10 Things To Learn About Microsoft Bing
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Bing, Microsoft's latest attempt to topple Google and Yahoo, is set to be launched on the 3rd of June in the UK but it is already available in beta mode. We went through the website and here are ten things we learnt about Microsoft's decision engine. (1) Bing's homepage is 47 percent heavier than Google's at 37.3KB. This is significantly less than Yahoo the homepage (470KB), Yahoo the search engine (75KB) or Wolfram Alpha (212KB). This means faster loading times in...
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