Microsoft and Yahoo announced on Thursday that they’re getting married! Well… not literally. The two companies are coming together in an attempt to rival search-engine giant Google. More »

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Even though Google and Apple has had a rocky relationship over the past few years, Google’s mobile engineering executive Vic Gundotra insists that “Apple is a very close and valuable partner.” Recently, there was gossip that Steve Jobs flatly proclaimed privately that he “hates” Google CEO Eric Schmidt, whose company supposedly refrained from allowing multi-touch on its Nexus One so as not to anger Apple. Last week, an OTA update enabled Google’s smartphone to perform multi-touch in Google Maps, Browser, and Gallery. More »

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Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article that may end up being a watershed moment in online history. According to the report, Microsoft is hoping to create an alliance with News Corp, one of the biggest news conglomerates in the world, to remove news links from Google and bring them over to Bing.

Essentially it’ll make Bing the only search engine to offer any news stories from News Corp sites. The story highlights a few advantages and disadvantages of the move from the perspective of Rupert Murdoch, who controls News Corp, Google and Microsoft. We break them down for you. More »

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Bing.com, Microsoft’s latest search engine, has continued to grow for a second straight month while Google has continued to decline. According to comScore, Bing had a 8.9 percent search queries in the U.S. in the month of July, which is a 0.5 percent increase since June and a 0.9 percent increase since May.

Google and Yahoo both lost market share during the month of July. Google and Yahoo lost 0.3 percent market share, with down to 64.7 percent and Yahoo down to 19.3 percent. Microsoft and Yahoo have both recently announced Bing as the main search engine for both companies, which equals a 28.2 market share, which is not much higher than the 28 percent share in June. But will this increase for the second straight month help Bing when they take on Yahoo’s loss of share? More »

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Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, is gaining momentum, ready to take on Google and is actually quite good. Better than Google at some things. One of the problems that many had with Google was real-time searches, but Bing has taken a stride ahead of Google in that department by attempting to add Twitter searches. More »

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