Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, has been lagging behind the search engine wars. Now, the company is on the offensive after they told Mashable that they have inked a deal with Amazon to be Kindle Fire HD’s default Web browser. The deal was only finalized a few days ago according to general manager of communications and [...] Read more → 
Google would like to cement their lead in the search engine market and further increase the lead they have with other competitors such as Yahoo and Bing. With this goal, Google has been eyeing tie-ups with other browsers, even if they have their own in Google Chrome. Google and Opera have agreed to extend their [...] Read more → 
Google maps has long been considered as the top of its class. But Microsoft is trying to change that when they upgraded Bing, which now boasts of a 165 terabyte satellite shots of locations throughout the globe. This is the largest data release ever for Bing and Microsoft. Bing used to only have 129 TB [...] Read more → 
Trying to invigorate and wanting to gain fame through national conversation, Microsoft launches its latest service called the msnNow. This service collates the most shared content on the web and places it on a new Web site, mobile phone browsers and Facebook reader. This service uses algorithms created by the company to scour through Facebook, [...] Read more → Microsoft is jumping in the bandwagon and is bringing more diversity and flexibility into their Xbox consoles. The update is said to transform the console into an entertainment hub, rather than just a gaming tool. Forty media firms have already signed up with Microsoft to provide both live and on-demand news and TV services to [...] Read more → Yes, its confirmed. Microsoft’s newest search engine, Bing, will be bringing real-time search results from Twitter and eventually, Facebook. The announcement was made by search head Qi Lu and senior vice president usuf Mehdi at the Web 2.0 Summit in Francisco held today. Real time tweets were available in beta from Twitter at Bing.com/twitter starting [...] Read more → Today, Microsoft released an open source software developer kit that’ll make the lives of iPhone developers… uhm, at least those who want to build iPhone apps that can access Bing. Using the kit, developers can create an app that searches Bing for Web info, news, videos, images and phonebook results. It can also be incorporated [...] Read more → Microsoft’s newest search engine seems to be getting better and better! Now, they have come up with an ingenious plan: incorporating the very popular Twitter in the search engine! Now who can say no to that? The Website is called BingTweets. The interface shows users a combined view of the search engine and a live [...] Read more → As I have written in one blog previously, many were skeptical about Microsoft’s Bing and its plan to compete with the two search engine giants. This isn’t a surprising reaction as Microsoft’s repeated efforts to come up with credible search engines fell flat before. Bing however, changed all that and as New York Times wrote, [...] Read more → For the second time since its launching, Microsoft’s newest search engine has surpassed Yahoo Search in terms of the most used search engine in the U.S. The first time was on the day of its launching, which many thought was attributed to the “launch momentum”. Bing however proved them wrong as it its been a [...] Read more → 