Bing

Joy of Tech does Google vs. Bing

The facts are all out but the commentary continues.

Here's one humorous view of the Google(GOOG) Bing controversy last week from the cartoonists Nitrozac and Snaggy from Joy of Tech .

The televised Google-Bing cage match

Here's the video with Google's Matt Cutts and Microsoft's Harry Shum 'discussing' the recent Bing copying Google allegations.

This is about as interesting as it gets in search engines folks.

The talk is from this week's Big Think Farsight 2011 - Beyond the Search Box event.  In one corner, you have Google's (GOOG) web spam fighter Matt Cutts.  In the other corner, you have Microsoft (MSFT) researcher Harry Shum. Computer Science professor and researcher MORE

Today in Tech: iPad 2 screen dissected, Microsoft a cheater?

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

"Some Bing results increasingly look like an incomplete, stale version of Google results -- a cheap imitation." -- Google Fellow and search engineer Amit Singhal

A war of words erupted yesterday over a controversial blog post by Singhal, who accused Microsoft Bing of essentially "copying" Google search results. "It's cheating to me because we work incredibly hard and MORE

Facebook's #3 advertiser is Microsoft search hijacking page

1.75 billion Facebook ad impressions were purchased by the Microsoft proxy.

In a post called "Facebook Books $1.86B in Advertising; Muscles In on Google Turf," Adage details Facebook's growing advertising pool. Here's a chart of social networking's biggest ad sources. Obviously, Facebook is most of that.

Two notables stand out...

Interestingly, Google itself was the fifth-biggest advertiser for the same period, as it was looking to market its Chrome web browser. Curiously, the third-biggest advertiser MORE

Analyst: Google has a solid CES

Product announcements in both phones and tablets (and even TVs) were overwhelmingly Android.

In a note entitled "Tablets everywhere at CES," Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post remarks that CES was certainly a big venue for new Google (GOOG) Android-powered products.

The Android camp has demonstrated this CES that it could present to the market attractive solutions (both hardware and software) that match if notsurpass the product experience offered by Apple, MORE

Today in Tech: Facebook facial recognition, Twitter worth $3.7 billion?

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

Next week, Facebook, which is on track to reach sales of $2 billion this year, will release a new facial recognition feature called Tag Suggestions that automatically suggests who users should tag in photos. Whenever users choose to tag people in their photos, Tag Suggestions will step in and offer up suggestions about who the friends in MORE

Yahoo's Bartz's biggest mistake: playing through pain

The famously volatile Bartz defends her two-year tenure as Yahoo CEO to Fortune and says she's cut out the cuss words -- sometimes.

When Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz opens her mouth, it's likely something quote-worthy—though possibly not fit for print—is coming. Case in point: Last May, the outspoken chief executive told TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington to "f*** off" during a videotaped interview.

But on Tuesday evening, a somewhat more subdued Bartz took MORE

Google awarded patent for Google Instant/ Social Search

The USPTO today awarded Google a patent for what looks like Google Instant Search.

Google has been thinking about Instant for a while it seems.  United States Patent 7836044 covers Anticipated query generation and processing in a search engine and was filed in June of 2004.  It is described as:

A search system monitors the input of a search query by a user. Before the user finishes entering the search query, the MORE

Google has Windows Phone 7 app ready for US launch day

If for some reason, you'd rather search using Google, over Microsoft's built-in Bing browser, Google's got a Windows 7 app for that.

Just like Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing has a Google (GOOG) Android App, Google does a Windows Phone 7 app, the company revealed today.

Searching with Google on your Windows Phone 7 device just got easier. The Google Search app for Windows Phone 7 provides quick and convenient access to a rich MORE

Today in Tech: News around the Web

A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.