Microsoft Discontinues Fast ESP Support For Linux, Unix Platforms

Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since the search engine was launched in June 2009.According to an article on CNN Money, the company continues to lose $1 billion each quarter on Bing as it competes with Google...

The strategic search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo has been formally approved by law makers on both sides of the Atlantic as both scramble to catch up with market leader Google. The 10-year deal that both companies...

Microsoft has rolled out the much awaited Bing search engine application for iPhone and iPod Touch which was earlier available only on Windows mobile and Blackberry devices.  The app, which is available free of cost from the...

It seems that Microsoft and Yahoo have finally managed to come to an agreement on their proposed partnership in online search and advertisement fields and are likely to make an announcement today.The proposed deal will see...

In a bid to snare some breathing space in the web search domain and bolstering up the significance of real-time search, Microsoft has started adding Twitter updates to its Bing search results.  In a blog posting, Microsoft...

Comscore is the third internet analyst firm after Statscounter and Hitwise to credit Bing, Microsoft's successor to Live Search engine, with a revival at least in the US as it released a preliminary study. During the...

With the much anticipated launch of Wolfram Alpha scheduled for May 18, the creators of this natural language search engine have categorically stated that their search engine is not going to compete with Google and will instead...

Microsoft is heating up to the iPhone by making its Live search engine compatible with Apple's uber popular smartphone and stopped short of getting the search engine approved as an application for the the App Store. iPhone...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will discard withholding of internet search related information in Europe in the coming six months, but only after its competitors, notably Google and Yahoo, agree to the principle of...

Microsoft might be considering using a few hundred millions dollars it did not spend on the failed Yahoo acquisition to rebrand its Live search to Kumo, a Japanese word for "Spider" or "Cloud". Kumo.com, as well as dozens of...

Search Engine giant Google has released a new feature that enables its users to customise their own search results, a fundamental paradigm shift in the level of control that the search giant has on SERPs (Search Engine Result...

Microsoft Corp. has announced that its Live Search cashback scheme, launched in May to lure the web searchers, has scored impressively on all the three parameters - return on investments (ROI) for advertisers, percentage of...

comScore, Inc. released the first comprehensive study of worldwide search activity, based on data from its qSearch 2.0 service. comScore qSearch 2.0 offers the first panoramic worldwide view of online search activity, providing...

The internet's major search engines are following Google's lead in limiting their collection of information about web users and their searches. Microsoft, Yahoo! and Ask.com are taking action after controversial policy changes by...

Bill Brenner over at Search Security interviewed me for a piece on malware, patchguard and other things. Symantec and McAfee were particularly critical of Microsoft over PatchGuard, and they were called crybabies by some in the...