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Yahoo Trying to Trick Java Users into Switching Search Engines
Do you use Yahoo Search? No? Me neither. But Yahoo is hoping to change that via trickery. The internet giant has teamed up with Oracle to backdoor Yahoo Search as your default search engine when installing Java. The deal was announced by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on Wednesday and will…
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Gmail Now Officially Supports ‘Undo Send’ Feature.
The convenience of instant, permanent communication via e-mail is a technological marvel but one which has caused an abundance of embarrassing moments. Whether you’ve accidentally sent your spouse’s sister a romantic e-mail or insulted business contacts in a drunken rage, it’s difficult to forget each moment of shame. Thankfully, these…
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Bing Can Now Tell The Age and Gender of A Person
Microsoft’s Bing can now tell the age of the person by processing the image. It recognizes the face and analyzes them to determine their age. It was initially revealed last month at Microsoft’s BUILD 2015 where they showed off one of their Azure APIs by hosting a website that does exactly…
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Microsoft Reveals How Their Bing Algorithm Determines ‘Mobile-Friendly’ Websites
Microsoft first revealed their interest in mobile-friendly web pages and finding a way to figure out some guidelines for them last year. It seems that the company has been busy since then and finally revealed how they plan on determining which page is good or bad for a mobile device.…
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Will Microsoft Finally Buy HERE Maps?
Windows Phone users will understand the difficulty of choosing between Microsoft’s Bing Maps and Nokia’s HERE Maps when they need to use a good GPS app. While HERE Maps is a great app on its own, Microsoft’s alternative is still based on the HERE technology. Microsoft first attempted to buy…
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Google Accused of Suppressing Search Results and Stealing Content
Google has been accused of manipulating its search results to promote its own services, to the detriment of other businesses, leading to “real harm to consumers”, and illegally taking content from Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Amazon, a previously unpublished Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report has revealed. The FTC ended its investigation into…
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Microsoft’s Bing Correctly Predicted 84% of Oscar Winners
For the Oscars, the World Cup, Super Bowl and many other famous competitions, a lot of people and even animals like to predict the results. That has included octopuses, dogs and more dogs. Well Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, correctly predicted 84% of last night’s Oscar winners. Bing correctly predicted 20 of 24…
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Microsoft Update Takes Down Bing and Yahoo
The outages of search engines Bing and Yahoo! Search on Friday night has been attributed to a flawed piece of code uploaded to servers by Microsoft. The bad code also took down live.com, Microsoft’s Hotmail redirect, and Office 365 for a short period. Yahoo’s search facility is now powered by…
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Yahoo and Microsoft Compete to Become Apple’s Default Search Engine
As Google Search’s contract with Apple nears its end, Yahoo and Microsoft are both vying to replace it as Safari’s default search engine. Yahoo have already stepped into the vacant spot Google left at Firefox, becoming their search engine of choice, and now another lucrative partnership is due for negotiation…
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Shipping of ZOTAC ZBOX plus with Windows 8.1 and Bing Has Started
Zotac is most known for their great Nvidia graphic cards and barebone mini PCs. Listening to their users feedback, they’re now venturing into ready-to-use system as well. In a press release today, Zotac announced that the new “Perfect everyday computing mini-PCs with Windows 8.1 with Bing in four different flavours” have…
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Google Goes Down For 30 Minutes, Desktop Users Like Lost Sheep
On July 4th (yesterday) at approximately 10:30am GMT Google’s search engine went down for desktop users all over the world. The Google desktop search engine pages greeted stranded desktop users with a 500 Error Page with the usual “The server encountered an error and could not complete your request” error message.…
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Bing Rewards App for Windows Phone Launched, 5 Months after iOS and Android
Latest news from Microsoft point to having its Bing Rewards app being released (finally) for Windows Phone, having it come out for its own handset operating system almost 5 months after the release on Android and iOS. The company’s reward program has been around since 2010, having it be launched…
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Will Microsoft Sell Xbox or Bing? Microsoft’s CEO Responds
Will Microsoft sell the Xbox or Bing divisions? It has been a hot topic of speculation for as long as I can remember, particularly with regards to the Xbox division where the discussion over whether it is profitable or not underpins the “sell or keep” debate. Microsoft’s new CEO Satya Nadella responded…
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Microsoft Denies Allegations That It Censors Bing Outside China
Microsoft has been faced with some pretty serious allegations from cyber-censorship monitoring group Greatfire.org. They claim that Microsoft is deploying Chinese censorship on a “global scale” based on earlier research conducted by the Guardian newspaper in the UK. While Microsoft admit to censoring Bing search results in China, because they…
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Microsoft Adds Bitcoin Currency Conversion To Bing Search Engine
The controversial Bitcoin story takes another turn as software giant, Microsoft, adds Bitcoin currency conversion support to its Bing search engine. Bing is partnering up with Coinbase to provide currency conversion capabilities in Bing that allow you to convert major fiat currencies to and from Bitcoin. So if you’re interested in…
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