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How will Google’s Chinese Withdrawal Affect Microsoft and Yahoo?

Following recent cyber attacks on Google.cn, the companies presence in China, Google have recently decided to cease censoring their search results in the country, which will likely lead to a full withdrawal considering such a decision is against the law in China, which heavily censors the internet in a method that has become known as [...]

Yahoo to Use Bing Search Engine In New Deal

Microsoft and Yahoo have finally finalised a deal that could go a long way into helping Bing achieve a foothold in the browser market. The deal has been ongoing for around 6 months now, but this week both parties have finally agreed to the terms which will see Bing powering Yahoo’s search for the next [...]

Microsoft “Bug” Results in Chinese Censorship

Dealing with China and Chinese Government in general can be a tricky area for many companies. If you want to do business in China you’re almost certainly going to have to change some of your company policy in order to continue to operate. This is never seen more than on the internet, where normally liberal [...]

Bing courts News Corp for exclusive content rights

Bing is trying to gain ground on Google’s dominance in the search arena. What is completely shocking is that Microsoft is actually thinking about a deal to pay News Corp to pull its content from Google. What? yes you heard correctly. If this deal is accepted Bing would be the ONLY search engine allowed to spider [...]

Bing’s Plans for the UK run into trouble

Previously we’ve posted a few times about Bing’s plan to move into the heavily Google-centric UK market with a marketing campaign similar in scope to what it had been producing for the American audience. It seems now though that Microsoft have put plans for a Bing UK launch back indefinitely following feedback that believes the [...]

New Research Shows Yahoo being left Behind by Bing, meanwhile Google Still Rules Search

Online researcher comScore have produced their latest market figures of the online search world, which have shown a minor rise in the amount of people using Google and Bing to complete online searches. Yahoo, previously a main competitor to both Google and Microsoft Live, has seen more reductions in the number of searches but still [...]

Bing Introduces Visual Search

It’s a pretty simple concept and one that various search engine developers have been experimenting with for several years: Can users make a successful search using images instead of plain text? While we’ve seen various search engines attempt something like this, either with product images or snapshots of websites, we’ve not seen something quite as [...]

Bing: Fastest Growing Search Engine in the US

Despite a slow start and several predictions from industry experts that Bing might not be able to make any significant impact in Google’s market share, Bing seems to finally be making serious inroads, at least the in the American market where it’s secured a nearly 11% market share. This news makes Bing the fastest growing search [...]