More than the past couple of days, Bing was within the news, although not for the right reasons. Social missteps aside,
Cheap Office 2007, there had been a couple of Bing-related bits that didn;t get as significantly play.1st, the numbers. comScore;s February U.S. lookup share scores went out on Friday, March 11. Bing;s share grew from thirteen.one % in January 2011 to 13.six % in February, based on comScore. Yahoo;s share held steady at sixteen.0 percent, though Google;s U.S. search share dropped from 65.six percent in January to 65.4 percent in February, comScore stated. Bottom line: MicroHoo;s combined share was up slightly, from 29.2 % in January, to 29.six percent in February. (Note: They are all explicit core search share numbers, which removes certain classes of searches that comScore doesn’t deem to get actual “user-engaged” searches.)The Bing crew also is touting at SXSW this week a Microsoft-Research-developed recommender technologies,
Windows 7 Keygen, codenamed “Matchbox.” Matchbox is being implemented by the Fuse Labs group with Project Emporia. (Fuse is part of Microsoft Research these days.) Project Emporia is a news aggregation tool that works in various Web browsers and on Windows Phone 7.The personalization technologies underlying Matchbox/Emporia are of interest to the Bing staff because of the growing importance of local/personalized lookup and advertising. It will be interesting to watch how Matchbox and/or Emporia end up even more integrated with Bing, more than time. One of the Matchbox researchers, Ralph Herbrich, heads the Bing Personalization crew “which focuses on prototyping and enabling personalized experiences across Microsoft;s Online Services Division, including Bing Mobile,
Windows 7 Professional, Bing News,
Office Professional, Bing Web and AdCenter, through agile development and fast deployment of computational intelligence and social computing technologies,” based on his bio page.Meanwhile, there have been rumors that Microsoft may be taking the wraps off a test version of HTML5-enabled Bing search site later today, March 14,
Buy Windows 7, as part of its IE 9 launch. Microsoft officials have said the final IE 9 bits will be available for download starting at 9 p.m. PT on March 14.