Enlarge / Wow, there are maps at the bottom of the Google homepage! Check out this totally crazy Google homepage experiment spotted by 9to5Google: the search page suddenly has a row of cards at the bottom. If this design is widely adopted, it would easily be google.com’s biggest design change ever. In the experiment, Google.com […]
A recent report from The edge illustrates that not everyone follows what the tech press considers a good search engine. For example, many people use Bing instead of Google for their internet search needs. If this shocks you because “Bing is garbage,” keep reading. Although I did not find The edge surprising report, a recurring […]
In July 2020, Bing released its first official plugin for WordPress that allowed site owners to submit URLs and index their content immediately, instead of waiting for the search engine to crawl the site. The IndexNow API, which debuted in October 2021, is the next evolution of the Bing URL Submission API, created by Microsoft […]
Restarting Google Chrome helps you fix minor issues and enable certain extensions in the browser. It’s easy to close and reopen Chrome on your desktop and mobile devices, and we’ll show you how. RELATED: How to restart Chrome in one click using a bookmark Restart Google Chrome with an address bar command On desktop and […]
DuckDuckGo works on a dedicated desktop browser for users who don’t want to be tracked while browsing the web. Desktop software will, by default, have “robust privacy protection” on its search engine, email, “and more,” according to a blog post. The browser will have the same “Fire” button to instantly clear the browsing history and […]
Yuliya_vektor / Shutterstock.com When SafeSearch is enabled, your search engines block what they consider mature content from your search results. If you want to include these results in your searches, you will need to turn off SafeSearch first. Here’s how. RELATED: 5 alternative search engines that respect your privacy How to turn off SafeSearch on […]
Can’t play videos in Google Chrome? There could be several reasons why Chrome is not playing the video you want to watch. Fortunately, troubleshooting this issue will only take a few minutes and there are some easy ways to fix the video playback issue. The problem could be with the website you are trying to […]
Yahoo released the Culture category results for its 2021 Yahoo Search Grand Prix ranking. The 2021 Yahoo Search Grand Prix examines how many more users are searching for works or people compared to the previous year. Tokyo Avengers, Uma Musume: nice derby, and Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0: Once upon a time three times were all […]
Microsoft is rolling out a new search feature to its Bing platform that will help users find relevant information at a glance. Earlier today, Microsoft announced Page Insights which extends the functionality of Bing search by providing “one-page summary information about your search results.” A new light bulb icon will now appear next to some […]
Chrome remains the most popular web browser on the Internet and the developers at Google are not slowing down, especially in the face of increased competition from Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox. For Chrome users who were considering a switch, Chrome is about to get a little faster and a lot less memory-intensive. In a […]
Searching the web on Google Chrome is now faster than ever thanks to a new omnibox update in Google’s browser. In a new post from the search giant The fast and the curious series by Chrome Product Manager Yana Yushkina, the company explained that searching in Chrome is now even faster, because search results are […]
What happened Actions of Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) are up 11% since last Friday’s close at 11:10 a.m. EDT today, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, after it was reported that Chinese regulators are considering forcing competitors like ByteDance and Tencent to display their social media content in internet search results. So what […]
You would assume that Google is the only search engine in the world worth talking about, but Bing has made a lot of progress lately and if you take a look at a few other countries, you will find that Google’s influence isn’t is by no means universal. For example, in Russia the most popular […]
Microsoft Bing and Russian search engine Yandex on Monday announced a new protocol designed to speed up website search updates. Called IndexNow, the protocol uses an API to make it easy for websites to notify search engines whenever content is created, updated, or deleted. Once search engines are notified of updates, they can quickly crawl […]
The search engine war is over. Google currently holds over 90% of the search engine market share. However, users are free to swipe with Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo from the company’s Google Chrome browser. If you keep getting redirected to Yahoo search on Google Chrome, it’s time to switch from Yahoo to Google once and […]
THE BEST OFFERS OF THE DAY Baidu is the leading search engine in China – you can think of it as the Google of China. And while Google has a global presence and can be accessed by Chinese users (to some extent), Baidu is the search engine of choice there. For US and English speaking […]
Source: Chris Wedel / Android Central Google is reportedly developing a new Chrome feature that will let you open your recent search results in a sidebar. The experimental feature, dubbed “Side Search,” appears to be similar to Microsoft Edge’s sidebar search feature. According to 9to5Google, the experimental feature opens a sidebar to the left of […]
Sofia Noor Rafa | Posted: Sept. 24, 2021, 7:15 p.m. Why is Google the most popular and used search engine? It is one of the most debatable subjects of all time. The discussion about this might get bigger than it is great, and the facts can clash with each other. Tech writer Levy Steve long […]
The latest experiment the Chrome team is working on is a feature called “Side Searchâ€. While not yet available in a Chrome branch, a recently merged commit on Chromium Gerrit shed light on this upcoming feature. First spotted by tipster Chrome Leopeva64, it seems that Side Search displays the relevant search results in a small […]
Did you know you can use Google as a timer, text editor, and currency converter? Or that you can add quotes and other symbols to get more precise results? You can even choose to search for specific websites right from your browser. Google Chrome is a pretty amazing tool on its own, but you can […]
Launch Google Chrome (or any other Chromium-based browser like Microsoft Edge or Brave) and start typing in the address bar (actually called the omnibar). The browser starts showing you stuff. And not just random stuff. It’s almost like he knows us. It does. But how does it work? How does the browser find what it […]
Microsoft has announced its next AI model, a large-scale sparse model that complements our production Transformer models, which they call MEB or “Make Every Feature Binaryâ€. Microsoft said this makes search results on Bing more relevant. In fact, MEB works in production for 100% of Bing searches, in all regions and all languages. Comment, well, […]
Google has more than 92% of the market share in the search engine and is also a default option on Mac. However, if you find that your Mac is changing Google’s search engine to Yahoo, then this is a problem that needs to be addressed. If your Mac is affected by the search engine change, […]
Baidu is a Chinese technology company known as Google in China. According to Investopedia, it is the 6th largest search engine in the world and since Google is banned in mainland China, Baidu holds 78% of the Chinese search engine market share. Baidu was founded by two co-founders Robin Li and Eric Xu in January […]
Courageous Browsers have been popular for many years providing a privacy-focused browsing experience. The company is currently releasing a public beta of a search engine called BraveSearch, which hopes to take control of Google Search, the ultimate market leader. Search engines provide a similar experience to Google, allowing users to sort and display results such […]
Baidu and Weibo, two of the largest internet services in China, appear to be leading coordinated censorship efforts on the keywords of the three major crypto exchanges that cater to Chinese investors. Searching for the Chinese or English names of Huobi, Binance and OKEx on the desktop and mobile versions of Google-like search giant Baidu […]
Microsoft Corp pictured the phrase “tankman,” which refers to a symbolic image of a lone protester walking towards a tank during a 1989 protest in Tiananmen Square on the 32nd by search engine Bing And after blocked the results of the video, blamed the human Error. Anniversary of military repression. According to Reuters and Vice […]
South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman suggests ways to hold China accountable as investigations into the origins of COVID-19 begin. Users searching the Microsoft-created Bing search engine for an image of the ‘tank man’ from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests find no results – even when searching from the US – which raises concerns about censorship. […]
Microsoft is currently working on a new update for Bing that will add an AI-powered assistant bot to its search engine. As reported by Most recent windows, the new assistant seems to offer the same functionality as Cortana and will be able to communicate directly through search results. Microsoft has been developing bots for Bing […]
Yahoo was a pioneer of the early Internet age. Evolving from a directory of human-edited websites, Yahoo in 1995 launched its first search engine – Yahoo Search. In the year 2000, it was the most popular site in the world. Yahoo Search has opened up the Internet to millions of people. It was a simple […]
While Yahoo was once the world’s leading search engine, Google has gradually gained ground. Google is fast becoming the most popular search engine in the world. Microsoft, on the other hand, is about to issue a major challenge to Google. Microsoft Corporation has made an offer to purchase Yahoo Inc. for $ 44.6 billion (approximately […]
Angela Lang / CNET It’s finish. On May 4, Yahoo Answers went offline, ending one of the weirdest, oldest, and least organized crowdsourced question-and-answer communities. The seemingly endless parade of queries submitted by users ranged from intriguing thought experiments (from Stephen Hawking, no less) to the absurdity of someone asking the community, “What did my […]
Source: Daniel Rubino / Windows Central The Microsoft Bing Search app on Android has a new look that emphasizes that it’s not just about searching the web. Microsoft has been trying to convince people that its Bing app goes beyond search for some time, but the app’s update experience goes even further. The app now […]
Home > Anti-piracy > DMCA > Bing has a relatively small market share, but that doesn’t mean copyright holders are ignoring it. In response to DMCA takedown requests, over 125 million links were removed from the search engine last year. While this is a significant number, removal requests have actually been cut in half over […]
When it comes to search marketing in China, Baidu is an essential component. In fact, as I write this, Baidu accounts for 78.4% of search engine market share in China compared to Google’s 1.9% (Sogou comes in at 13.8%, Haosou at 2.2% and Bing at 2%). However, to succeed in what is the most populous […]
Microsoft Bing is launching five research updates that aim to move SERPs beyond a link list to give users a richer experience. The latest updates from Bing have one thing in common: They all combine visually rich images with textual information in a single view. The experience is described as more intuitive and engaging. The […]
The software giant is trading one review source for another ahead of its potential dominance in Australia. How often has an online search engine review influenced your shopping habits and nightlife? If you use Yelp to gauge whether a place is worth visiting or not, you might be disappointed to learn that Microsoft Bing is […]
The tech giant will use machine learning to guess what you tried to type. Getting the wrong word in a single word in a search query can turn a productive use of your time into a mess of irrelevant results. Microsoft aims to address this problem by introducing Speller100, an AI-based spell checker for Bing. […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed he has spoken to Google’s arch nemesis Microsoft and said the company is confident Bing could fill the void in Australia if Google withdraws its search service there. Google as well as Facebook have been in a quarrel continues with the Australian government on new media payment laws. […]
If there’s one thing that makes Microsoft Bing a growing competitor to Google, Microsoft has done its best to add more features. In the latest series, Microsoft has now introduced support for smarter recipe snippets on Bing. Microsoft Bing Recipes This means that the search engine would now perform better when it comes to fetching […]
Last month, the Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools team released Site Explorer. This powerful new SEO tool gives webmasters a unique view of how Microsoft Bing sees your site. You can filter all your URLs just like a file explorer, including: Indexed URLs. URLs that redirect. URLs blocked by robots.txt. This tool, which is not yet […]
Google Chrome is the majority of people’s favorite desktop browser. Consumers also prefer to use Google services such as Gmail, Google News, and Google Search for queries, searches, and projects. While Google Search is the default option on Google Chrome, we have seen reports of Google Chrome automatically changing the search engine to Yahoo. This […]
You’ve probably heard this a thousand times before, but let me say it once more: Google is the most popular search engine in the world. there is no doubt. On the contrary, you don’t need me to tell you how important Google is to satisfy your thirst for curiosity. Whether it’s a news event, sports […]
In a major branding overhaul, the Bing search engine is now officially known as Microsoft Bing, as expected. The rebranding is part of Microsoft’s bigger push to expand its Google search alternative. While Microsoft hasn’t explained much why it added the company name to the Bing brand, it’s pretty obvious that the company wants to […]
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been caught disclosing user data captured through its mobile apps for iOS and Android. The data includes private details such as GPS coordinates, device information, search queries, websites visited, and various other tokens and IDs. Security research found the data on an unsecured server owned by Microsoft. According to security […]
The misconfigured server saved data from the Bing mobile app. WizCase’s online security team discovered a massive data leak in a Microsoft-owned server that was logging data from the Bing mobile app. The leak was discovered through an insecure Elasticsearch server. The research team was led by hacker Ata Hackil, who believes the insecure server […]
As Google continues to dominate the market in 2020, competing search engines like Bing have slowly been pushing to nibble a portion of Google’s search market in recent years. In June, Google had around 84% market share and Bing 6%, according to a report by NetMarketShare. Bing performed very well in paid search in particular, […]
Being a distant second-place player, Microsoft has been hesitant to share exact numbers regarding the progress of its Bing search engine except to point out steady revenue growth and the project is cash flow positive (likely around $ 2.5 billion per quarter). Now, however, an undated slide posted by WalkingCat has gave us insight into […]
Microsoft’s Bing search engine appears to have been blocked in China. This move leaves the world’s largest population of Internet users without access to any well-known foreign search engine. Bing was only allowed to operate in China because it chose to comply with the strict demands of Chinese censors, who run one of the most […]
By Josh Horwitz, Brenda Goh (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s Bing search engine was accessible to some netizens in mainland China on Thursday evening, indicating that online access to the foreign tech service may have been restored in the country’s great firewall. Bing’s website was accessible over mobile connections as well as broadband connections, although some […]
UPDATE 1/24: China’s blocking of the Bing search engine appears to have lasted only about a day. On Thursday, access to the site returned. “We can confirm that Bing was inaccessible in China, but service is now restored,” a Microsoft spokesperson told PCMag. Users across the country reported the same on local social media. It’s […]
Microsoft confirmed Thursday that Bing is not available in China, raising concerns that it is the latest in a growing list of global internet platforms to be shut out of the huge Chinese market. A few hours later, however, some users were able to access the service again. “We can confirm that Bing was inaccessible […]
Microsoft’s Bing could not be viewed in China on Thursday due to an accidental technical error rather than censorship reasons, according to Bloomberg News sources. Access to Microsoft’s Bing search engine has since been restored in China, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to ZDNet. The company did not provide any further explanation of the reasons for […]
After a one-day outage, Microsoft’s Bing search engine is being restored in China, according to the company. On Thursday, users in China said they could not access Bing, making it the last foreign tech service closed behind the country’s great firewall. “We can confirm that Bing was inaccessible in China, but service is now restored,†[…]
Microsoft’s search engine serves and recommends child pornography, according to a survey by TechCrunch and third-party researchers. After receiving an anonymous tip that illegal images of children were readily available on Microsoft Bing, TechCrunch enlisted online abuse prevention firm AntiToxin to investigate. Together, they discovered that common search terms for child pornography yielded an array […]
Microsoft’s Bing search engine may have been around for nearly nine years, but it still seems like the company isn’t paying enough attention to it. Many internet users probably still struggle to take the Google alternative seriously, but the truth is that Bing can actually deliver deeply problematic search results. Today, a report commissioned by […]
Bing’s new smart visual search features make searching the internet more photo-friendly. Here’s how to access and use these new Bing features on a mobile device. Image: Getty Images / iStockphoto In June 2018, Microsoft announced that it was releasing new and improved intelligent visual search features for its search application, Bing. New technology allows […]
Tech2 News StaffSep 26, 2017 3:07:17 PM IST Apple abandoned Microsoft’s Bing, favoring Google as the default search engine for Siri web search results on ios and Spotlight on Mac. Last month, Google struck a deal with Apple to remain the default search engine on all iOS devices. Representation image In a report through TechCrunch, […]
Following Google’s removal of the “view image†button from its image search results last week, many users will be switching to other browsers like Microsoft’s Bing and Startpage which allow high-resolution images to be downloaded with a right click, media reported. Google, after signing a multi-year global licensing agreement with Getty Images, removed the “view […]
Following Google’s removal of the “view image” button from its image search results last week, several users will be switching to other browsers like Microsoft’s Bing and Startpage which allow high-resolution images to be downloaded with a right click, media reported. Google, after signing a multi-year global licensing agreement with Getty Images, removed the “view […]
Following Google’s removal of the “view image” button from its image search results last week, several users will be switching to other browsers like Microsoft’s Bing and Startpage which allow high-resolution images to be downloaded with a right click, media reported. Google, after signing a multi-year global licensing agreement with Getty Images, removed the “view […]
From the start, Siri has been the wind in Microsoft’s Bing. But those winds have calmed down: Apple will change the default web search in Siri and Spotlight from Bing to Google, starting today (September 25). “The move to Google as the web search provider for Siri, Search in iOS, and Spotlight on Mac will […]
Bing will now automatically detect AMP pages, which Microsoft says download much faster. Image: Microsoft Bing Microsoft has rolled out support for Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in its Bing app, aiming for faster load times for its mobile search. A special function Cloud – How to do SaaS correctly Software as a service offers […]
Bing, the search engine Microsoft pays you to use it, is jumping on the AMP bandwagon. The open source AMP format is essentially Google’s version of Facebook Instant Articles and its simplified format, which sort of dates back to the early days of the web, ensures that mobile pages load extremely quickly. Just as Google […]
People often forget that there are many ways to find web pages, directions, videos, and photos on the Internet. There are actually plenty of good reasons to try alternatives to market leader Google, and the Bing iPhone app shows several. Bing, which actually predates Google’s iPhone search app, has a beautiful design that’s clean and […]
It’s been a long, long time coming, but Microsoft’s Bing is officially no longer a bottomless financial pit. In its first quarter fiscal 2016 earnings call, Microsoft announced that Bing had finally reached profitability. Research contributed more than $ 1 billion in Microsoft’s first quarter of fiscal 2016, CFO Amy Hood said during the company’s […]
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Facebook has archived over a trillion status updates, text messages, photos, and archived content, which is why the social media company has placed a heavy focus on improving its search engine. For the past few years, Facebook has shown Bing.com’s results for keyword searches because they had a partnership with Microsoft . However, Facebook recently […]
Facebook has stopped including results from Microsoft’s Bing search engine on its social networking site. The move, confirmed by a company spokesperson, comes as Facebook revamped its own search offerings. On Monday alone, Facebook introduced a tool that allows users to quickly search and find past comments and other information posted by their friends. The […]
Facebook no longer displays search results from Microsoft’s Bing search engine on its on-site Graph Search product because Reuters reports. The move apparently happened four days ago, alongside an update that improved chart search so that it can return specific messages when you search instead of just people. In a statement to Venture out, a […]
Chrome’s new tab page displays Bing’s photo-centric search page for people who set it as default. screenshot by Stephen Shankland / CNET Google and Microsoft may be deadly enemies, vying for office productivity tools, operating systems, and search engines, but evidence of some cooperation is showing in a new version of Google’s web browser. For […]
Google and Microsoft have agreed on a set of changes that will see images of child abuse blocked in their search engines for the first time. Although companies have said in the past that it “cannot and should not be done,” the internet giants have now bowed to pressure from Prime Minister David Cameron – […]
Microsoft Bing is piloting a new form of search advertising in Windows 8.1 – allowing advertisers to promote themselves with bold photographs, personalized links, and other visual elements when users search for their brand names. The “Hero Adsâ€, unveiled today, combine elements of display advertising and search. They are tested by advertisers such as Land […]
Microsoft is creating a knowledge repository that knows in detail about the Horsfield Tarsier of the rainforest of Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo and all that pertains to it. Bing Microsoft’s Bing has no equivalent to Apple Siri or Google Now, but that doesn’t stop company officials from downplaying the value of the two most popular […]
Botnets also spend a good chunk of bandwidth – accounting for about 3.6% of total automated queries, according to Zhang – on finding movie trailers or online coupons to download. Interestingly, the researchers found that not all of these automated search junk files came from hacked computers. In fact, a good chunk of it – […]
Microsoft is trying to paint Google as a lousy holiday shopping guide in its latest attempt to divert more traffic to its Bing search engine. The attack began on Wednesday with a marketing campaign focused on a recent change in how Google operates the shopping results portion of its search engine. The reviews require merchants […]
from you-can’t-do-that-stuff-up department Ah, a fake DMCA notices that you can’t reconcile. TorrentFreak has a good article highlighting a completely bogus DMCA advisory from Microsoft (sent by one of its partners on its behalf) that tries to remove a bunch of legitimate news sites from Google’s index, claiming to wrongly that they violated the copyright […]
The battle between Bing and Google is getting personal, with the two search engines struggling to become more socially connected. Microsoft recently added social features to Bing in response to Google’s January rollout of Search Plus Your World (SPYW). Both forays into social integration attempt to bring your friends and relations into your research to […]
comScore released its search data for December 2011, and Google continues to lead in terms of market share, with 65.9%, down from 65.4% in November 2011 and 66.6% in December 2010. Year-over-year, queries increased by 9.7% in December. . Yahoo queries gained a 14.5% share, down from 15.1% in November 2011 and 16.0% in December […]
Microsoft Bing, which according to a recent ComScore report is slowly gaining market share over its competitor Google, has announced its latest feature: adaptive search. On the Microsoft blog, Adrian Cook explained the new feature as follows: Advertising Continue reading below “Whenever you do a search on Bing, the information you provide helps Bing understand […]
Here is what happened. Google suspected Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, was copying Google-like search technology to display certain results to users. The long version was fully covered by search expert Danny Sullivan, but the basic story is that last May some folks at Google started noticing that Bing was returning the same search results […]
On the left, Google searched for the correct spelling of “tarsorrhaphy” even though “torsoraphy” was typed. Bing manages to list the same Wikipedia entry at the top of its results. A Google sting operation reveals that Microsoft is copying Google results for its Bing search engine. The search giant alleges that Microsoft is using its […]