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Guess I Can’t Use My Bing Rewards to Buy a New Mac, Then…

John Paczkowski in News on September 22, 2010 at 3:01 pm PT

With its share of the U.S. search market greater than Yahoo’s and increasing, you’d think that Microsoft would have little use for the gimmicks it’s relied on in the past to offset the public’s indifference to its search offering. Particularly since they never seemed to do it much good.

A Bing Bug? If Not, How Did This Dude Beat Out Megan Fox and the Even Prettier Robert Pattinson for Most-Searched Celeb?

Kara Swisher in News on November 30, 2009 at 5:25 am PT

Since Bing only debuted at mid-year (and at the D: All Things Digital conference too), BoomTown is willing to cut it some slack. Until the Microsoft search service revealed on its blog last night that Perez Hilton–the irksome gossip blogger–beat out “Transformers” hottie Megan Fox and “Twilight” hottie-er Robert Pattinson for the top celebrity searched using Bing in 2009. Clearly, Bing’s algorithm needs some tweaking by real people.