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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rupert Murdoch is pointing a gun to Google's head , and Microsoft is helping him pull back the trigger. For the past few weeks, Murdoch and his officers at News Corp. have been very vocal about their distaste for Google and their desire to lead other media companies in a boycott of sorts. Murdoch keeps threatening to stop letting Google index the WSJ.com and his other media sites, and wants other...
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LiveSide (Free subscription) | yesterday
A story in Sunday’s Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. have been holding preliminary talks to pull News Corp. content from Google, and for Bing to then pay a premium for that content. There’s quite a debate around the web on what such a deal would mean for Google, or Bing, for that matter. Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land doesn’t...
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Recovering Journalist (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The latest harebrained scheme to save the news business is for a bunch of publishers to cut their content off from Google searches and give Microsoft's Bing exclusive search-engine access to their news. Good luck with that. Aside from the...
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Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A month ago, we reported on early reports that Microsoft Bing Finally Figuring Out 301 Redirects? Yes, we ended in a question-mark because we were not too confident back then. Since the November '09 Bing Search update, more people are...
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Advertising Age - Digital (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Bing has a long way to go to catch Google, but six months after the site's launch, the numbers show it's heading in the right direction. The question is: Will its gains last once the ubiquitous, $100 million TV and web advertising stops?
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
According to a Financial Times report, Microsoft is in discussions with News Corporation and others about pulling content from Google The next battle in the search wars could be over access to news content. The FT reports that Microsoft – which has made increasing the market share of its Bing search engine its top online priority – has reached out to "big online publishers" in...
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pluGGd.in (Free subscription) | yesterday
A major flaw has been found in Bing. Thanks to Nicholas D. Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times. Kristof accused Bing for censoring results in simplified Chinese language searches and asked to Boycott Bing in his column to web users. This is not the first time Bing is facing [...] » Join our Google group | » Do check out Indian Startup Directory...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
We’ve been a little behind with roundup lately. Our apologies. Here’s the latest action: Barnes & Noble Nook sold out — The bookseller’s entry into the eBook reader market is under way. The B&N Nook is out of stockk on the company’s web site and it is now taking orders for devices that will ship next year. Analysts say that the Nook wasn’t ready for shipment...
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übergizmo (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
It’s no secret that Rupert Murdoch isn’t too happy with Google making News Corp content widely available to everybody, so what would Microsoft have to gain for a potential deal with News Corp? Well, word on the street is that Microsoft might be offering to pay News Corp to de-index its news sites from Google, which would probably drive folks searching for News Corp sites to Microsoft’s...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof: Boycott Microsoft Bing — Critics have accused President Obama of kowtowing to Chinese leaders, by failing to meet dissidents, toning down his criticisms and delaying a meeting with the Dalai Lama. On balance, I think that criticism i... Continue reading » Join the conversation about this story » See Also: Saturday Night Live Rips Obama Over...
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Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Google and Yahoo have long been lambasted for the censorship policies they employ in China to appease the CCP, particularly when Yahoo handed over email information to party officials in order to convict a Chinese journalist. Now critics have shifted their attention to Microsoft's Bing search engine. The site has been accused of sanitizing results - any searches in simplified Chinese are censored,...
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TechSheep (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof: Boycott Microsoft Bing — Critics have accused President Obama of kowtowing to Chinese leaders, by failing to meet dissidents, toning down his criticisms and delaying a meeting with the Dalai Lama. On balance, I think that criticism is premature: Confrontation doesn’t help with China and can hurt …
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dot.life (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
There's a fascinating story in this morning's edition of the Financial Times , which could signal a big shift in the balance of power between parts of the web and other parts of the media. The piece says that Microsoft has been in talks with the media giant News Corporation over a plan which could see the firm behind papers from the Wall Street Journal to the Sun being paid to stop Google searching...
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Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Flashing the cash to buy the news after Murdoch approach The Rupert Murdoch saga over Google making News Corp content widely available for people to "steal" has taken an interesting turn according to recent insider reports, suggesting Microsoft has been invited to enter talks with the media giant on the topic. The reports suggest that Microsoft, with an opportunity to get one over on search...
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TechRadar (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The Financial Times has suggested that Microsoft has held talks with News Corp to discuss paying the publisher to de-index its news websites from Google. With Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. seemingly set on a course of action that would see its content taken off of the world's biggest search engine, the FT is suggesting that Microsoft is adding its significant weight to the situation. Quoting a website...
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zaria | 11/18/2009
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lillyjose2008 | 07/21/2009
The new search engine from Microsoft looks nice. At least for the front page, which displays a different, nice picture every day. What is Bing all about? The home page fails to communicate visitors what the website is all about. While everybody know what Google or Yahoo! do, almost no one knows what the heck is Bing.com. I would have inserted a nice tag line below the logo, something like “Microsoft’s...
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Peter Brooke | 06/12/2009
While it remains to premature to state victory, Microsoft’s latest attempt at search, Bing, is off to a respectable start. At a whopping two weeks old, Bing has generated a nice bump in users, possibly thanks to spreading the word about the newly released search engine. According to comScore.com, Bing’s market share in the U.S. rose from 9.1 to 11.1 percent between June 2nd and June 6th, an impressive...