The popular Search engine giant Yahoo will soon change its name to ‘Altaba.Inc’. The reason behind this is that the company is going to sell its internet business which includes its advertising tools, websites, mobile applications and e-mail services to Verizon. Co-founder David Filo and CEO Marissa Mayer will leave the company after that, said
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Microsoft jazz up Bing, comes up with a refreshed look
Bing has made made to the news again and this time its even better. Microsoft has revamped its much sought after search engine Bing with a few new as well as renovated features on its home page, the company stated. Social search options, ‘page zero’ tool and adaptability across all mobility devices are among the
Continue readingMore people info introduced to Bing Search autosuggest feature
With auto-suggestion feature arriving in Bing Search few days back, the search engine division of Microsoft has announced its first tweaking to the newly added feature. Bing Search, when searched for people in it, will provide information about the person in the drop down with search suggestion. The feature is a part of Bing’s Snapshot
Continue readingYahoo follows Bing way, implements pop-up notification for child abuse in its Search Engine
Yahoo has also followed the Bing way and the company has started throwing pop-out errors to British internet users searching for child pornography and abuse. The changes came after Britain Prime Minister, James Cameron, requested top notch internet companies to fight aggressively against child abuse and remove all illicit contents from search results. Google had
Continue readingBing Search introduces pop-up service for child abuse images in the UK
With a strong notion coming from people as well as governments to curb child abuse and pornography online, Microsoft has come up with a first-of-its-kind technology for its search engine, Bing. The search engine has become the first to introduce a pop-up warning to users in UK who searches for images of child abuse online.
Continue readingAutosuggest shows up in Bing Search, to challenge Instant Search and Knowledge Graph
Microsoft had been betting big on its exclusive search engine , Bing Search and this time Bing Search has stepped up the level of search suggestions, autocomplete and semantic search. Bing Search has added auto complete to its search tool along with addition of Bing snapshot search, an addition resembling to Google’s Knowledge Graph. The
Continue readingDesktop Search Activity gets fourth straight month of double-digit gain, up by 12%
With a positive note, desktop search activity seems to rebound with users thronging to search their keywords in desktop applications. According to the latest report from ComScore, desktop search stood at 12 percent year-over-year in the month of June with a ‘core’ search count of about 19.2 billion. This is the fourth straight month where
Continue reading‘Halalgoogling.com’, new Muslim search engine launched
Although internet was never confined to anyone specifically, but lately it has been quite evident with a few developments in the world wide web like the Muslim Search engine that has been launched and interestingly it has been developed specifically to block forbidden contents as per Islamic law. According to a press release, Halalgoogling.com,
Continue readingBing brings more control for Webmasters, can change Deep Links now on
Bing has recently announced changes to deep links management for its search engine with added control for webmasters to specifically remove deep links that Bing algorithm automatically generates to be shown under the main search results for a webpage. Webmasters can now on log in to Bing Webmaster Tools to remove the Deep Links that
Continue readingMicrosoft bringing Bing Ads To Windows 8.1 Search this year
Seems like competition for advertisement market is stiffing up and it might prove to be dis-advantageous for tech giants like Google which currently dominates the lucrative search advertising segment. Microsoft has announced today that it will add its Bing Ads system to the new version of windows, WIndows 8.1, which is due to launch later
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