Not all search engines are created equal—and when it comes to Microsoft's Bing, it seems that means malicious websites are happily returned far more often than by Google.

As The Register learned, in part of an ongoing effort to turn Facebook into its own, closed little ecosystem, Zuck's empire has closed off public events to, well, the public. Account-holding stalkers only, please.

If you've used the newly arrived Windows 8, you may have noticed that among the army of colorful tiles, there's something important that's conspicuously absent: Google. Microsoft is pushing its own Bing and Internet Explorer hard, but if that doesn't cut it for you, Google put out this catchy little video on how to…

Google may be the big name when it comes to Internet search, but Bing is certainly not giving up the fight. Now it's the default search engine on all the new Kindle Fires, which will give it yet another foothold on its long, hard climb.

Well here's a strange little feature that has popped up as a result of Microsoft and Facebook's alliance: the ability to search through the photos of you and your friends. If you ever wanted to find that one photo a friend posted, but can't remember what album it was in, but can remember what the caption said, you…

If Google's angle is that it actually works really well, Bing's is that it's a "social search engine." And the latter's new Friend Tagging feature lives up to that promise, tapping the social network you actually use to aide your search results.

Bing's homepage is wonderful today. Right now, it livens up your basic search page with an animated timelapse of concentric startrails at Monument Valley in Utah. It's gorgeous. But more importantly, it's the kind of tasteful-but-futuristic design we want to see more of.

Bing Maps just added 165TB of new aerial images—more than doubling the 129TB previously available. The update covers 15 million square miles in North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia. Besides satellite imagery, additions include exclusive aircraft photography. You can explore the whole release …

We saw this coming, and we're glad it's true: Windows Phone 8 will replace Bing Maps with Nokia's stellar mapping tech.

Microsoft rolled out a completely revamped version of its Bing search engine today that promises to provide better and more relevant results from a wider array of sources than Google. And without being nearly as annoying.