Well it’s that time of the month when the US search market share reports start showing up, and first up this month is Hitwise. They’re showing some strong increases for Bing, and a decline for Google. Here’s the main chart, …
UK website promotes Bing
Been seeing a lot of positive reaction to a new website from the UK that promotes Bing. The site, www.thisbeautifulthing.co.uk, in all its full Flash glory, walks us through a number of the more popular (and in this promotion, …
Bing vs. Google, some (final?) thoughts: What was Matt Cutts thinking?
All week we’ve been sorting through the many many blog posts, videos, and reports on the can of worms that Matt Cutts and the engineers at Google opened up last Monday when they went to Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan …
Will MIX 11 make Windows Phone 7 developers happy?
WMPowerUser.com just posted a transcript of an interview done with Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7 platform at Microsoft. While nothing specific was announced (as expected), Brandon Watson pointed developers to wait for the MIX 11 …
Bing Box for site owners to be discontinued on April 4
The Bing Developer team recently posted on their blog announcing that the "Bing Box" functionality on bing.com/siteowner will be discontinued on April 4, 2011. Websites that attempt to query the Bing Box will be redirected to a 404 page. Rather, …
Office Web Apps continue to expand global availability
Starting today, Office Web Apps become available in 150 new countries including India, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand and more. So people in these countries can use Office Web Apps to view, edit and share Office documents on …
Matt Cutts is pissed: Should Microsoft respond?
It’s pretty apparent that Google thinks they caught Bing with their hand in the cookie jar, and they’re not happy. Or at least Matt Cutts isn’t, although if you believe the likes of Kara Swisher at All Things D, …
New from Hotmail: Email Alias
Well this is kinda cool – today Hotmail unveiled a nifty new tool to manage your mail, the Hotmail Alias. Here’s how it works. First, log in to your Hotmail account and right click the inbox settings icon (the wheel/gear …
Windows Home Server RC Preview released with a replacement for Drive Extender (sorta)
Even though Windows Home Server isn’t specifically a Windows Live product, it does fall within the consumer space, we happen to like it, and we like to keep you up to date on what really is an essential component of …
“Google vs. Bing” now up on BigThink.com
Yesterday, amid all the hubbub about Google calling Microsoft “cheaters”, and Microsoft firing right back, came a Bing sponsored conference in San Francisco held by BigThink.com. The four hour conference was supposed to be a discussion about the future …
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