I don't know if Microsoft did it on purpose or if it is just a coincidence but Bing's new logo is awfully similar to the Google Drive logo (which, for the record, existed prior to Bing releasing their new logo).
Microsoft has been doing a lot of improvements to SkyDrive over the past couple of months, so it came as no surprise to see the company going at it again. On August 28, Microsoft announced via its blog that Bing-powered OCR (optic...
Microsoft wants students and teachers to search the internet without getting bombarded by ads and adults content. And they want to beat Google. So, earlier this summer, the company announced Bing for Schools, a special program tha...
After what seems like forever, Microsoft has finally brought its Bing Weather, News, Sports, and Finance apps to Windows Phone 8. The mobile versions of the apps are near identical to the versions on Windows 8, which proves apps o...
"Congratulations Travis. Did you mean: Congratulations Traitor?"
At Design Day 2013 in Norway, a presentation called “The Re-Imagining of Microsoft” was held. In it, Windows Phone design studio general manager Albert Shum talked with Wolff Olins creative director Todd Simmons about ...
If you’ve never heard of it, Wolfram Alpha is a pretty unique search engine tool. It’s specifically designed to “compute answers” and “provide knowledge.” It essentially generates an extremely detailed report of any topic that you...
It would appear Microsoft and Bing have run into a bit of a problem. I mean besides the fact that Bing is not quite as useful a search engine of course. Then again, this issue will only affect those smart dotTechies out there usin...
Oddly enough, this is somewhat true.
Search engines like Google and Bing index the web. The web contains thousands (millions?) of malware links, either malicious websites or malicious downloads. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that malware links can be found wh...
If you are depressed, do not go to Bing.
If I were a 'Bing man' I wouldn't be posting this.
Facebook has just announced “Graph Search,” which they’re hoping will change the way you search for new friends, connections and even answers on the social network. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is careful to note that thi...
Google and Bing both have an ‘autocomplete’ feature that attempts to predict what you want to search for. The predictions provided by Google and Bing depend on two factors: what other users searched for and your past s...
Over the years people have accused Bing of copying Google, or at least making changes to Bing that make it appear to be more Google-ish. With a new change to Google.com, it may actually be Google copying Bing. I was running a sear...
