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Exclusive: Seeking Better Search Results, eBay Finds Experts at Bing and Facebook

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 31, 2011 at 1:00 pm PT

EBay has hired two search experts away from Facebook and Microsoft Bing as it prepares to roll out new features on its site, we have learned.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Bing!

John Paczkowski in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 8:10 am PT

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the software giant’s relaunch of its search offering, dubbed Bing, onstage at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference. Bing is Microsoft’s biggest and priciest attempt yet to catch archrival Google and Yahoo in the search business. It is a market where the typically dominant Microsoft is a mouse in comparison. But, no surprise, that did not stop Ballmer from doing some roaring about Bing.