Bing and Ping: Share Search Results on Facebook and Twitter
Microsoft let everyone know about a forthcoming feature of their new search engine today. Bing and Ping, as they’ve lovingly dubbed it, will let you easily share search results with your friends on Facebook and Twitter as well as by email. At least at first, the sharing tools will only be available for searches that invoke “Instant Answers.” The examples given were football scores and airline flights, with other time-sensitive data and scenarios like stock prices, movie times, weather...
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Yahoo Shareholders Transfer $2.9 Billion To Microsoft Shareholders
Anyone wondering who got the better deal today (my detailed thoughts later) need only look at the stock movements of Yahoo and Microsoft. Yahoo dipped 12.08% to $15.14, knocking $2.91 billion off their market cap. Microsoft gained 1.41% to $23.80, adding…$2.94 billion to their market cap. So net/net about $30 million in new value was created today by the market, All of that plus everything Yahoo lost went to Microsoft. Yahoo got Binged, to the tune of $2.9 Billion. Oops. Our complete...
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Yahoo Got Binged
Today, Yahoo died as a search engine. If the deal with Microsoft is approved, what will replace it will be Bing, the search engine that Microsoft launched only two months ago. Within a few months time, Microsoft will go from owning 8 percent of the U.S. search market to 28 percent (comScore). That is still less than half of Google’s 65 percent, but it could give Microsoft a fighting chance in the search wars against Google. While the agreement was a long time coming, Bing was the cherry on...
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Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Official Press Release
Microsoft and Yahoo have now officially announced the search deal that has been rumored for long and finally confirmed by us and other news outlets yesterday evening. Official press release (emphasis ours apart from title and subtitles): Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape Global Deal Creates Better Choice for Consumers and Advertisers SUNNYVALE, CA and REDMOND, WA — 29 July, 2009 — Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users...
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Bing, Twitter, And A Backpack Full Of Cash (Hopefully For Beer)
You gotta hand it to the Bing guys, they just don’t stop coming up with kooky ideas to drive interest in their little search engine (or whatever you want to call it) that could. The latest is a new contest starting tomorrow on Twitter that will see one winner a day walk away with a Bing backpack and a $500 Visa cash card to use for back-to-school shopping. But reading over the fine print, it doesn’t appear that you need to use the money for back-to-school shopping. And in fact, the rules...
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