Google has undergone a face-lift — and it looks suspiciously like Microsoft’s Bing. It won’t change your search results, says search guru John Battelle but it will change the way we search.
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Twitter finally turns a profit
Twitter’s real-time search deals with Microsoft and Google — worth about $25 million combined — will see the company finally turn a (small) profit this year, according to company insiders.
Microsoft vs. Google, round 567: Bing Maps launched
Microsoft has fired the latest shot in the search engine wars, launching its own map service to compete directly with Google Maps. Bing Maps lets users view satellite maps in 3D, and integrate apps like Twitter to overlay extra data.
The most searched words of 2009
What was the internet searching for in 2009? ReadWriteWeb checks out the year’s top search terms for Google and Bing. Why are so many people searching for Twitter? How hard is “www.twitter.com” to remember?
Murdoch puts a gun to Google’s head, Microsoft helps pull the trigger
Rupert Murdoch has been threatening to pull all News Corp content from Google, and Microsoft is willing to pay him to do it. But Bing can’t buy all the news — and it might just sell its credibility in the process.
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Microsoft-Murdoch deal in the works
Microsoft is in negotiations with News Corp to pay the media empire to pull all its news content from Google, insiders tell the Financial Times.
Kristof: Microsoft’s Bing is a Chinese propaganda tool
NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof is calling on his readers to boycott Microsoft’s Bing search engine, because it actively censors search results in China on politically sensitive topics like Tienanmen Square and Tibet.
How Murdoch can really hurt Google
Rupert Murdoch’s recent rejection of Google may be less about news content and more about the search engine wars, suggests Michael Arrington: by de-indexing from Google, other search engines could pay him for the rights to index News Corp content.
Microsoft vs. Google: who’s winning the social media search wars?
Yesterday, both Google and Microsoft announced deals with Twitter to add tweets to their search results. But which company scored the better deal? And which will do a better job? The blogosphere weighs in.
The search is over: Yahoo gives in to Microsoft
Yahoo has officially given up on trying to best Google in the search engine game, finally reaching a partnership deal with Microsoft after years of negotiations and scrapping their own search engine in favour of the software giant’s new model, Bing.
VIDEO: TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington on Charlie Rose
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington talks to Charlie Rose about Google vs. Microsoft Bing, e-readers, Facebook and his decision to publish those leaked Twitter documents.
China blocks social media sites in lead-up to Tiananmen date
The Great Firewall of China is in full swing, with authorities blocking Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Blogger, and a number of other sites as the date of Tiananmen approaches.
Microsoft Bing: will it fizzle or boom?
Microsoft have launched a new search engine in an attempt to rival Google: Bing. But will it be the next great innovation since Windows, or another Microsoft Bob?
Microsoft wants you to Bing it
Microsoft are hoping their new search engine, Bing, will see people stop “Googling” and starting “Binging”. But as Valleywag puts it: “the name reminds us mostly of Sopranos strippers and the guy who knocked up Elizabeth Hurley.”








