In the wake announcing Microsoft’s handover of its display ad business to AOL, it was confirmed that Bing is making money as a sustainable and standalone multi billion dollar business. While Microsoft did not release any specific figures with their ... Read more
Earlier this week, Microsoft tossed chum into shark infested journalistic waters when it announced its departure from the display advertisement business. Pundits, journalists, and analysts were elated by the news, creating a feeding frenzy of baseless predictions and doomsday prophecies ... Read more
Under the recently renegotiated agreement with Microsoft, Yahoo is permitted to look else where for some of its search results. Previously it used Bing exclusively. Search Engine Land recently spotted that Google is being introduced in to some search results. Under the agreement, ... Read more
Merely a couple of days after CEO Sataya Nadella emailed his employees saying the company would have to "make some tough choices in areas where things are not working," Microsoft announced it would be shutting down its own ad display ... Read more
Yesterday, WinBeta reported on the news that Microsoft is shutting down its own ad display business. In a deals with AOL and AppNexus, Bing will become their portfolio of sites' search engine while Microsoft gets out of the ad display side ... Read more
There has been a lot of speculation surrounding the Bing/Yahoo partnership. Much of the speculation comes from a lack of details regarding the specifics of the deal struck between the two companies. Perhaps prompted by re-negotiation terms from the two ... Read more
Google announced that to improve security for third party accounts on its Gmail app for Android, Gmail will now support Oauth for all Microsoft and Yahoo accounts. Oauth is an open standard commonly employed as a way for users to log into ... Read more
In a blog post announcing "Q2 2015 Progress Report On Our Product Prioritization", Yahoo has announced that among other things, it is shutting down its 8 year old Yahoo Maps program. There's no word on what Yahoo plans to do instead, ... Read more
Though the players in the search engine game are somewhat far apart in terms of market-share, competition is fierce nonetheless. Bing, the underdog, has been pushed by Microsoft into various different fields, with varying effects. Of all the partnerships sought ... Read more
Last week, Microsoft and Yahoo came to an agreement to continue their Search Alliance partnership for the remaining 5 years of the original 10 year deal. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer thanked Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella for his help in rejuvenating ... Read more
Last month Microsoft and Yahoo put an extension of their 10 year Search Alliance agreement on hold, after a 5 year milestone allowed Yahoo to potentially back out of the agreement if certain criteria weren't reached (they weren't). Yahoo, which ... Read more
New screenshots are making their way around the web that show Yahoo mobile search without the “powered by Bing” branding at the bottom. Business Insider has contacts close to the situation that add more depth and insight. While both Microsoft ... Read more
Microsoft is working on curating human answers in a new service called Bing Distill. The word distill means "to extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of." The service is simple -- use your know-how to answer questions people are asking on Bing. Help ... Read more
In 2010, Yahoo and Microsoft began a 10-year search partnership in an attempt to compete with Google’s dominance in the search market. Five years into the deal though, little has come of the agreement with Google maintaining its approximate two thirds ... Read more
Having been on something of a spending spree recently, Microsoft may be set to acquire Prismatic, a popular social news reader. It is no secret that Redmond has a rather a large rainy day fund saved away. Indeed, recently it ... Read more
Web searches are still the starting point for most internet users, and while Google still reigns supreme, their share of the US search market has gone down yet again. When the default search engine in Firefox changed from Google to ... Read more
This is second quarter earnings week for a number of technology companies. We told you earlier about Monday's Microsoft earnings, but there's been some Microsoft related news from other quarters, as well. It's well known that Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer ... Read more
Web search is one of the most common tasks undertaken on the internet today and Google.com remains the king. However, Mozilla recently announced they would be choosing Yahoo as the default search provider for users of Firefox 34. On the ... Read more
On Friday, Microsoft’s search engine Bing.com and several of its services including Outlook.com, Cortana, and portal.office.com suffered a brief outage. The Redmond-based company has now issued a statement outlining what triggered the outage. The company says that it pushed a ... Read more
Yahoo! had a decently designed Modern UI app for Windows 8/8.1, but it has seemingly been pulled for no reason. If you 'Bing' Yahoo Mail for Windows, you will find this link, which currently redirects to 'Sorry, this app is ... Read more
comScore’s latest search market numbers are out -- at least to some analysts -- the stats will please Microsoft. Bing's search share has reached a new high, whereas rival Yahoo’s performance has continued to trickle down. Though, bear in mind, ... Read more