Microsoft added welcome improvements to Bing for Mobile today: faster methods to access weather, transit information with real-time scheduling data, local movies and more. The features were built with HTML5 so they work on iOS and Android devices, but not yet on Windows Phone 7. Read more »
Microsoft, like its rival Google, sees dollars in daily deals. The company today announced Bing Deals, which integrates daily discount information from The Dealmap into its Bing mobile and desktop sites. The idea puts Microsoft into the same game as Groupon and Living Social. Read more »
Google is finding its social legs and is launching a set of improvements to its search product that help it keep pace with rivals, who are increasingly weaving social signals into search results. Google is now including more results that are created and shared by friends. Read more »
Bing Mobile is getting a serious update on the iPhone and to a lesser extent on Android, with a handful of mobile specific features that draw from other existing apps and services. The update is designed to make Bing Mobile a go-to resource for mobile users. Read more »
Despite Google’s comments that its new search update Google Instant has had a minimal effect on revenue, it hasn’t stopped Morgan Stanley from upping its revenue estimates by $1.5 billion for 2011, based largely on the strength of Google Instant’s potential impact. Read more »
Along with Google’s recent rollout of Google Instant comes the expectation for quicker, more dynamic results on a search page. From the point of view of a user, such demands are obvious. But search marketers — those who want to promote their sites by increasing visibility ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Google today on its quarterly earnings call broke out some numbers that it doesn’t historically give (and doesn’t promise to give in the future): revenue and monetization rates for display, video and mobile advertising. The intent was to show that Google isn’t just a search company. Read more »
Microsoft released the Bing for Mobile Android Application today, but the software is exclusive to Verizon Wireless handsets. This follows Skype Mobile as another third-party app that’s limited to a carrier, not a platform, which is a disturbing trend and could bring consumer backlash. Read more »
Did you miss the Comic-Con premiere of The Guild‘s follow-up to Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? Don’t fret — Game On, the Bollywood-inspired music video with some other moments of Asian flair (as well as an elephant) is up on Bing.com right now. Read more »
As the data landscape changes, so must the databases used to gather, store and analyze the rich information within them. Consumer-facing Internet companies are able to scale by using NoSQL data stores, and CIOs can learn from what’s worked for hugely successful web sites. Here, we offer a number of recommendations for enterprise decision makers. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
It’s pretty amazing that raw Twitter posts already show up by default right on Google search results pages. Today at the Search Marketing Expo, project managers from the three major search engine gave insight into their companies’ approaches to the quickened pace of the web. Read more »
Microsoft is many things, but it’s not a successful web company. For 15 years, Microsoft has tried time and again to become a major player online. Yet despite having the most popular browser, it’s never really monetized the web in a significant way. Read more »
Maybe I am too set in my ways, but I never even really tried using Bing all that much when it was released. I also found it too busy. Sure, I’m all for beautiful sweeping nature photography, but not on my search page. So I stuck […] Read more »
Microsoft , with a nod toward privacy, has announced that it will limit the amount of time that it stores IP addresses of web searchers using the Bing search engine to six months, down from 18. The move follows similar policy shifts at Google and Yahoo. Read more »
The upcoming Michael Cera film Youth in Revolt, opening tomorrow in theaters, isn’t your typical teen comedy, at least judging by the trailer. So how do you get teenagers to see it? Hitch the Michael Cera star to one of the biggest teen trends going today […] Read more »
Mobile augmented reality (AR) brings computer-generated multimedia into an end-user’s literal field of vision. It merges real-time digital information with the user’s perceptions of his or her immediate physical surroundings. The mobile AR user simultaneously experiences physical reality and digital media consumption. This report looks at the growing mobile AR ecosystem, from the technologies and trends supporting its development to the applications, players, and business models driving innovation. The report includes a forecast for the number of mobile AR–capable devices, summarizes existing revenue forecasts for the nascent market, and leverages three in-depth case studies to demonstrate the intersections between markets, technologies, and companies in emerging applications. Read more »
Bing’s outage, which came shortly after the rollout of well-reviewed new features, has given many a reason to joke: It is Microsoft, after all. Indeed, when trying to establish your brand and service against a near monopoly, you can’t afford to have even one such outage. Read more »
With Google having tied up the search market, Microsoft is redefining the category to include browsing and discovery. Executives at a press conference in San Francisco today presented Bing as a portal that organizes information to anticipate what users may want to know and decide. Read more »
It’s good that Bing, Yahoo and Google can agree on at least one thing for their closely timed year-end search-term roundups: Michael Jackson was tops in 2009. But as we’ve been griping for years now, these lists are mostly useless and misinterpreted. Read more »
Activist investor Carl Icahn has resigned from the board of Yahoo, and is praising both CEO Carol Bartz, who just presided over a quarter of improved earnings, as well as the rest of the company’s board for “acting so responsibly” in conjunction with the search transaction with […] Read more »
