Microsoft is unlikely to give up Bing as it is holding its own as a legitimate search engine contender.
Of the four categories, however, Bing is picking up in the two that improved the most, in terms of spending.
Instead, they choose to shroud the whole process in mystery even with such high-profile partners as Microsoft, which has offered up its Bing Maps software for the program.
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Now, they may have different characters and soundtracks, right, but whether you grew up on Bing Crosby, Aretha Franklin or Beyonce -- (laughter) -- each story here is important.
Yahoo, a distant second, has seen its position challenged both by Google and by up and coming Bing, powered by Microsoft.
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Three years later he set up DMG with Wu Bing, a former gymnast, and Peter Xiao, the son of a military officer.
And in fact, through a tie-up with Microsoft's Bing, that is exactly what is likely to happen.
The report shows that Bing had a better ROI than Google, up 10% compared with a year ago, while Google was down 12% from a year ago.
It now will be up to Orr, Snyder and Bing, and those who take part in the restructuring, to put it back on a path to growth and out of its misery.
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The women are up against 2011 winner Modern Family, Bing Bang Theory and the decidedly dudely Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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And a lot of it, you end up either searching on Google or on Bing or you're in some portal and there's stories that are populating.
Earlier today, we wrote about a rumor that was kicking up on a few Android blogs that Bing would be the default search engine on ALL Android smartphones for Verizon in the future.
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The 360's Bing functionality aimed to solve that issue, but sadly never lived up to our expectations.
Microsoft is, of course, interested in locking up .microsoft, but also has applied for .bing, .azure, .docs, .live, .office, .windows, and several others.
SearchMetrics, uses advanced engineering to analyze search engine results for companies that want to move up the ranks in the results returned by Google, Bing and others.
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Yahoo partnered with Microsoft on Bing to drive its search technology, which allows Yahoo to free up its resources from its search business and concentrate its efforts on expanding its content business.
From there, you can add a note, look up words in The New Oxford American Dictionary, translate through Bing translation or share passages on Facebook or Twitter.
Online ad revenue was up 15%, driven by an increase in revenue per search on Bing.
After you run a search for a US domestic or international trip (with at least one airport on the itinerary being in the US), Bing Travel makes a prediction about whether you should buy, because prices are predicted to go up later, or wait, because lower prices are expected.
Bing has continued to grow and now has a 13.4% share of the market, up from 12.8% back in August 2010.
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