Wackao » Search engines http://wackao.com Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:52:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Is Bing the Next Big Thing on the Internet? http://wackao.com/is-bing-the-next-big-thing-on-the-internet/ http://wackao.com/is-bing-the-next-big-thing-on-the-internet/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:44:13 +0000 Wackao http://wackao.com/?p=225 Well talking about search engines, the latest entry from Microsoft ” Bing ” is seen by many as a challenge to Google.Recently after it overtook Yahoo ,it has emerged as a stronger competitor with gradually increasing its share for search.Though Bing has some exceptional features which are also available on Google but either bing-logopeople have never tried to search them or they don’t matter much while searching.One such feature is the Xrank ,where you everyday’s top ranking artists,celebrities,musicians,websites and much more. Take a look.Now this feature can be searched on Google also but Bings has a better display and format on this. But on whole we require search engine’s to be faster,accurate and show us results which we might want to look at, and if you consider this criteria Google is unbeatable. Outside America most of the countries google search hold almost 97% percent of the market share .

May be this is because I am a fan of Google and religiously hate Microsoft( I think everybody hates it). Recently there has been a news of microsoft update of IE 8 installs a firefox plugin to seriously slow down

Firefox! But i seriously believe had it been microsoft in place of Google as the top search engine all these

year we would have to pay a sum of 5$ for an year of subscription to search on web.

Lately Bing again is below Yahoo search ,it has it trying to set itself apart from Google .Although it does almost the same things but Bing is no match to Google if it tries to compete on its ground.

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]]> http://wackao.com/is-bing-the-next-big-thing-on-the-internet/feed/ 0 New Features in Microsoft Bing – Malware Filter http://wackao.com/new-features-in-microsoft-bing-malware-filter/ http://wackao.com/new-features-in-microsoft-bing-malware-filter/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:05:49 +0000 Wackao http://wackao.com/?p=168 Bing,the latest search engine added on to internet is being advertised as a decision making tool(probably not so much – just trying to set itself apart from google) has now added another feature “The Malware Filter“, Bing has strengthened bingit’s security in search by adding malware filter which protects users from downloading malwares from malware sites. Now Bing would not show results which contain malware just like fake software or antivirus sites which promote download on your PC along with hidden malwares.
Full version of Bing is not available outside North America

Here’s the link to full version,which contains interesting information every day in its home page.Some other facts on bing:

On searching any query which seems like a question like “What is the population of America” ,Bing understand the semantics of the search and the first result shown is the actual number, Statistics according to the latest consensus or for more general queries it uses encarta or wikipedia like trusted sources.

One can also calculate numbers on it or ask simple questions like ” How many seconds in a Day?” again the first result shown is a number depicting the answer of oyur question.If you want to find Instant Answers to your queries without many search results use Bing’s instant answers to get in Conversions,Flight deals,Flight Status,hotels,Math ,News and Weather.

Bing also loads hotspots for images in blocks which describes story for that image.Bing is engineered in such a way that background image,Bing logo,hotspots and explore pane which contains Images ,videos,Shopping,News,Maps and Travel  loads in stages which may not slow down your searching in Bing.

One can also turn off background image by adding a variable to the URL  b=0 to turn background off and b=1 to tuen it on.In simple words the address instead of bing.com type http://www.bing.com/?rb=0 [For no background better for slow connections] and http://www.bing.com/?rb=1 to turn it on.

You can also save Bing Backgound by right clicking on the background image and view and then rightclick on the sole image and save it on your desktop.

You can also translate into different languages by posting your search query as “Translate I am a Freak to Spanish” and click search button you will get the translated words in Spanish language .

You can also download bing ringtones for free  —-> Here.

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