Jul
06
Baidu, the largest search engine in China, has partnered with Microsoft’s Bing to provide the English language search support. China’s internet population is 477 million and there are over 10 million searches per day conducted in English. Baidu acknowledges, however, that those English language searches are not handled very well, so the 10 million number [...]
May
04
A surprise visit at the BlackBerry World Conference was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The surprise was to announce a partnership between BlackBerry and Bing. Not only will Bing be the default search and maps engine of BlackBerry products, but it will also be deeply integrated into BlackBerry’s new operating system. The integration is to make it easier for [...]
Mar
18
Online advertising is now a $16 billion per year industry, but Google’s Schmitt thinks that number can reach as high as $200 billion. That growth will be led and caused by display ads, which are able to update in real time even if a user has remained on a single web page for quite some [...]
Mar
09
Yahoo called the fight and now it is down to just Bing and Google in the search engine wars. As of now Google is clearly the leader, as most searches go through Google. Google also seems best poised for the mobile search wars, which are soon to begin. However, Microsoft is a big dog in [...]