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Google Pays News Platforms in Australia to Prove No Law Is Needed to Make It Pay News Platforms

Australians suffering through anxiety caused by the looming threat of having to switch to Bing for their search results received a bit of welcome news on Friday. As the country’s lawmakers move forward on plans to force Google to pay news providers, the tech giant has launched a small paid news platform in Australia. For…

Tech News Rhett Jones Feb 5

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Australia’s PM Suggests Bing Adequate If Google Blocks Searches Down Under

It used to be a joke, but it’s not so funny anymore. Google is threatening to block searches in Australia if the country implements a compulsory profit-sharing deal that would force tech giants like Google and Facebook to pay media companies for their content. But Australia’s Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, isn’t sweating it. Morrison suggested…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 1

Amazon Wants Other Companies to Make Their Own Voice Assistants, Using Alexa’s Tech, Of Course

Building a smart voice assistant like Alexa is hard, according to Amazon, and we can probably take its word for it. However, that doesn’t mean that voice assistants are out of reach for companies like car manufacturers, for example. Amazon wants car manufacturers to make their own voice assistants, using Alexa’s technology, of course, and…

Commerce Jody Serrano Jan 16

Microsoft Bing To Replace Google As Default Search Engine On iPhone?

Uh oh. There’s talk that Microsoft Bing will be replacing Google as the default search engine on the iPhone. There’s certainly no confirmation, but this speculation does fit with prior reports of talks between Apple and Microsoft. Update: Maybe not? There are apparently also some sources who are saying that Apple and Microsoft are simply…

Tech News Rosa Golijan May 28

Mark Cuban’s Plan to Choke Google’s Super Powers

Musing on his blog, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has thrown out a crazy idea for Microsoft. Instead of spending billions promoting Bing, what if they paid the top 1000 sites a million bucks to de-list from Google? Is there anything more fun than sitting around, growing your hair, drinking a Bud while…

Tech News Danny Allen Nov 17

Bing Visual Search Could Be a Great Tool, Maybe, Someday

Oh, what a romantic vision Microsoft has here, with Visual Search: Imagine a search engine that served up results in images instead of text, and had easily-recognizable pictures, organized by topics and other parameters, which you could narrow down until you found what you were looking for. That dude, with the hair, in that movie?…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 14

Bing: The Fastest Way to Google

Have you guys heard about Bing? It makes Googling stuff super easy. Click to view[CollegeHumor]

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 26

Microsoft Bing Porn Content Gets Its Own NSFW Domain

Bing is so good at finding porn and displaying it that Microsoft will serve all the adult-oriented content from an specific domain. That way it will be a lot easier to filter: First, potentially explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate single domain, explicit.bing.net. This is invisible to the end…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 15

Microsoft Bing: 7 Quick ‘n’ Dirty Tricks

Oh, Bing. You’ve got a silly name, bad breeding, and scattershot marketing. It’s a damn good thing, then, that you’ve got some legitimately cool tricks up your sleeve. Here are a few of the best. https://gizmodo.com/confirmed-microsofts-new-search-engine-is-called-bing-5271981 Searching for desktop backgrounds is super easy in Bing—there’s even a special image size category for it. You can…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 4

Microsoft Rolls Out Bing Mobile Site, First TV Ad

Bing’s launch has officially reached stage two: Microsoft has rolled out a mobile version of the site, and debuted the search engine’s first TV ad. How are they? The ad: Crammed full of memes and hard on the eyes, it’s a little obnoxious! That’s sort of the point, though, and it does a good job…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 3

Microsoft Opens Bing Two Days Early (As In, Now)

Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has opened up to the public in a wide, if not total, rollout. It looks pretty good. We tested it with a familiar term, though, and something interesting happened: In the automatically generated top links for Gizmodo are months-old links to single posts about the second Bill Gates/Seinfeld ad and…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 1

Confirmed: Microsoft’s New Search Engine Is Called ‘Bing’, Opens June 3rd

Steve Ballmer just confirmed rumors that Microsoft’s new search engine, previously called Kumo, has been christened with the wonderfully onomatopoeic, possibly stupid name, “Bing”. UPDATE: And it’s coming next week. https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-new-search-engine-might-be-called-bing-5269894 From the AllThingsD interview, a peek into Ballmer’s brain: I’m not the creative guy, here …. short mattered … people like to ‘verb up’…

Tech News John Herrman May 28

Microsoft’s New Search Engine Might Be Called ‘Bing’

Microsoft is planning to publicly unveil their new GOOGLE KILLER, codenamed “Kumo”, to the public at All Things D as early as today. We don’t know a whole lot about it, but word is they’re calling it “Bing”, as in the cherry, the Crosby or the sound of Microsoft’s planned $100m planned advertising budget bouncing…

Tech News John Herrman May 26

Google Pays News Platforms in Australia to Prove No Law Is Needed to Make It Pay News Platforms

Australia’s PM Suggests Bing Adequate If Google Blocks Searches Down Under

Amazon Wants Other Companies to Make Their Own Voice Assistants, Using Alexa’s Tech, Of Course

Microsoft Bing To Replace Google As Default Search Engine On iPhone?

Mark Cuban’s Plan to Choke Google’s Super Powers

Bing Visual Search Could Be a Great Tool, Maybe, Someday

Bing: The Fastest Way to Google

Microsoft Bing Porn Content Gets Its Own NSFW Domain

Microsoft Bing: 7 Quick ‘n’ Dirty Tricks

Microsoft Rolls Out Bing Mobile Site, First TV Ad

Microsoft Opens Bing Two Days Early (As In, Now)

Confirmed: Microsoft’s New Search Engine Is Called ‘Bing’, Opens June 3rd

Microsoft’s New Search Engine Might Be Called ‘Bing’

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