Bing: Re-organizing the Web to Get Stuff Done
Dec. 6, 2012
Peter Pachal/Mashable
Microsoft is investing money and time into Bing, aiming to not just create a search engine that can compete with Google, but to build a platform that can be integrated into all its products and change the nature of search.
Don’t Ask? Internet Still Tells
Nov. 22, 2012
Quentin Hardy/New York Times
Sites like Google and Bing are showing the precise questions that are most frequently asked, giving everyone a chance to peer virtually over one another’s shoulders at private curiosities.
Microsoft to Google: Proof Our Search Is Better
Sept. 6, 2012
Fortune
"[Microsoft] announced a "Bing It On" challenge that will encourage users to conduct blind comparison tests between the two search engines after research by an independent firm showed that users on average prefer Bing."
The New Bing Is Indeed Great
June 1, 2012
PCMag
“And how are the results of the search? Excellent, plain and simple. I have routine searches I like to do to test these things and it performed as well or better than Google, with an organizational edge over Google.”
Microsoft’s Bing Gets A New Look, Offers New Functions
May 15, 2012
USA Today (Video)
"I like the direction Microsoft is taking with the new Bing. I like the design. I like the idea of social search incorporating your friends into search. And, in theory it should only get better as more people are out there using it."
Bing Deepens Facebook Integration, Connecting Searchers With Friends
May 10, 2012
CNET
"Bringing social networking to search has become something of a holy grail for the Web. One problem with traditional search is that users often have a hard time figure out which sources are most trusted. Having friends guide them removes that uncertainty."
Bing to Be Revamped in War for Search Engine Supremacy
May 10, 2012
New York Times
"The new Bing has a much cleaner design that tucks all of the social search results away into a sidebar on the Bing search results pages, where they are now clearly distinct from the traditional Bing search results on the left side of the screen."
The New Bing Makes Google Look Anti-Social
May 10, 2012
ReadWriteWeb
"The new Bing works in exactly the right way. It disentangles the many kinds of information we get from search instead of mashing them all together.”
Bing Beats Google On Search Effectiveness
Aug. 30, 2011
Information Week
“The success rate for Bing searches in the U.S. in July was 80.04%, compared to 67.56% for Google, according to Experian Hitwise. The market watcher defines 'success rate' as the percentage of search queries that result in a visit to a website. Searches made through sites owned by Yahoo, which farmed out search to Bing under a deal struck in 2009, were also more efficient than Google. Those searches yielded a success rate of 81.36%.“
Can Microsoft Make You ’Bing’?
July 30, 2011
New York Times
“Technology experts agree that Bing is making innovative strides. ’There is so little context in current search, and what Microsoft is trying to do is present users with context and structure, more a map of the world of information instead of just ranking it, especially in specific subject areas like travel and health,’ says Esther Dyson, an investor in start-ups and a longtime technology analyst.“
Bing iPad Lasso: Circle Words to Search
July 6, 2011
PCMag
“Microsoft updated its iPad app for Bing this week with more than 100 new features and improvements, but one particular feature has caught the attention of the tech community more than others. A new magic lasso tool lets users circle words that they want to search, rather than highlighting and copying and pasting them into a search bar.”
Microsoft Bing Innovates on iPad With ’Lasso’ Quick Search
July 5, 2011
GeekWire
“The feature is called ’Lasso.’ Users will activate it by pressing an icon in the upper right of the app, then circle a phrase or word they want to search in the text. When they take their finger off the screen, the app will automatically conduct a Bing search for that text.”
Microsoft Bing Adds Facebook Data to Show What Friends Like
May 16, 2011
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
“The company is broadening the scope of a tool that lets users who are searching for a restaurant, movie or news story see if their friends have ’liked’ it on Facebook, the world’s most popular social network. Searches for places will list friends who live nearby, while looking for www.amazon.com shows Amazon items ’liked’ by friends, as well as popular items among the Facebook community…”
Bing Laces Search Results With Facebook Connections
May 16, 2011
USA TODAY
“If you’re signed into Facebook at the time you conduct a search — for example, locating wineries in Napa, choosing a digital camera or merely looking for interesting articles on a given topic — you’ll see the names (and in some cases) faces of Facebook friends who happened to click on the ’Like’ button next to an item inside Facebook. You’ll received personalized search results based on who your friends are and what they like.”
Bing Shopping Experience Upgrade Rolls Out
April 29, 2011
Softpedia
“The latest update to Bing is focused on enabling customers that shop online to spend less time searching and combing through the overload of results and more time well, actually shopping.”
Bing Maps Aerial Victory
April 27, 2011
Forbes
“Over the past three years, Microsoft has created a uniform, detailed map of the Continental United States and 17 countries in Western and Central Europe. The results are spectacular – a single view of about 7 million square miles, with relatively even lighting and height, at a granularity of about 30 centimeters of land per pixel of image.”
Microsoft Unveils Photosynth iOS App with Bing Maps, Facebook Sharing
April 18, 2011
PCMag
“With the app, you can point your iPhone or other iOS device at a scene—whether it’s a museum installation, kid’s birthday party, or tourist attraction—and snap various angles. Photosynth will piece it together and provide you with the opportunity to post it to Photosynth.net, Facebook, or Bing Maps. When you publish on Bing Maps, other users who search for that location can see the panoramas you’ve created.”
Data: Bing, Yahoo Gain on Google
April 11, 2011
GeekWire
“Experian Hitwise also cited another metric suggesting that Bing and Yahoo are delivering more relevant results than their larger rival, with more than 80 percent of searches on their sites resulting in a visit to a website, compared with 66 percent for Google.”
Bing for iPad a ’Killer App,’ Says Analyst
April 7, 2011
Computerworld
“’This is a killer app,’ said Greg Sterling, an analyst with Sterling Market Intelligence. ’There’s lots of information, it’s optimized for the tablet and you can browse very easily. Bing did a really terrific job with this.’”
Bing Extends Social Search Features
March 25, 2011
CIO
“The new capabilities build on existing links Bing has to both Twitter and Facebook, highlighting the increased importance of meshing search engines with social networking sites. For some queries, input from people’s social circle is very valuable and relevant.”
Bing Taking Advantage of Web’s Evolution: Microsoft Exec
March 24, 2011
eWeek
“But thanks to natural evolution, Weitz said, the ’fundamental structure of the Web seems to be morphing,’ adding to the traditional web-of-pages a few new layers: a social one, as represented by Websites such as Twitter and Facebook; a geospatial element, which essentially seeks to create a digital representation of the real world; and more powerful services. Bing is seeking to play on all those layers, in the process sidestepping Google’s dominance of keyword-based search in favor of new and relatively untapped verticals.”
Bing Now Aggregates, Recommends Local Deals
March 3, 2011
CNET
“Bing Deals, which will show up for both desktop and m.bing.com users, aggregates deals from a number of deal providers, including LivingSocial, Groupon, and Restaurant.com. On the mobile side, when combined with a phone’s real-time location, this lets users see which of the deals from those services are nearby.”
Microsoft’s Bing Wrests Search Share From Google
Feb. 8, 2011
VentureBeat
“Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, now has 27 percent of the search engine market and is quickly gaining on Google, according to Hitwise. Bing’s share rose by 6 percent in the month of January alone. The bigger news, and perhaps the underlying reason for the rise: Microsoft’s Bing might be the better search engine. Hitwise says that Google’s ’success rate’ is just 65 percent, compared with an 82 percent score for Bing. The success rate is the percentage of times users click on links yielded by searches.”