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Bing sheds beta tag in UK

Microsoft has, it might come as a surprise, announced the official launch of Bing in the UK on Friday.

"Following a period of trial and continued in-depth analysis of consumer usage and behaviour, the service has been put through its paces and Bing is now shedding...

Bing turns to Wolfram Alpha to help with search results

Wolfram Alpha has announced that it will be supplying Microsoft's Bing search engine with some of its results.

Following the launch of an API for developers to tap into the computational search engine, Wolfram Alpha has announced that it will now be making nutritional...

Google Social Search brings your friends to the search engine

While Google waits to implement Twitter search functionality into its organic search it is testing yet another social element; Social Search.

The new offering, which will launch in Google Labs shortly, promises to allow users to see results for queries from people...

Google shouts "me too" with twitter search deal

Google has moved in to steal Bing's thunder by announcing it will be adding tweets to its search pages.

"At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged",...

Twitter comes to Bing

Microsoft's digital head Qi Lu has confirmed, as rumoured earlier today, that it has signed a non-exclusive deal with Twitter and Facebook to provide status updates to its Bing search engine.

The two new services will allow users to use Bing to search tweets in...

Twitter and Facebook Status updates coming to Bing

Microsoft is about to sign up both Twitter and Facebook in a non-exclusive deal to help improve the Bing search engine.

The deal, which will see both sites integrate their real-time feed of status updates into the Bing search engine is, if true, expected to give...

VIDEO: Windows Mobile 6.5 Tellme function demoed street-style

Back in April, Microsoft declared that Windows Mobile 6.5 would offer "Tellme" functionality via a side button that would let users control their phones with their voice.

Fast forward to now as handsets with the new mobile operating system become available...

Bing takes 10% of US search market

Microsoft's Bing search engine has taken 10% of the US search market since it launched in May. Latest stats released by Nielsen suggest that Google is still growing, though, and that Bing is cannibalising other small search engines.

The big G's share of search...

Bing visual search declares war on Cooliris

Bing, Microsoft's search engine, has demoed a new "Visual search" tool which it hopes will help people find what they are looking for even when they are lost for the right words.

Called Visual Search, the new service allows you to "formulate and refine your...

Which search engine is top of the pile?

With the news earlier of Google's improvements to its search engine, we thought it best to put it through its paces up against the rival pack in the shape of the current Google, Microsoft's Bing, Mr Wolfram's Wolfram Alpha, Facebook's new search offering and the real-time...

VIDEO: Microsoft and Yahoo announce search deal

Microsoft and Yahoo have finally announced an agreement that will see the two giants team up against Google on web and search.

"In simple terms" the companies say Microsoft will now power Yahoo search via Bing, while Yahoo will become the exclusive worldwide...

Microsoft launches "Page Hunt" game

Microsoft has announced a little game that it's created to try and improve the search results on its Google competitor Bing. It's called Page Hunt, and asks you to guess what searches would lead you to a displayed page.

If the query you search for has the website...

Bing bigger than Digg and Twitter

Microsoft's Bing search engine has only been live for about a month, but already its traffic is healthy, with nearly 50 million unique US visitors in its first month.

That's more than social media luminaries Digg and Twitter, and bigger than news website CNN.com....

Bing exiting Beta in more countries

Microsoft has announced that its "decision engine" Bing will be emerging, blinking in the light, free from its beta tag in Australia, Canada, China, Japan and the UK. It's already out of beta in the US.

None of those countries currently have versions of Bing...

Bing Travel under fire for Kayak copy

The travel off-shoot of Microsoft's new search engine Bing, is coming under fire for being a little too similar to established airfare and travel site Kayak.

The similarities of certain areas of Bing to Kayak's look, feel and functionality is so much so that...

Microsoft and Google trade blows over Wave and Bing

Microsoft and Google have been trading blows over their recently announced products, with Microsoft calling Wave "anti-web", and Google dismissing Bing as something Microsoft does "about once a year".

First was Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie,...

Microsoft launches Bing Travel

Following the launch of the Bing search (or "decision") engine, Microsoft has announced the launch of "Bing Travel" in the US which it says "will help consumers make smart travel decisions through a variety of innovative tools and features".

Bing Travel combines...

Bing live, Microsoft warns over sex searches

As promised, Bing is now live in the UK, and you can go and try it by typing bing.com into your browser. However, before you spend too much time on the site, you might want to be sure that safe search is on.

Microsoft has issued instructions via Twitter on how...

VIDEO: Microsoft Bing search engine

Microsoft has announced that it's rebranding is search engine offering to Bing and with it released a video to show us what it's all about.

Although not all features shown in the video are planned for the UK version it's still interesting to see how Microsoft...

Bing officially announced by Microsoft

Microsoft has just officially announced its revamp to Live Search - Bing - proving Pocket-lints previous reporting correct. The new search service will be located at Bing.com, and roll out over the coming days to replace Live Search entirely.

Bing will launch...

Microsoft Bing going live 29 May

Pocket-lint has learnt from industry sources that Microsoft's revamp to Live Search - codenamed Kumo and now titled "Bing" - will be going live on Friday 29 May.

As previously reported, the new search engine will apparently be a significant upgrade to Live Search,...

Microsoft may be renaming Live Search "Bing"

Microsoft's relaunch of Live Search, as Pocket-lint reported on 21 May, looks to be the company's first really big attempt to unseat Google in its home territory for some time, as well as combat upstarts like Wolfram Alpha.

Some more details have emerged about...