Tag Archive for: Bing

Is having your photo featured on Bing homepage enough reason to give up your rights?

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When a company creates a search engine that is so popular that it becomes a verb, who does a competitor hire to change the default behavior of the majority of web users? In the case of Microsoft, it hired social scientist Matt Wallaert to work with Bing. Wallaert was tasked “with figuring out ways to make it easier for Bing users to make decisions and take actions, as well as ways to wean people off…
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Phys.Org Hacked, serving up malware? Google blocks site, but Bing doesn’t

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Starting this morning, if you tried to access Phys.org from either Chrome or Firefox, you were greeted with: Firefox also warned of Phys.org being an attack site and blocked access.
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How to use Bing Maps for ‘fun’ geo-stalking

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When it comes to geo-stalking with Bing Maps, Carnal0wnage must subscribe to the notion of “go big or go home.” The post talks about how Bing maps allow users to add “apps” such as Twitter to make geo/social stalking “fun.” Read more
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With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog  —  MIKE NICHOLS has a poster on his office wall.  It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible — until Ali beat him, in 1964, in one of the biggest upsets …

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