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Google calls out Microsoft for trickery over Bing’s response to ‘Google’ search query

Searching for “Google” on Microsoft Bing right now (when logged out) brings up a search experience that looks a lot like Google, with a graphic akin to one of the… Read More

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What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in court about Google, Apple, search, and the future of AI

You may have read the juicy sound bites from Satya Nadella in Google’s antitrust trial this week, as the Microsoft CEO made the case that the search giant unfairly leverages… Read More

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Report: Microsoft considered selling Bing to Apple to replace Google as default search engine

Microsoft considered selling its Bing search engine to Apple in a deal that would have replaced Google as the default search offering on Apple’s devices, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Microsoft Bing adds AI chat history, exports, visual search results, new web integrations

Microsoft is updating its OpenAI-powered Bing search chatbot with several new features, and expanding its availability beyond the initial limited preview, looking to build on its momentum three months after… Read More

Microsoft confirms Bing’s AI-powered search chatbot is running on OpenAI’s new GPT-4

With OpenAI’s unveiling of GPT-4 today, its partner Microsoft acknowledged something that had been largely assumed but never confirmed: its AI-powered Bing search engine has been using GPT-4 all along.… Read More

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The future of the information economy is in flux as internet search industry enters new area

Editor’s note: This is a guest commentary from Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a Seattle-based organization at the forefront of natural language processing research.… Read More

As Google fights with Australia, Microsoft promotes Bing and says it wouldn’t threaten to leave country

Microsoft is wading into a dispute between Google and the Australian government by asserting that it would never threaten to leave the country, as Google did last week. Google is… Read More

Univ. of Washington Medicine exposes information of nearly 1 million patients due to database error

A database error late last year exposed the personal information of nearly a million patients, University of Washington Medicine said Wednesday. The healthcare network, which employs nearly 30,000 providers in… Read More

Investigation reveals that Microsoft Bing surfaces and recommends child pornography

Microsoft’s search engine has been serving and recommending child pornography, according to an investigation by TechCrunch and third-party researchers. After receiving an anonymous tip that illegal images of children were… Read More

President Trump wakes up, Googles himself and threatens to look into search giant’s ‘rigged’ results

Update, 1 p.m. PT: Trump threatened Google, Facebook, and Twitter in comments to reporters Tuesday afternoon. TRUMP: "I think Google is taking advantage of a lot of people. I think… Read More

Microsoft expands ad business beyond Bing search results with help from LinkedIn data and AI

Microsoft, which has quietly built a $6.9 billion/year advertising business through its Bing search engine, will attempt to expand its reach with a new advertising network that extends the Bing… Read More

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Baidu president calls AI the ‘single most transformative force of our time’

Baidu is known primarily as a search giant in China, but the company, which just opened an office in the Seattle area, is putting its full weight behind artificial intelligence… Read More

Baidu’s Qi Lu, former Microsoft exec, explains why Amazon’s Alexa took the industry by surprise

Qi Lu was a top engineering executive at Microsoft for eight years, leading products including Office and Bing, and shaping company’s artificial intelligence strategy under CEO Satya Nadella before leaving… Read More

Report: Amazon secretly acquired a Santa Barbara search startup to bolster Alexa

Amazon reportedly acquired Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Graphiq back in May, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Times, citing “four sources familiar with the deal but unauthorized to discuss it,” says the… Read More

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The most Googled terms of 2016 by state — find out what Trumped all that political news

It may have seemed like the only thing anyone cared about — or pretended to care less about — in 2016 was the presidential campaign and election. But an analysis… Read More

Paul Allen’s AI2 expands smart search engine Semantic Scholar to neuroscience research

Paul Allen’s non-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is expanding its flagship product Semantic Scholar to the world of neuroscience. The smart search engine, which helps scientists hone their… Read More

End of an era: Blucora completes $45M sale of InfoSpace search business

Financial services technology company Blucora completed the sale of its InfoSpace search business for $45 million in cash to email marketing company OpenMail LLC on Wednesday morning. Founded in 1996 by Naveen Jain,… Read More

Ba-da-Bing! Windows 10 gives Microsoft search engine a shot in the arm, boosting revenue and usage

Bing may seem like a forgotten entity, lost in Google’s dominance of the search engine world. But a look at Microsoft’s most recent financial results shows that’s not the case. Microsoft on Tuesday… Read More

The Dyrt on campgrounds: Portland startup targets millennials, crowdsourcing reviews from the outdoors

If the success of services like Yelp, Wikipedia, and YouTube prove one thing, it’s the power of user-generated content. But actually getting enough data from users to provide a useful tool… Read More

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Please read about the grandma whose Google search went viral. Thank you.

The internet is so taken aback by good manners that a tweet about a British grandma who used “please” and “thank you” as bookends to a Google search has achieved… Read More

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Microsoft analysis of search data could lead to method of alerting people to seek medical guidance

Searching the internet for more information on medical symptoms you’re suffering from may not be the best way to address a real health concern. But the data from those search queries has proven… Read More

DocuSign’s choice for new CEO backs out, wooed by ‘another company with unlimited resources’

DocuSign had a new CEO all lined up — and then something happened. The digital signature company had scheduled media briefings with its next CEO, in advance of an April 4… Read More

Google remembers information wants freedom, reverses decision to force 9to5google.com to change name

Hypocrisy. Google managers should have expected to see that word used a lot to describe their actions had they not reversed a decision that might have forced 9to5google.com to change the… Read More

Google brings quick answers to Inbox by Gmail search

If you’ve used Google lately, you’ve noticed those little information-packed card that show up at the top of some search results, giving you the exact answer to the question you had… Read More

Searching for logo news? Bing tweaks design for third time in six years

An Internet search on the evolution of the Bing logo returned some fresh hits Thursday as tweaks were made at the 6-year-old Microsoft product. It’s the third variation of the logo, which… Read More

Yahoo reaches search deal with Google after loosening Microsoft ties

Updated below with Microsoft statement. Yahoo just announced a search deal with Google, taking advantage an earlier revision of its longtime Microsoft search pact that gave Yahoo the ability to use… Read More

Microsoft giving Seahawks fans free tickets, memorabilia for using Bing search engine

Microsoft is giving Seahawks fans a reason to use its search engine over competitors. Bing teamed up with Seattle’s professional football team to launch a custom version of its Rewards program… Read More

Amazon appeals ruling in product search dispute, fearing a ‘flood of lawsuits’

Amazon is gearing up to fight a legal precedent that could keep online retailers from suggesting searches for products they don’t sell. In a new appeal, filed this week, Amazon’s lawyers… Read More

Startup Spotlight: OkCopay aims to be the ‘Zillow for healthcare’

Consider the last big-ticket purchase you made. Maybe you compared prices, read reviews, and utilized online tools designed to help consumers. Now imagine you could apply that same shopping strategy to… Read More

Microsoft Bing building ‘massive index’ of content from iOS, Android and Windows apps

Unlike web pages, the contents and capabilities of apps are usually hidden away from a search engine’s web crawlers, not accessible to searchers or potential users. Now, Microsoft’s Bing search engine wants to give… Read More

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