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May 23, 2011

Monday, May 23, 2011 12:01 AM/EST

The Search Revolution Will Be Evangelized: Bing Director

Bing Director Stefan Weitz has a lot of great ideas for where search is headed. He's just playing on the wrong team. So is anyone else not allied with Google.

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September 5, 2010

Sunday, September 05, 2010 7:30 PM/EST

Microsoft Bing Minor Loser in Google, AOL Deal

Maybe Microsoft should take over MySpace and throw $100 billion building it out instead of marketing a search product that Google obscures with its powerful brand.

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August 2, 2010

Monday, August 02, 2010 8:32 AM/EST

Google Neutralizes Microsoft in Search by Aping Bing

With Google matching Bing's feature sets, there is no practical differentiator. That's a huge competitive advantage for Google and a big reason why Bing will never beat the Google gorilla.

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June 23, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 7:47 AM/EST

Bing Does Bang Up Job in Entertainment, Still No Match for Google

Microsoft's Bing team launched Bing Entertainment June 22 in Los Angeles. It's a nice vertical offering, but what is it worth at the end of the day versus Google?

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June 4, 2010

Friday, June 04, 2010 8:57 AM/EST

Google May Not Win AOL's Hand with Bing in the Hunt

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said at the D8 conference his company is talking with multiple potential partners to secure a new Web search deal. Maybe Bing should step in to relieve Google of its duties.

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March 26, 2010

Friday, March 26, 2010 8:07 AM/EST

Bing Director Dings Google's Real-time, Universal Search

Microsoft Bing executives remain respectful but critical of Google, which they believe is tackling the old search challenge, not user intent. Bing Director Stefan Weitz believes Google universal search and real-time search miss the mark.

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March 23, 2010

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:45 PM/EST

Google Maps Surfacing Hotel Prices to Battle Bing

Google's experiments with integrating more of its search advertising experience into Google Maps continued March 22 with the revelation that the company is now serving up prices for some hotel listings. Both Google Maps and Bing Maps are narrowing the gap between search and ads and the e-commerce transactions the search and ads are intended to facilitate.

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February 23, 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 3:19 PM/EST

Google, Bing Battle for Better Disambiguation, AI

Two fine articles on search engine technology landed in our laps to noodle over this week. One piece focuses on Google and the other Microsoft's Bing platform. Google is kicking tail and taking names in search now, but who knows whether the Bing guys or some other outlier we're not watching closely might swoop in with a new search engine construct that leverages AI like we've never seen before.

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December 3, 2009

Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:23 AM/EST

Bing Maps Bests Google Maps in Fun, if Not Functionality

Microsoft's Bing team trotted out a new version of Bing Maps Dec. 2 that eschews AJAX for the company's Silverlight technology. In short, Bing Maps' graphics are amazing compared with Google Maps. Google Maps obviously has many more layers than Bing Maps. But you can bet Bing will get there.

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December 2, 2009

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:42 AM/EST

Google, Microsoft Bing Trade Search Blows as They Exit 2009

Microsoft's Bing team and Google's search group are hosting big search technology events within a week of one another in San Francisco. It's fun to watch this Bing-Google slugfest, something we weren't able to enjoy until Bing emerged from the Live Search cocoon in June.

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