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All Things Bing: A Roundup of Reaction to Microsoft's Big News
Search Engine Watch Blog — The long-awaited unveiling of Microsoft's new search product finally came today at the D7 conference. Wall Street reacted positively with a 2.11% increase on MSFT, higher than the DJIA of 0.67%. Here's how the media and blogosphere reacted: First, here's a summary of Steve Ballmer's appearance at the D7 conference. From the Live Search blog: The sound of found: Bing! The Official Press Release 5 Things I Want to Know About Bing - PC World Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand (and other burning ...

Bing is Microsoft’s Latest Name for Search
StepForth Web Marketing Inc. — Bing, as announced today, is Microsoft’s latest variation of its search platform. The search engine is supposed to marry a myriad of search verticals to create a one-stop-shop for netizens. For example, according to this official introductory video the search engine will incorporate price comparisons and reviews for everything from flights, to hotels and electronics. It also appears to include a hefty dose of local content for anyone trying to choose a restaurant in their area or needing directions. Screenshots of the major ...

Just Bing and Wave!
SEO and Tech Daily — ... Bing it is for Microsoft's new search launch (with a whole family of ''Baby Bings' ... including the re-branding of numerous products, and Bing Travel born out of the Farecast acquisition ...) and from Google, it's ...

Microsoft Officially Announces its New Search Engine – Bing
Search Engine Journal — ... As expected,  Microsoft’s official announcement of its new search engine aka decision engine, aka vertical search engine aka Bing or whatever you may want to call it, has created ...

Microsoft’s new search engine : Bing !!
TheChetan.com Feeds — ... . Microsoft officially declared about there new search engine on 28th May and will be deployed worldwide on June 3. So now this is the next step of Microsoft in there war against Google . Just few months ago one search engine called ...

Social Media Insider: Wave Riding Over Bing
MediaPost | Online Media News — ... , a search engine with a few features that Google can easily copy. One of the problems with Bing is that it's anti-social. That's a dangerous proposition for a new digital brand. Microsoft says in its press release , "The explosive growth of online content has continued unabated, and Bing was developed as a tool to help people more easily navigate through the information overload." But that "explosive growth" is largely due to the proliferation of social media, while the tool is still largely standard search functionality. The release further notes that Bing, the "Decision ...

Microsoft Pundit Explains that Decision Engine Means Shopping Engine
Beyond Search — ... many of us pooh-poohed the Redmondians’ attempt to create a new niche in the search world that wasn’t already dominated by Google. But now I understand better why Microsoft characterized Bing this way: Microsoft consciously tweaked Bing to be a great shopping engine. “Decision engine” was a euphemism for shopping engine. ...

Keywords That Click
Search Engine People Blog — ... Indeed in their browser, Google Chrome, they even encourage you to forget about URLs and you can put either a URL or keywords in the single address field. Isn't that the natural way to get around.  Well not everyone agreed that keywords were the most useful way of surfing.  Remember Jeeves.  He suggested you should ask questions and the ongoing version, Ask, still recommends that. Now we have Bing, which launched itself as a decision engine. Bing is a new Decision Engine providing customers with a ...

Keywords That Click
Online Marketing Connect — ... Indeed in their browser, Google Chrome, they even encourage you to forget about URLs and you can put either a URL or keywords in the single address field. Isn't that the natural way to get around.  Well not everyone agreed that keywords were the most useful way of surfing.  Remember Jeeves.  He suggested you should ask questions and the ongoing version, Ask, still recommends that. Now we have Bing, which launched itself as a decision engine. Bing is a new Decision Engine providing customers with a first ...