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Yahoo has announced that it is blocking sex searches for all those on the Indian subcontinent. Its decision came after a similar statement from Microsoft’s Bling, er, Bing last week.   Latest reports suggest that Yahoo search engine, Microsoft’s Bing search engine, and Flickr, recently made alteration to their setting by which Indian users will not be able to switch off the safe-search facility. Same type of blockage is also expected in READ MORE...

Well today, when I saw that the likes of Google, buying premium text links on its primal rival, Microsoft Bing, I was astonished. The fact of the matter was when I searched for U2 songs on Bing, the first result within sponsored links that came up was, www.Google.com/Music New expanded search results when you search for musicians on Google! Look at the top link in the above image. You can search for any music band and add the term songs to it. READ MORE...

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 READ MORE...

According to ComScore and qSearch, Microsoft’s retaliation against Google search, Bing has gained significant market share reaching out close to 10% market share of U.S. searches, thats 2 large points in five months. Clearly Microsoft must be doing something right. The good part coming from it’s recent deals with twitter and Facebook and then going on towards nutritional data search integration with Wolfram Alpha. The loser here is of READ MORE...

Bing has fairly impressed many critics and as the holiday season approaches, Bing announces a $10K CashBack Sweepstakes contest in LA. So pack your bags and start purchasing. the offer is open only to legal residents of the US. Click on the image below, to enter the sweepstakes… Please Leave us your comments… READ MORE...

In 2008, Google got its logo on the rocket launching the GeoEye-1 satellite for collecting space-based imagery. This year, it’s Microsoft’s turn.     The Bing logo was recently spotted gracing the side of a rocket ship at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was the result of a new partnership with an imagery company called DigitalGlobe. Last week, the company was launching a new WorldView-2 satellite on a DeltaII rocket, the READ MORE...

I love the ad’s Microsoft is coming up with these days, be it for Bing or be it for Windows. Microsoft has made a difference not only to its product but its marketing campaign. And this time the strategy is focusing on the holidays that are coming soon, also targeting Microsoft’s own products such as the Xbox 360. So without further ado…   Please leave us your comments… READ MORE...

One thing I really love about Microsoft is that their ad’s are superb, they show things that attract the audiences when needed even considering the event or season. Halloween season is going on and Microsoft just released this ad, for people to use bing, its so called decision engine. So Without Further ado   Please leave us your comments… READ MORE...

Every day we all search and look fro music, particularly on Google, for our favorite artists, find that new album or iconic song etc. But we keep on searching it again and again browsing many pages here and there. An when we find it we don’t get to download it nor preview it in some sort of way. But wait Google brings a solution to you. Today, Google Unveils a new search feature that does just that by enabling you to search and more easily READ MORE...

Just a couple of day’s ago we covered up the new ASK.com “Who Wants a Deal? We Do, We Do!” commercials. Yes they were good indeed. But only a few days after IAC, the company behind Ask.com  has mentioned that they would be open to a sale of Ask.com search engine.   Now that a significant use , given that Microsoft Bing and Yahoo recently partnered up for a Single Search engine against Google. Ask.com currently has 4% market READ MORE...

One thing I have to compliment Microsoft is fro their advertising campaigns. They always make something so brilliant, so awesome that you cant ignore. Look at the ads for the brand new Windows 7 campaign. No wonder apple took a full swing at windows 7 with those ad’s. Today Microsoft launched its new Bing ads for the Australian market, and no wonder these commercials rock. So without further ado… I am sure with the boom of READ MORE...

The web 2.0 summit had many thing for us, from Google’s announcement to integrate Twitter to Microsoft’s new plans. But one thing that fascinated me very much was the direction and vision of on the greatest entrepreneurs of all time: Sergey Brin, Yes the happy go jolly guy of Google. His interview with John Battelle is for about 18 minutes or so. Brin Talks about twitter, Google, Bing, Google Chrome and many other things about how the web will READ MORE...