Talk about an iron grip on search. To research this column comparing Google’s venerable search engine with Microsoft’s upstart Bing, I Googled “Bing versus Google.” It didn’t even occur to me to Bing the search. In a nutshell, that’s Microsoft’s problem. The...

Bing is now doing Twitter. The recently launched Microsoft search engine is now allowing users to search for various kinds of real-time data, including tweets from Twitter. Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft’s Search Technology Center, wrote on the Bing blog Wednesday that the search engine...

Twitter messages from prominent writers like All Things D's Kara Swisher are now in Bing search results. (Credit: Bing) Microsoft is trying to get a leg up in the real-time search wars by adding Twitter messages to search results. Bing will now surface results for certain celebrities (leading to...

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 30, 2009 — Lucid Imagination, a commercial company dedicated to supporting open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies, and ISYS Search Software, a global supplier of information access and discovery solutions for mining intelligence and corporate knowledge, today...

Since Twitter has become such an important part of the social-networking world, it only makes sense that developers would create a variety of browser extensions that give you access to the microblogging service’s features. If you don’t like extensions, or you want to be more social with...

Digitalsmiths , the video distribution and analysis platform that powers TheWB.com , TMZ , and a number of other popular sites, is rolling out a new product suite today dubbed VideoSense 2.0. The new suite includes a number of features that will make it more appealing to content owners looking to distribute...

Twitter's own search engine. (Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) To follow what’s happening in the real world, you need real-time search. Google doesn’t have it (yet). Neither do Bing nor Yahoo . But a number–a large, growing number –of new search services scan Twitter...

As Microsoft tries to take away market share from Google with its new search engine, Bing , it is battling Google feature by feature. One feature where Microsoft seems to be edging out Google is with displaying recent search trends. This may not be a major feature, but it shows a weakness in Google’s...

In honor of the iPhone 3G S launch today, I thought I’d point out a humorous little deal circulating around the web. Apparently, you can use Microsoft’s Cashback program that it runs through its search engine (and now through Bing ), to get a healthy 35% discount off of the device. Depending...

Gerry Campbell, former senior vice president of search for AOL and a former president of search and content at Reuters, and his team of technology veterans have brought a different kind of search to users. On Thursday, they launched the beta version of Collecta, a real-time search service that allows...

Whether the rumors about Google working overtime to reverse-engineer Microsoft’s Bing “decision engine” are true or false, one thing is certain: Bing is still booming. During the second week of its public launch, comScore data shows Microsoft continued to increase its positioning in...

Intel is simplifying its branding strategy for microprocessors by limiting the number of names it uses in its marketing campaigns to just three chip classifications from the company’s Intel Core lineup. Older PC processor names such as Pentium and Centrino will be phased out as these earlier chips...