be ecstatic. Bing… Read More

Bing beefs up social sidebar with more Facebook content

Just two days after landing a big partnership with Facebook’s new Graph Search, Bing today announced more robust Facebook integration… Read More

Big win for Microsoft: Facebook partnering with Bing for “Graph Search”

While employees at Google may be worried about Facebook’s latest move, the Bing people over at Microsoft are pumping their… Read More

Ho, ho, Bing: NORAD Tracks Santa switching from Google to Microsoft

Looks like Google was being a little naughty this year. The NORAD Santa Tracker has followed Santa Claus on his annual journey… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘Don’t get Scroogled’ campaign warns users about Google shopping ads

Microsoft is attacking Google’s new shopping advertising model and they’ve even created a new word and website to prove it.… Read More

Breaking down borders: Bing translator app now available for Windows Phone 8

Whether or not Microsoft is poised to lead the way in the tablet, video game and search engine arenas is… Read More

Microsoft’s data proves it: We’re obsessed with iPhone

Tim Cook might want to send a thank you card to Steve Ballmer this morning. It should read like this:… Read More

Google redesigns search results interface: What do you think?

There’s a big change happening to the Google web search functionality and some of the response so far hasn’t been… Read More

Klout investment just the latest social deal for Microsoft

OK, so this is officially a trend. With the announcement yesterday that Microsoft will make a “strategic investment” in social… Read More

Microsoft Bing takes a chip out of Google’s giant lead

[Update: comScore changed its methods for collecting data in August, making the month-over-month comparisons invalid. The biggest change is in… Read More

‘Bing it On’: Microsoft takes on Google in blind tests

Microsoft’s underdog search engine, Bing, is launching the equivalent of a blind taste test for the search industry today, inviting… Read More

Microsoft Bing launches Facebook photo search tool

Microsoft’s Bing search engine today rolled out the latest in a series of Facebook-related features, launching a tool for quickly searching… Read More

Microsoft Bing adds Quora answers to its social sidebar

Microsoft is adding content from top contributors on the Quora question-and-answer site to the “social sidebar” on its Bing search results pages,… Read More

Bing Fund opens doors for Buddy Platform and Pinion Tech

Microsoft surprised us last month when word spread of its Bing Fund, a new angel investment fund and startup incubator… Read More

Q&A: How Bing is using your friends to challenge Google

Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show and podcast was Stefan Weitz from Microsoft Bing. He gave us a broad update on… Read More

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Podcast: Amazon, Microsoft, and how search is going social

Can your Facebook friends really help you find better information on the web? That’s one of the questions we explore… Read More

How Microsoft’s new Bing Fund will invest in startups

Microsoft today confirmed that it has created a new angel investment fund and startup incubator sponsored by its Bing search… Read More

After the writedown: How Microsoft squandered its $6.3B buy of ad giant aQuantive

It was supposed to change everything for Microsoft, creating a viable rival to Google and establishing the Redmond company as a… Read More

Microsoft integrating Yelp data into Bing local search

Microsoft Bing announced a deal this morning with Yelp to incorporate information from the business search and review service into… Read More

Search: Google boosts lead vs. Microsoft and Yahoo

New numbers from comScore Networks show Google pulling further ahead of Microsoft Bing and Yahoo in the U.S. search market… Read More

Microsoft exec: Bing as good or better than Google, but users still don’t believe it

Microsoft’s internal testing shows that Bing’s search results are quantifiably as relevant or, in some cases, more relevant than those… Read More

Facebook, Twitter and friends reshaping search, but Google still rules the roost

Google and Microsoft Bing will be hot topics in Seattle this week, as people from around the search industry huddle… Read More

Microsoft tops Google’s list of copyright removal requests

Microsoft is more active than any other company in asking Google to remove from its index websites that infringe on… Read More

Microsoft overhauls Bing with new ‘social sidebar,’ deepens Facebook ties

Microsoft today previewed a new version of its Bing search engine, with elements including a “social sidebar” that lets users quickly… Read More

Microsoft investigated Bing GM’s ties to handbag company

When Microsoft Bing marketing general manager Danielle Tiedt was hired by YouTube in February, Microsoft took the unusual step of… Read More

Anatomy of a news story: How Bing and Google performed when Steve Jobs resigned

A new study out today from Seattle-based Optify attempts to get behind the scenes on how Bing and Google operate… Read More

Search by sketch: Microsoft seeks patent on ‘MindFinder’

It’s a little like playing Pictionary with a search engine — drawing a sketch and seeing if the algorithm can… Read More