Last week at the Search Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft showcased a brand new way to search that is designed to help you interact with friends and take action without compromising the core search experience. Starting today, people in the United States can give it a try at www.bing.com/new.   As discussed last week, Bing now integrates search and people in our social networks through a dedicated social “sidebar.” With sidebar, Bing brings together the best of the web, with Continue Reading

  Last week Facebook launched a new set of advertising verticals for its site and today Microsoft is Facebook’s first customer to move forward for advertising on that vertical termed as logout ads. When you logout of Facebook, you could soon be greeted with an interactive Bing ad: you’ll see Bing’s trademark wallpaper photo as well as an active search box, which opens a Bing search results page in a separate tab when you search for something.   Although Logout ads seem crazy Continue Reading

  Everyone almost remembers the fiasco made by Google last month based on the Search Plus your world AKA Social Search 2.0. While companies including Facebook and Twitter reacted to damn Google’s attempt to promote Google+, Microsoft had been working silently on key social features to help people get more social based from any network. And who can forget the famous slap fight on twitter by PR heads of both the companies. Even Google CEO Larry page announced a threat to employees that whoever Continue Reading

2009 was a fabulous year, from many memories of Windows 7 to Google Chrome OS release. From Bing gaining 10% marketshare to rumors of the Apple MAC tablet. It was all fantastic. But now 2010 is here, a new day, a new start a new beginning. So from all of here at The Technology Cafe, we wish you a very warm fuzzy 2010, which we pray would be filled with joys and happiness. We especially pray for those who have lost their lives in tragic events and pray that the world may become a much more peaceful Continue Reading

Just yesterday we talked about Microsoft Bing gaining 10% market share in the US, after it's release five months ago. Today we see again that bing is constantly trying to update its features which might help users to find relevant data quicker and easily with the launch of  "latest posts from news sites" feature. As you can see, whenever you put a query related to a news site in the bing search bar, those sites, or feeds which have been updated very recently would pop up in the section dynamically Continue Reading