Microsoft has shared video of what was a confidential, employee-only demonstration of new voice search capabilities in its Bing app for Windows Phones. The software giant’s research department (MSFTKitchen) has demonstrated a prototype version of a faster, more accurate and more intelligent version of the app, scheduled for launch in near future. According to the company the new Bing Voice search...

Pinterest, the popular social scrap-booking site has started rolling out data analytic tool for businesses. The new tool will show businesses  how many visitors it delivers to their websites, reports Reuters. This new tool will also give further insight about user activities on Pinterest like number of people pinning from a site or number of views each pin has received and so on. Should be...

The cellular phone was always a powerful, revolutionary tool. Add the internet to the mobile phone and you didn’t have to be a research analyst to say it was a combination that could shake things up.  Search companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing have seen consistent Year on Year growth. As the internet grew more accessible, people grew more and more reliant on Search in their...

The search engine business is thriving. However, two of the biggest search engines providers Google & Microsoft’s Bing have a completely different approach to cater to the queries. Source: Getty Images Current market leader Google has always taken initiatives to fine tune the search process. Their latest endeavor via Knowledge Graph is evidence that Google is trying to understand not only...

The fact that search engines can devise their own browsers to leverage searches and make it easy for users to get their information easily came to light when Google launched their browser Chrome. Bing picked up by tying up its search with IE. Yahoo was the only other search engine to not have its dedicated browser and used to rely completely on its toolbars embedded in other browsers. Now that has...

When you ask someone about Internet Search, by and large, most people associate it with one name, Google. Other competing search providers do exist, such as Yahoo, Bing and Rediff even Facebook could be a social search engine but Google continues to rule the roost. This holds true in our country too. The latest StatCounter Report has shown that in India, a stunning 97% of all searches take place...

Microsoft‘s Search Engine AKA Bing has tried time and again to shift people over from using Google for search. Microsoft tried to make it the default search provider on Internet Explorer on PC’s. Their entire Windows Phone lineup has deep Bing integration. Now, Microsoft has stated that they will be adding a whole new social element to Bing Search in what is being touted as the biggest...

The battle for dominance in Internet Search is over and Google has emerged as the winner. The only other worthy competitor, Bing from Microsoft is basically just cutting down Microsoft’s profit margins in comparison. So, how do we progress from here? Sell Bing to Facebook, says Nomura Analyst, Rick Sherlund who spoke on a Bloomberg Radio program. Microsoft built Bing so that Google could have a...

In the war of search engines comScore has revealed that Microsoft’s Bing has just surpassed Yahoo! Search. Bing & other MS sites fielded 2.75 Billion search requests as against Yahoo’s 2.65 Billion. In terms of US market’s share it was 15.1 % against 14.5% respectively. However, these two are nowhere near even when clubbed together against Google’s 12 Billion search requests or a whopping...

Yahoo is all set to implement a road map that aims at improving its service in India and snatching away market share from rivals. Yahoo has struggled to gain foothold in the country after losing out to Google and Microsoft. Not many people use Yahoo services, but Yahoo India is ready to change all that by introducing a plethora of new features. Just yesterday we reported that Yahoo unveiled the Flicker...