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Bing Is Launching A New “Do More” Ad Campaign This Weekend (video)

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Microsoft is about to take its Bing advertising to another level this weekend during the National Football League NFC Championship game and will do so again during the X Games on ESPN. Bing is going from the former campaign of the “decision engine” to the “do more” campaign.

It is fairly well . . .

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Bing Moves To The Number Two Position In Search

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Microsoft has overtaken Yahoo in search for the number two spot in the United States according to comScore. Bing accounted for 15.1 percent of searches in December; Yahoo brought in just 14 percent. However, Google continues to on top with 65.9 percent of search queries conducted in December, up 0.5 percent from . . .

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Bing Says Happy Holidays With The Classic Yule Log

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The Bing search website this Christmas morning welcomes the old beloved New York television tradition Yule Log. The Yule Log, video of a blazing fireplace accompanied by holiday music, became a holiday tradition on WPIX-TV in New York beginning in the 1950s

This version is not on your old fashioned television, but . . .

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Bing Top Search Terms for 2011 Revealed

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The team over at Bing Search posted earlier today about the top terms which were the subject of searches in this past year on the Microsoft search portal.  It is always interesting as we approach the end of another year when these types of summaries start to come out.  I believe it . . .

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Is Google Copying Bing Again?

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Recently there have been some stories about Google making changes to their search results page appearance and I have not paid too much attention to them. However, this morning I was doing a search in both Bing and Google and had a bit of Déjà vu.

So I made screenshots of each . . .

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Google Introduces Voice Search for Desktop US Chrome Users

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Just caught this entry on the Google home page this afternoon:

Of course I had to try it out and it functioned quite well:

I think their only previous voice search ability was mobile.

Related Posts New Windows Phone 7 Commercial With Bing and Voice Google Search Results . . .

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