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Not With a Bing, but a Whimper, Redux

John Paczkowski in News on July 9, 2009 at 2:32 pm PT

Microsoft’s new Bing Internet search engine may have exceeded the growth of its rivals in June, but it didn’t do much for the company’s overall share of the search market. Bing grew faster than Yahoo and Google during the month. But sadly for Microsoft, it lost market share.

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Social Networking Returns to China

Sky Canaves, Lead Writer, China Journal, WSJ.com in News on June 9, 2009 at 12:35 pm PT

Yesterday, while China Web watchers were digesting the latest bit of news on the requirement that PCs sold in China include government-mandated Internet filtering software, the Web as we knew it a week ago quietly returned.

New From Microsoft: Live Search SearchGimmick!

John Paczkowski in News on October 1, 2008 at 9:52 am PT

Microsoft’s Live Search Cashback–“The Search That Pays You Back!”–must have had at least some short-term positive effect on Microsoft’s search business because the company is augmenting it with another rewards program. Now, in addition to receiving Cashback rebates on certain purchases of products found through Microsoft’s live.com Web search, users can win prizes as well.