Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site.

Opera Software has sued a former designer, claiming that work he did for the company ended up in a project at rival Mozilla, according to Norwegian press reports today.

AV-TEST today stood by the results of its search engine investigation that claimed Microsoft's Bing shows five times the number of malware-hosting websites than Google in its results

While the company is committed to Internet Explorer, it is experimenting with an architecture to replace the browser called Embassies

Spring is in the air, and Google wants its users to be able to search for it and smell it, literally.

Microsoft today took another shot at rival Google with an April Fools' Day prank that turned its Bing search engine into a Google look-alike. Google had its own counter-spoof.

Bing is incorporating more information from outside social networks such as Facebook and Twitter into how it displays search results involving people.

A day after Andy Rubin stepped aside from leading Android, Google today said that Jeff Huber, the company's head of mapping and commerce, is also leaving his post.

Google laid out its plan for the future of search at Google I/O, talking about a search engine for mobile and desktop that not only answers your questions but has a conversation with you and offers information before you even ask for it.

The incredible - and inspiring - story of neuroscientist and Promethean chief science of education officer, Ramona Pierson

Microsoft's Bing search engine may still be a bit player in the lucrative online search business dominated by Google, but it's slowly and steadily gaining users.

Given undistinguished history of Microsoft's late and unlamented Live Search engine, the predecessor to Bing, it's easy to dismiss Redmond as a hapless also-ran in the search market. But given the vast sums of money and resources that Microsoft is investing in its fledging Google challenger, this could change in a hurry.

Well, friends, sound the wedding bells: The longest-running courtship in the history of mankind has finally reached its climax. No July Fools' joke here -- Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to tie the knot and form a search partnership.

Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo who were at the time students at Stanford University.

Microsoft's Bing search engine filters out some sensitive results from searches made in simplified Chinese, the script used to write the language in China, searches revealed Thursday.

Microsoft is gaining new ground with its freshly rebranded Bing search engine, some recently released data suggests. Bing, the research finds, grew 0.8 percent during its second week online.