Search Wars Intensify

The ongoing search war between Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. is intensifying as both companies battle to outpace the other in real-time search. First Microsoft stole the limelight Wednesday morning when it announced deals with both Twitter and Facebook to include...

Browser Wars: Firefox, Chrome Eat at IE

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) again lost a big chunk of market share last month as Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome continued to chip away at the world’s dominant browser, a Web metrics company said last week. IE plummeted by 1.3...

Bing Soups Up Search with Image-Only Results

Microsoft search engine Bing has launched a beta of Visual Search, a form of search that lets users sift through image-based results, rather than links. Once Silverlight is active, users can search across a number of categories — including shopping, sports or...

Microsoft Bing Pings Google

Bing lunges ahead to grab 11% of the search market in August. Microsoft Corp.’s Bing had a really strong August as the company takes another step in its effort to boost its place in the search engine business. The new search engine, which was first brought out...

Bing Creeps Up Steadily

Bing increased Microsoft’s share of the US search market by 1% last month and continues to slowly but steadily chip away at Yahoo and Google, according to an analysis conducted by StatCounter. Data for the month of June reveal that Microsoft (whose search share...