It is no secret that Microsoft is doing whatever it can to eat away at Google's immense market share of the search market, with Bing being its most ambitious effort yet.

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Bing announced Wolfram Alpha results for nutrition searches, more in-depth weather results, enhanced hover previews, better maps, and turned MSN Video into Bing Videos.

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Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google.

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Rupert Murdoch, owner of the News Corporation, announced in a Sky News interview that he's thinking of removing his websites from Google's indexing spiders that crawl the Internet...

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A few hours ago Internet search mogul Google removed the Pirate Bay frontpage from its search results. According to the company this action was taken after it received a DMCA takedown request, which is odd since there are no torrents to be found on the homepage of The Pirate Bay.

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THE MICROSOFT EMPIRE, upon which the sun never sets, apparently holds regular "Screw Google" meetings in Washington, DC, which are meant to come up with new ways to give the Internet search and advertising leader a bunch of fives. According to Daily Finance, the entire meeting …

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"Microsoft is at the center of a group of companies who see Google as a threat to them in some combination of business and policy," said a source familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to avoid retribution.

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How Google rebooted the media and democracy itself

What is more important: Your vote in last election or your activity on the Internet? I'm not so sure any more but the the latter is beyond dispute growing in importance. And here's why.

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It may be far too early to pop the champagne on the Microsoft campus, but a celebration with a round of beers — the good stuff — may be in order.

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Illustration by Robert Neubecker. Click image to expand.Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information.

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Google has unveiled a new version of its search engine which it says will be faster and more accurate than ever before.

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Reader Osno points us to the latest in misplaced liability rulings... this time in Argentina.

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The head of Google's Web-spam-fighting team, Matt Cutts, warned last week that spammers are increasingly hacking poorly secured websites in order to "game" search-engine results.

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Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang now looks even more foolish than he did when he turned down Microsoft's original buyout offer. This isn't a better deal, except for Microsoft, which is saving billions.

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Microsoft and Yahoo have reached an agreement on a search and advertising deal, with an announcement expected as soon as today, according to US media reports.

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A company that provides "instant-on" computing will bring "instant search" to the PC for the first time.

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Do We Depend Too Much on Google (and Other Search Engines) for Research?

I love search engines! And among the ones I've tried I especially love Google's search engine! It is much faster and easier to research many topics, to quickly check trivial facts, etc., using Google than it is to go to the library and look something up (or to call a libraria …

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Microsoft Corp., struggling for years to challenge Google Inc., says users are warming up to its Bing Internet search engine.

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Google is the most powerful search engine available, but when it comes to searching for something specific, Google may churn out general results for some.

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When asked about online privacy, most people say they want more information about how they are being tracked and more control over how their personal information is used.

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Has anyone tried using Bing?

I've been experimenting with Bing.com Microsoft's new offering - and shock horror, I like it!

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Microsoft has used attack ads to go after Apple, and now it has Google in its sights.

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"Wolfram Alpha, the latest alleged Google killer, is not a search engine. Rather, physicist and software entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram's long-awaited new Web project is a "computational knowledge engine." The difference is important.

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Wolfram Alpha is indeed a search engine, but it's not pretending to be Google, and unlike so many of the search engines that I've had pitched to me over the years, it isn't trying to do "search". It's actually doing something more subtle: it's doing semantic search.

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Web giant Google has unveiled new products that it says will push search in a new direction. Google is using so-called semantic web technology to leverage the underlying data on websites to enhance results.

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