Features

• IN DEPTH: Defying the odds

  By Julia Talevski | 30 September, 2011 09:28

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

• Bing gains again -- should Google worry?

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 11 March, 2010 11:06

  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.

• Bing now a serious challenger to Google

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 12 November, 2009 10:34

  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.

• The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: questions and answers

  By JR Raphael | 30 July, 2009 08:55

  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 Search: RIP

  By Jared Newman | 30 July, 2009 08:59

  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.

• Bing filters out sensitive results for Chinese searches

  By Owen Fletcher | 25 June, 2009 20:30

  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.

• Bing makes gains, but is Google actually suffering?

  By JR Raphael | 18 June, 2009 08:26

  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.

• Microsoft's Bing Ad Claims to End 'Search Overload'

  By JR Raphael | 04 June, 2009 08:44

  Microsoft's first commercial for Bing, the company's recently rebranded search engine, is officially out in the wild. The inaugural Bing ad focuses on the notion of "search overload," suggesting Internet users have been "lost in the links" while America's financial system has been collapsing.

• Microsoft Bing goes live: So what?

  By David Coursey | 01 June, 2009 23:16

  Now that its available, my first experiences with Microsoft Bing lead me to a simple, inescapable conclusion, "So what?" I had imagined that something as widely hyped as Bing would be a life-changing experience. It wasn't. Not even close.

• MS Punches Back with Bing, Zune - Google and Apple Yawn

  By Thomas Wailgum | 29 May, 2009 04:11

  The "Redmond Kid" has come out fighting this week! Microsoft announced, with great marketplace buzz, that two new versions of its products are on the way.

• Hands on with Microsoft Bing

  By Tom Spring | 29 May, 2009 02:48

  At last, Bing has arrived. I tested a preview release of Microsoft's new search/decision engine, previously called Kumo, to see how well it compares. Here's a breakdown of its new features and how well they perform.

• 5 things I want to know about Bing

  By Ian Paul | 28 May, 2009 05:50

  Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is expected to take the stage Thursday at the D: All Things D conference and debut Redmond's new search brand, codenamed Kumo.

• Microsoft 'Bing' would bring new life to old domain

  By JR Raphael | 27 May, 2009 08:45

  Microsoft's planning to relaunch its Live search engine under the name "Bing," a recent report suggests.