Google real-time search adds Facebook status updates
Posted on February 25, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Public status updates from Facebook Pages now in Google’s real-time search. The new features will be rolling out in the next few days –this time is just available globally in English. “Relevance meets the real-time web,” Google says.
The key thing to remember, however, is that Google has much more limited access to Facebook’s real-time data than its competitor, Bing. Microsoft has deeper ties to the social network, as an investor in Facebook and as a search provider for the site. Microsoft has the ability to index public status updates, while Google’s access is limited to updates from Pages, which are vehicles for marketing rather than personal content.
[via VentureBeat]
Yahoo, Bing better than Google for #iPad image search reveals
Posted on February 5, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
With so much excitement around the device, the disappointing part is that though a week has passed since we saw the first iPad unit, Google Images still has no clue about the existence of this Apple device.
Is Bing a search engine? No. It’s a decision engine!
Posted on December 22, 2009 by Budi Putra in Tech
Just discovered this and took the screenshot. Awesome!
Bing is not that popular for Firefox
Posted on December 17, 2009 by Budi Putra in Tech
Seems Microsoft’s Bing is not popular enough for Firefox users, according to a Mozilla exec. That’s why an add-on is required to add Bing as a search option from within Firefox. Another home-work for Microsoft’s search engine to fight against Google.
If you download a fresh copy of Firefox, you’ll note that the default search engine is not whatever you already have picked in all your other browsers. Instead, Mozilla chooses Firefox’s default search engine, and the list of search providers in the accompanying drop down menu, based on their popularity. Thus, Bing isn’t one of the choices.
Bing is not that popular for Firefox
Posted on December 17, 2009 by Budi Putra in Tech
Seems Microsoft’s Bing is not popular enough for Firefox users, according to a Mozilla exec. That’s why an add-on is required to add Bing as a search option from within Firefox. Another home-work for Microsoft’s search engine to fight against Google.
If you download a fresh copy of Firefox, you’ll note that the default search engine is not whatever you already have picked in all your other browsers. Instead, Mozilla chooses Firefox’s default search engine, and the list of search providers in the accompanying drop down menu, based on their popularity. Thus, Bing isn’t one of the choices.
Microsoft’s Bing app debuts on iPhone
Posted on December 16, 2009 by Budi Putra in Tech
Microsoft’s Bing, that recently hit 10% of market for the first time –according to comScore’s November search stats– has finally made an iPhone app. “It’s a sweet little irony, since Microsoft and Apple have been frenemies over the years,” as by Kara Swisher of All Things Digital wrote. Microsoft has released Bing apps for Windows and BlackBerry devices. The next logical step for Bing app would be the Android version.
