Posts Tagged ‘bing’

Microsoft Starting Streetview Programme

14, Apr 2011

As we’ve noted before, anything Google can do, Microsoft can do to a slightly lesser standard a few years later. Not content with accusations that Bing is stealing from the Google algorithm, Microsoft have decided to unveil a brand new, never-before-seen addition to their maps functionality. Only joking – they’re launching their own version of [...]

Search Engines Celebrate Space Pioneer

12, Apr 2011

It is fifty years since Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was strapped into the cockpit of Vostok I and launched into space. On his return, the cosmonaut was made a Hero of the Soviet Union and gained worldwide fame and adoration. To mark Gagarin’s pioneering flight, the major search engines have commissioned logos and backdrops to help [...]

“Bing have copied our work!” – Google

2, Feb 2011

“You’ve copied my work!” You could be forgiven for thinking that we’re reporting on schoolroom bickering,  but a recent post on Google’s blog is claiming that rival search engine Bing has been copying Google’s search results. Google say that Bing are using IE8 and the Bing toolbar to monitor what people search for on Google, [...]

Ask Jeeves’ Unanswerables – How do the Other Search Engines Fare?

20, Sep 2010

The only search engine with a suited mascot, Ask Jeeves (formerly Ask, formerly Ask Jeeves) is ten today. And to celebrate, they’re asking some of life’s “Unanswerable Questions“. But are they really unanswerable? Or could Google and Bing do better? We’re going to put the two leading search engines to the test by asking them [...]

Microsoft steps up advertising campaign in a bid to attract Google users.

9, Mar 2010

With a tag line of “Bing and Decide” Microsoft aim to show customers how different their search engine is companied to the others and say it functions more like a “decision engine”. There is certainly a bit of a dig at Google as they show people suffering from information overload and total chaos with search [...]


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