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Bing Updates Its Political Index
Bing has updated its political index. “Now you can view the collective sentiment of the population of each state regarding 10 top political issues. You can also compare yourself not just with each...
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Bing Is Testing a Twitter Carousel In Its Search Results
Bing is testing a Twitter carousel in its search results. Screenshots in the article. Filed under: Tweaks & Updates Tagged: Bing, Twitter
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Bing Bans Ads for Third Party Tech Support Services
Like Google, Bing has recently banned an entire class of ads. In Bing’s case, it’s ads for third-party tech support services. Apparently this is a quality issue thing. Filed under: Around the Search...
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Sogou, Bing Are Teaming Up
Sogou and Bing are teaming up. “Sogou, which operates China’s third-largest online search engine, said on Thursday that to satisfy Chinese curiosity for global information, it has teamed up with...
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Bing Users Will Get More Specific Alerts on Malware
Bing’s malware warnings are about to get more detailed. “Bing users who are about to venture to Websites that pose a risk to their security are already familiar with the generic malware warning that...
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Using Search Engine Queries to Diagnose Pancreatic Cancer – Bing Research
Let’s pause for a moment while I try to wrap my head around this: Bing researchers are figuring out if people have pancreatic cancer based on their search engine queries. “This achievement has now been...
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Supreme Court of India Blasts Search Engines for Prenatal Sex Test Ads
The Supreme Court of India is coming down on search engines for some of their advertising. “Supreme Court today pulled up online search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for failing to check...
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Paris High Court: Bing, Google Do Not Have to Scrub Torrent-Related Results
The High Court of Paris has ruled that Google and Bing do not have to scrub torrent-related results from their search results. “Google and Bing are not required to automatically filter ‘torrent’...
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Bloomberg: Microsoft’s Bing Isn’t a Joke Anymore
Bloomberg: Microsoft’s Bing Isn’t a Joke Anymore When was it a joke? “Bing is on track to generate roughly $5.3 billion in revenue for Microsoft’s fiscal year ended June 30, based on the pace of sales...
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Bing Serves Up Its Own Olympics Offerings
Bing’s adding its own set of Olympics stuff. “Bing is getting into the Olympic spirit, bringing the 2016 Rio Olympic Games into its search results and launching its ‘Events to Watch’ feature,...
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Bing Updates RTBF Policy
Bing has updated its RTBF (Right to be Forgotten) policy. “Going forward … Bing will also use location-based signals (e.g., IP addresses) to delist the relevant URL on all versions of Bing, including...
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Bing Maps Consigns Entire City to the Wrong Hemisphere
Hey, Bing can’t let Google Maps make all the goofy errors. In fact, Bing’s one-upped it by putting an entire city in the wrong hemisphere. “A search on Bing Maps for ‘Melbourne, Victoria, Australia’...
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Crowdsourcing Blamed for Bing Translation of Arabic “Daesh” into English...
Reason #3412 you don’t want to completely rely on crowdsourcing: Microsoft apologises after Bing translates ‘Daesh’ into ‘Saudi Arabia’. “Microsoft has been forced to apologise after its Bing...
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Bing Updates Its Autocomplete Game
Bing has updated its autocomplete game. “Microsoft recently upgraded Bing Academic Suggestions using new technologies from the company’s Technology and Research team and the Bing semantic graph....
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Thurrott On Bing’s Offerings For the Upcoming Election
Thurrott has an overview of Bing’s offerings for the upcoming election. “You probably haven’t seen the news, but there’s a U.S. presidential election coming up, and Microsoft has launched a new Bing...
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Bing Teams Up With TuneIn
Bing is teaming up with TuneIn. “Bing announced today it has partnered with TuneIn, an online subscription service for audio broadcasts. Searches for ‘online radio stations’ on Bing will now serve up a...
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Did Bing Maps Include the Image of a Gunshot Victim?
Ugh, some bad stuff caught by Bing Maps. “In Bing Maps, a street view at the corner of Pennington Avenue and Hazel Street in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood shows a single police car, two officers,...
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Search Engines Give the Scoop on Hot Halloween Costumes
Wondering what the hot Halloween costumes are this year? Search Engine Journal’s got the scoop. “According to the NRF [National Retail Federation], 34 percent of people turn to search engines for...
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Bing Wants to Get Holiday Hours Right
Bing wants to get holiday hours right. “Prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, Bing announced it was helping business owners display the correct hours of operation via their local search listing on...
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Search Engine Land: Bing gets in shape with search updates for exercise &...
Search Engine Land: Bing gets in shape with search updates for exercise & healthy recipe-related queries. “Bing has added new search updates aimed at helping its health-conscious users.”Filed...
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