Microsoft’ssearchengineBing is looking to close the wide gap with Google. Bing will now pull more information and tools from other Web sites into its searchresults instead of offering links to other sites. …
Read Original Story: Bing's Better Results – ABC News
Microsoft confirmed Wednesday a partnership with computational knowledge enginewolframalpha that incorporates health and nutrition-related data into Bingsearchresults. It’s a deal the two companies have been …
Read Original Story: Microsoft Pulls wolframalpha Data Into Bing – Mediapost.com
Microsoft’sBingsearchengine signaled an increased willingness to go head-to-head with online search giant Google by partnering with computational searchengineWolframAlpha. Searchengine optimization (SEO) professionals will watch this development …
Read Original Story: Wolfram at the door: Bing steps up competition with Google – Brafton
Google has launched some new improvements to its movie showtimes search feature. These include more movie pages, genre filters, and a new map view. If you search for a movie and click the "more theaters" link in the showtimes listing, …
Read Original Story: Google Makes Improvements to Movie Showtime Searches – WebProNews (blog)
Earlier this week, Microsoft and mobile media company jiwire began a promotion that offers visitors to airports and hotels across the country access to free wifi in exchange for performing one search with Microsoft’s recently launched …
Read Original Story: The new paradigm: Seeing is believing – Media Life Magazine
Google Nov. 11 added the World Bank as a new source of statistical data to its searchengineresults, letting users mine an internatiional source for stats on such topics as electricity consumption per capita, or carbon dioxide emissions per capita. …
Read Original Story: Google Adds World Bank to Public Data Search – eWeek
On its Bing Blog, Microsoft has revealed it is working to bolt high-powered searchengineWolframAlpha and its own Googlealike, Bing. According to MS program manager Tracey Yao, one of the things the …
Read Original Story: Microsoft integrating Wolfram Alpha and Bing – TG Daily
Firstly Microsoft continues its polishing of the increasingly impressive Bingsearchengine with the announcement it will integrate "computational knowledge engine" WolframAlpha into its results. The implementation will be incrementally rolled out and …
Read Original Story: Bing Integrates Wolfram Alpha, Google Wants to BE the Internet – TrustedReviews
In today’s podcast: HP to buy 3Com for $2.7B; Microsoft to add WolframAlpharesults to Bing; and iphone attack code steals data. Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy 3Com for about US$2.7 billion, pushing forward the giant IT vendor’s strategy for …
Read Original Story: HP to buy 3Com for $2.7B – Computerworld
Microsoft is rolling out some enhancements to its Bingsearchengine, including some that rely on computational information delivered by WolframAlpha. Through the relationship with Bing, that means that people will be able to search for some …
Read Original Story: Bing to Use Wolfram Alpha Results – PC World