According to TIME, 3 out of 10 web searches (when you include Yahoo!) are Bing-powered. I have to admit that I’m surprised by this because I never thought Bing would go anywhere. However these days I do find myself using the product more often. My opinion of Bing is as follows (yours may differ, of course): Bing and Google search results are the...

In a new campaign to get some traction with their Bing search engine, Microsoft is running a promotion where $3 will be donated to an educational cause of your choosing just for setting Bing as your default search engine. Choose Bing and we’ll send you a $3 donation code to use towards a public school classroom project of your choice on DonorsChoose.org. This...

In Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome you can use keywords to activate any web site that supports custom input (like google.com for example). Mapping sites are easy to set up for keyword shortcut searches as long as you know how to configure them. The way to use the keyword search once configured is to go to your address bar, type the word MAP followed by...

Users of the Google Chrome web browser use the address bar itself instead of an additional search bar to perform a search. Firefox can be modified to act exactly the same with a configuration tweak. Type about:config in Firefox’s address bar. Next to Filter type keyword. You will see this:The keyword.URL Preference is the one you want to modify, but...

News web sites are nothing new and have been around a very long time. People like them a lot because they do genuinely deliver the news we want to read be it for world, national or local information. The formula for a news site really hasn’t changed all that much over the years, with the exception that there’s now more social integration. Google in...

Did you know Bing has a language translator? Neither did I until yesterday. I found it quite by accident. Bing really needs to promote this utility more. A lot more. It truly is great. Bing uses a side-by-side layout with highlighting so you can easily see what’s being translated from what. In addition, auto-detect is the first choice on load of the site...

In certain instances it’s better to have the exact coordinates of a location on the map because some addresses are listed incorrectly whether you using Google Maps or Bing Maps. This is especially true in rural or highly dense city areas where addresses don’t exactly point to their correct locations. Using direct coordinate data however, the...

No, this does not mean that Yahoo! the site is going away. Far from it. It means that Y! has officially offloaded it to Microsoft. Yahoo! has made it very clear these days (and their CEO even said so) that they are not a search company, so now Y! is all about content. This is part of the reason why Y! has been making major changes over the past few years –...

Bing is the new search engine web site from Microsoft. This is their attempt to put their name on the map concerning internet search, or said differently, Microsoft is trying to compete with Google. Again. Bing is the replacement for Live Search. You can try it right now if you like. Just go to www.bing.com. Or, if you’d prefer a tour first, that’s...