Microsoft is taking so many steps to stay in the hunt when it comes to the search engine market. Bing, the search engine, oops, decision engine, from Microsoft made some initial waves but hasn’t made any serious dent even in the search share of second place Yahoo, much less that of Google.
One of those steps [...]
Live is now Bing. Bing is now live. If you werent living in a cave you would have understood what I am talking about here, what with the entire web buzzing about the new search engine from Microsoft - Bing. The search engine that was - Live - is now rechristened as Bing.
But a change [...]
I never for once believed that Google will change its successful search interface. But by launching SearchWiki, Google seems to have made radical changes to its interface and marks Google’s deviation from solely basing search results on its algorithms to allowing users having a say on the ranking of the results to their search queries.
Of [...]
Traditionally, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft corporation are adversaries. They were(are?) bitter enemies, and in 2004, Sun got around $2 billion in a patent and antitrust settlement payout from Microsoft for its handling over Sun’s Java software, among other issues.
In what is being seen as some desperate measure, Microsoft has made an agreement with Sun whereby [...]
First it was Live Cashback. Now its SearchPerks. In a move to grab more market share in the Google dominated search industry, Microsoft has come up with yet another way to pay the users of its efficient but very sparingly used Live search engine.
Microsoft’s Live Search Cashback program has failed to grow the company’s search [...]
