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Would Bing switch really dent Google?

Media: PDA | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday

How much would Google be affected by news outlets removing their content and siding with Microsoft's Bing? The war of the search engines enters a new phase as Microsoft considers paying publishers to put their content on its search enging Bing - presumably in the hope they will do as Rupert Murdoch has suggested and remove it from Google. But how much would this actually hurt Google? A recent German...

Microsoft Bing’s Antonio Gulli Talks with Talis

Nodalities (Free subscription) | yesterday

Antonio has been working in the area of Web search for eleven years. He has recently joined Microsoft as principle developer manager based in London. Presenting in the The realtime web: Discovery vs. Search session on the 1st day of the Online Information 2009 conference, Antonio brings an insight in to the challenges of [...]

Will News Corp move its content to Microsoft's Bing?

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

According to a Financial Times report, Microsoft is in discussions with News Corporation and others about pulling content from Google The next battle in the search wars could be over access to news content. The FT reports that Microsoft – which has made increasing the market share of its Bing search engine its top online priority – has reached out to "big online publishers" in...

Microsoft Bing Cashback Not Always A Bargain

Information Week (Free subscription) | yesterday

Microsoft's search rebate program inflates some prices for online shoppers, claims a competitor.

Microsoft's Bing reportedly talking to News Corps about paying for content

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

is reporting that Microsoft has been talking to News Corps about paying for content if the company de-indexes its news sites from Google. Microsoft has been working on building up Bing as a viable search competitor to Google.News Corps, the company run by Rupert Murdoch, owns the Wall Street Journal and many newspapers around the world.The report said Microsoft is also in talks with other online publishers...

• Report: Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites - Cnet
• Microsoft and News Corp in Discussions to Remove Newspaper Content from Google - Mashable
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Microsoft responds to call for Bing boycott over China censorship

Ars Technica (Free subscription) | yesterday

With the launch of Bing in June 2009 , Microsoft's search engine is being scrutinized a lot more than it has in its past incarnations. For example, we noted that at launch, Bing was blocking search queries pertaining to sexual content in about 20 percent of the regions it was officially supporting. Also at launch, The New York Times wrote about how Bing was censoring results in Chinese-language queries,...

Boycott Bing, says the New York Times Columnist

pluGGd.in (Free subscription) | yesterday

A major flaw has been found in Bing. Thanks to Nicholas D. Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times. Kristof accused Bing for censoring results in simplified Chinese language searches and asked to Boycott Bing in his column to web users. This is not the first time Bing is facing [...] » Join our Google group | » Do check out Indian Startup Directory...

Why Murdoch Can Afford to Leave Google for Bing

Advertising Age - Digital (Free subscription) | yesterday

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- News Corp.'s talk about listing its sites exclusively on Microsoft's Bing sounds unpromising in several ways, but all of Rupert Murdoch's recent agitation and exploration are at least pushing one fact back to the fore: Web traffic only gets publishers so far in their quest for digital ad dollars. After a certain point, actually, traffic may not even matter.

Microsoft’s Bing Spews Chinese Propaganda

ChattahBox (Free subscription) | yesterday

(ChattahBox)— Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times is calling for a boycott of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, for what he terms “craven kowtowing” to the Chinese censors. He discovered in June, that conducting a search using simplified Chinese characters resulted in pro-Communist results, even if the search engine was used in the United States. [...]

Bing Censoring Chinese Search Results? Should There Be A Bing Boycott?

Search Engine Land (Free subscription) | yesterday

Boycott Microsoft Bing by Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times claims Microsoft is “sacrificing the integrity of Bing searches so as to cozy up to State Security in Beijing.” It is believes that Microsoft is censoring their search results to appease the Chinese government. Microsoft responded to this criticism with their blog [...] ....

Bing! ... Oh

Recovering Journalist (Free subscription) | yesterday

The latest harebrained scheme to save the news business is for a bunch of publishers to cut their content off from Google searches and give Microsoft's Bing exclusive search-engine access to their news. Good luck with that. Aside from the...

More Reports of Bing Correctly Handling 301 Redirects

Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | yesterday

A month ago, we reported on early reports that Microsoft Bing Finally Figuring Out 301 Redirects? Yes, we ended in a question-mark because we were not too confident back then. Since the November '09 Bing Search update, more people are...

Microsoft, Bing, and Murdoch: The Annoyance Factor

LiveSide (Free subscription) | yesterday

A story in Sunday’s Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. have been holding preliminary talks to pull News Corp. content from Google, and for Bing to then pay a premium for that content. There’s quite a debate around the web on what such a deal would mean for Google, or Bing, for that matter. Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land doesn’t...

Bing Tries To Buy The News

TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday

Rupert Murdoch is pointing a gun to Google's head , and Microsoft is helping him pull back the trigger. For the past few weeks, Murdoch and his officers at News Corp. have been very vocal about their distaste for Google and their desire to lead other media companies in a boycott of sorts. Murdoch keeps threatening to stop letting Google index the WSJ.com and his other media sites, and wants other...

Microsoft's Bing Gets 'Stickier,' Grabs More Local Dollars

Advertising Age - Digital (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Bing has a long way to go to catch Google, but six months after the site's launch, the numbers show it's heading in the right direction. The question is: Will its gains last once the ubiquitous, $100 million TV and web advertising stops?