By grok2 | October 3, 2009
Seems like Bing is losing steam … “Searchers used Bing less in September than in previous months, ending three consecutive months of growth” — from InformationWeek.
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By grok2 | August 4, 2009
I wondered if Bing was run on Windows servers (that would have been an excellent demo of Windows Server). But checking on NetCraft seems to indicate that bing.com is hosted on Akamai‘s servers and Akamai probably uses Linux based hardware and software. I guess it makes sense that a company with lots of money would [...]
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You can submit your site to Microsoft’s new Bing search engine here in case it isn’t already getting indexed. BTW, the search bot for the Bing search engine is named the same as the one used by MSN Search — MSNBot.
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It seems like Bing’s index is not as current as Google’s possibly because Bing doesn’t crawl web-site’s as fast as Google does. My first blog post to create a Firefox addon for Bing got indexed within hours by Google and showed up in it’s search results. But it is yet to appear in Bing’s search [...]
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I was trying out the new Bing search engine from Microsoft for various searches over the last few days (for things I would normally use Google) just to get a feel for how well it performs. Like almost everyone else, I found the results were surprisingly good — comparable to results from Google. But as [...]
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Microsoft’s bing search just went live. Below is the XML you need to create a OpenSearch format based Firefox add-on to include bing in Firefox’s list of search engines: <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"> <ShortName>bing</ShortName> <Description>bing search</Description> <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding> <Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">http://www.bing.com/favicon.ico</Image> <Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.bing.com/search?q={searchTerms}"></Url> <moz:SearchForm>http://www.bing.com/</moz:SearchForm> </OpenSearchDescription> Create a file with the above contents (make sure [...]
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