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Bing-powered search US market share up 6%; Google down

It would appear that Google’s claims that Microsoft was stealing search results from them has not stopped anyone from using the service.

In results published today, Bing.com went from 10.60% market share in December 2010, up to 12.81% market share just last month, January 2011. That’s an increase of 21% month-to-month. In the same time Yahoo! search was down four points, but overall Bing-powered search (which operates Yahoo! and Bing) was up from 25.77% to 27.44%, a total increase of 6%.

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2011
02/08
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Mozilla plans to release Firefox 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0 in 2011

Mozilla is planning to release four new versions of its open source browser by the end of this year. That means that Firefox 4.0, Firefox 5.0, Firefox 6.0, and Firefox 7.0 are all slated to ship in 2011.

The four new versions is just one of the company’s goals for this year. Here are seven points that the company currently has listed as its Product Priorities for 2011 on its Firefox/Roadmap wiki page:

  1. Ship our new technology to users in smaller bundles
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2011
02/07
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WOF: What search engine did you use before Google?

There’s no denying Google’s dominance in the search engine market. The Mountain View giant currently holds somewhere between 80-90% of the global search market, depending on where you get your numbers, and is almost as dominant in the U.S. alone with a 66% share, according to the latest comScore report. It’s become so present in our lives that the word ‘Google’ itself is commonly used as a verb and has even made it to the Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries.

Besides carrying one of the world’s… Read More

2011
02/05
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Microsoft Is Pleased With Office for Mac 2011 Sales, Trial Version Announced

By offering interesting additions as compared to earlier versions, Office for Mac 2011 edition of the Microsoft productivity pack seems to be a great success for the company, according to an announcement made on their official blog. The Redmond giant hopes that its latest release for Mac OS X earn the attention of more people in the future; therefore they released today trial version of Office for Mac 2011 that can be used free of charge and without restrictions for… Read More

2011
01/26
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Bing Launches Improved Image Search

Today Microsoft announced a big update for Bing’s image search, which now searches for trending topics and related images for your query. This is Microsoft’s first major redesign to Bing images since it launched last year. Although Microsoft has been working hard behind the scenes to improve on the algorithm and improve on related searches using your Facebook friends shared links, this is the first cosmetic change to the website.

Now when you search using Bing images, you’ll now get a new header with… Read More

2011
01/24
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Goo.gl links generate new attacks on Twitter

A new worm is spreading links with malicious code through legitimate accounts on Twitter. Links use Google URL shortener and lead the users to a fake antivirus. According to the Sophos, users who click on the link are directed to the page of an antivirus solution called “Security Shield”. In fact this antivirus is a malware, identified as “Troj/FakeAV-CMG” and can be easily detected by legitimate protection programs.

Twitter also identified this new threat and reported that they are already assisting users who… Read More

2011
01/21
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