You may have read the juicy sound bites from Satya Nadella in Google’s antitrust trial this week, as the Microsoft CEO made the case that the search giant unfairly leverages… Read More
Microsoft considered selling its Bing search engine to Apple in a deal that would have replaced Google as the default search offering on Apple’s devices, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
Microsoft is updating its OpenAI-powered Bing search chatbot with several new features, and expanding its availability beyond the initial limited preview, looking to build on its momentum three months after… Read More
With OpenAI’s unveiling of GPT-4 today, its partner Microsoft acknowledged something that had been largely assumed but never confirmed: its AI-powered Bing search engine has been using GPT-4 all along.… Read More
Editor’s note: This is a guest commentary from Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a Seattle-based organization at the forefront of natural language processing research.… Read More
Microsoft is wading into a dispute between Google and the Australian government by asserting that it would never threaten to leave the country, as Google did last week. Google is… Read More
A database error late last year exposed the personal information of nearly a million patients, University of Washington Medicine said Wednesday. The healthcare network, which employs nearly 30,000 providers in… Read More
Microsoft’s search engine has been serving and recommending child pornography, according to an investigation by TechCrunch and third-party researchers. After receiving an anonymous tip that illegal images of children were… Read More
Update, 1 p.m. PT: Trump threatened Google, Facebook, and Twitter in comments to reporters Tuesday afternoon. TRUMP: "I think Google is taking advantage of a lot of people. I think… Read More
Microsoft, which has quietly built a $6.9 billion/year advertising business through its Bing search engine, will attempt to expand its reach with a new advertising network that extends the Bing… Read More
Baidu is known primarily as a search giant in China, but the company, which just opened an office in the Seattle area, is putting its full weight behind artificial intelligence… Read More
Qi Lu was a top engineering executive at Microsoft for eight years, leading products including Office and Bing, and shaping company’s artificial intelligence strategy under CEO Satya Nadella before leaving… Read More
Amazon reportedly acquired Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Graphiq back in May, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Times, citing “four sources familiar with the deal but unauthorized to discuss it,” says the… Read More
It may have seemed like the only thing anyone cared about — or pretended to care less about — in 2016 was the presidential campaign and election. But an analysis… Read More
Paul Allen’s non-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is expanding its flagship product Semantic Scholar to the world of neuroscience. The smart search engine, which helps scientists hone their… Read More
Financial services technology company Blucora completed the sale of its InfoSpace search business for $45 million in cash to email marketing company OpenMail LLC on Wednesday morning. Founded in 1996 by Naveen Jain,… Read More
Bing may seem like a forgotten entity, lost in Google’s dominance of the search engine world. But a look at Microsoft’s most recent financial results shows that’s not the case. Microsoft on Tuesday… Read More
If the success of services like Yelp, Wikipedia, and YouTube prove one thing, it’s the power of user-generated content. But actually getting enough data from users to provide a useful tool… Read More
The internet is so taken aback by good manners that a tweet about a British grandma who used “please” and “thank you” as bookends to a Google search has achieved… Read More
Searching the internet for more information on medical symptoms you’re suffering from may not be the best way to address a real health concern. But the data from those search queries has proven… Read More
DocuSign had a new CEO all lined up — and then something happened. The digital signature company had scheduled media briefings with its next CEO, in advance of an April 4… Read More
Hypocrisy. Google managers should have expected to see that word used a lot to describe their actions had they not reversed a decision that might have forced 9to5google.com to change the… Read More
If you’ve used Google lately, you’ve noticed those little information-packed card that show up at the top of some search results, giving you the exact answer to the question you had… Read More
An Internet search on the evolution of the Bing logo returned some fresh hits Thursday as tweaks were made at the 6-year-old Microsoft product. It’s the third variation of the logo, which… Read More
Updated below with Microsoft statement. Yahoo just announced a search deal with Google, taking advantage an earlier revision of its longtime Microsoft search pact that gave Yahoo the ability to use… Read More
Microsoft is giving Seahawks fans a reason to use its search engine over competitors. Bing teamed up with Seattle’s professional football team to launch a custom version of its Rewards program… Read More
Amazon is gearing up to fight a legal precedent that could keep online retailers from suggesting searches for products they don’t sell. In a new appeal, filed this week, Amazon’s lawyers… Read More
Consider the last big-ticket purchase you made. Maybe you compared prices, read reviews, and utilized online tools designed to help consumers. Now imagine you could apply that same shopping strategy to… Read More
Unlike web pages, the contents and capabilities of apps are usually hidden away from a search engine’s web crawlers, not accessible to searchers or potential users. Now, Microsoft’s Bing search engine wants to give… Read More
A new provision in the renewed search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo gives either company the ability to end the deal at any point after Oct. 1 of this year by… Read More
