Posts Tagged ‘Bing’

Last year, Microsoft announced its new partnership with its search engine Bing and the social network Facebook. Now, about five months later, we are finally seeing a result: users who have logged into Facebook and then who conduct a search on Bing will see results that friends have recommended using the “like” button. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting the end of 2011, the standard search engine and map service from Microsoft Bing will be integrated on all new Blackberry devices worldwide. This bit of information was announced by Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer at the Blackberry World in Orlando.
Previously, the Canadian developer Research in Motion (RIM) has offered the services provided by Google. The new cooperation with Microsoft will not only be seen on RIM’s smartphones, but also on their first tablet computer, the Playbook. Accordingly, both of the companies also plan on developing new apps for local and social services or other augmented reality apps.

Wow…finally something that location-based freaks’ dreams are made of: you zoom over a map in your city, your neighborhood, your street, your favorite bar, you take a look at the types hanging around, get information about the drinks or about the pictures hanging on the wall, etc. etc. Read the rest of this entry »

An intense fight has broken out between Google and Microsoft. The search engine giant has accused their competition of taking Google search results and using them on Bing. Microsoft has vehemently denied the accusations and is now claiming that Google is guilty of manipulation through click-fraud.

One allegation after another. Media reports are discussing the possible name-and-shame campaign going on between the two internet giants. Rather than behaving like adults and discussing the issues in a factual manner, the accusations are beginning to sound like childish reactions in the style of “a Roland for an Oliver”. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft’s search engine Bing has announced a number of updates that will be going live in the next couple of weeks. In particular, the local offering from Bing Maps, the counterpart of Google Maps, will be launching some new features. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft’s Bing has been using free map material from the community project OpenStreetMap for their local offering with Bing Maps for a while now. The data exchange is now being intensified due to Steve Coast’s, OpenStreetMap’s founder, new job at Microsoft. Coast, as a leading manager, will be responsible for the integration of the Open Source Maps (OSM) to Bing Mobile, according to the Bing Blog. In return, OpenStreetMap will have access to the high-resolution aerials from Microsoft as well as a supporting software which would help simplify the mapping process through OpenStreetMap. Read the rest of this entry »

In mid-November, the internet giant Google launched a recommendation platform with its new service Hotpot. With the release, a wave of competition drive has swept over online networks. Hotpot highlights ratings from friends in localized searches, and is integrated with Google’s local directory service Places. Read the rest of this entry »

What a coincidence: one day after Google caused an earthquake in the local search engine world with Places Search, Bing releases an almost touchingly charmily how-to for locating Locations. Read the rest of this entry »

It doesn’t take a genius to realize what’s going on with Facebook right now. Though all of the kinks have yet to be fixed with the new Place feature, market researcher Comscore has come up with some spectacular numbers: Facebook is just one step away from beating Yahoo as the third most visited website in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

In an interview with CkickZ News, Foursquare has officially denied that there are no plans for any data partnerships with Google, Yahoo, or Bing as reported by the Daily Telegraph. Read the rest of this entry »