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• Article | 11/03/2010 Bing gains again -- should Google worry?

  Microsoft's Bing search engine may still be a bit player in the lucrative online search business dominated by Google, but it's slowly and steadily gai...
• Article | 12/11/2009 Bing now a serious challenger to Google

  Given undistinguished history of Microsoft's late and unlamented Live Search engine, the predecessor to Bing, it's easy to dismiss Redmond as a haples...
• Article | 30/07/2009 The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: questions and answers

  Well, friends, sound the wedding bells: The longest-running courtship in the history of mankind has finally reached its climax. No July Fools' joke he...
• Article | 30/07/2009 Yahoo Search: RIP

  Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo who ...
• Article | 18/06/2009 Bing makes gains, but is Google actually suffering?

  Microsoft is gaining new ground with its freshly rebranded Bing search engine, some recently released data suggests. Bing, the research finds, grew 0....
• Article | 4/06/2009 Microsoft's Bing Ad Claims to End 'Search Overload'

  Microsoft's first commercial for Bing, the company's recently rebranded search engine, is officially out in the wild. The inaugural Bing ad focuses on...
• Article | 1/06/2009 Microsoft Bing goes live: So what?

  Now that its available, my first experiences with Microsoft Bing lead me to a simple, inescapable conclusion, "So what?" I had imagined that something...
• Article | 29/05/2009 Hands on with Microsoft Bing

  At last, Bing has arrived. I tested a preview release of Microsoft's new search/decision engine, previously called Kumo, to see how well it compares. ...
• Article | 28/05/2009 5 things I want to know about Bing

  Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is expected to take the stage Thursday at the D: All Things D conference and debut Redmond's new search brand, codenamed Kum...
• Article | 27/05/2009 Microsoft 'Bing' would bring new life to old domain

  Microsoft's planning to relaunch its Live search engine under the name "Bing," a recent report suggests.