Bing, Live.com and Hotmail blocked in China
Microsoft has confirmed that several of their web properties are currently blocked in China.
Microsoft’s just launched Bing search engine along with Hotmail webmail service and Live.com are all blocked.
Microsoft said: “Microsoft’s Bing.com, Live.com and Hotmail.com are among several Internet services that have been blocked for customers in China. [...]
Microsoft has practically failed to take on Google when it comes to the search engine market.
The company has launched several editions of their search engines. We have had MSN Search, Live Search and now yet another version is expected to come out in the coming days.
The codename for the new edition of Microsoft’s search engine [...]
Microsoft Kumo might arrive next week
There is a strong possibility that Microsoft would finally launch their Kumo codenamed search engine next week.
Microsoft Kumo is currently undergoing private beta testing. We have already seen referral hits from Kumo.com in our server logs.
It remains to be seen if Kumo would be launched on its own [...]
Microsoft merges Live Search Products with Live Search Cashback
US based software giant continues to work hard to enhance their search services to provide a better challenger to Google services.
Microsoft has now announced that they are merging Live Search Products with Live Search Cashback.
The company said in a blog post about this new development: “The [...]
Microsoft Live Labs team gets smaller
Looks like Microsoft is realizing that its Live Labs team is not doing a good enough job.
The company has shuffled the group and fewer people are now working in this division.
Microsoft has moved some of the team members to other divisions while avoiding any job cuts.
The company said: [...]
Microsoft Live Search cashback is now instant!
Microsoft continues to enhance its Live Search cashback offer with new features.
The service is now offering instant cashbacks to the customers.
The user just has to use the Live Product search service to hunt for products they want to purchase.
The products which are eligible for the offer [...]
Microsoft: Live Cashback program a success
Microsoft might not be closing in on Google in terms of search engine market share but the company claims that their Live Cashback program has been a success.
Microsoft said that the Cashback scheme is attracting new web users to their search services which is the aim of the program.
However, market [...]
Microsoft Live Search Cashback offering huge discounts
Microsoft is getting more aggressive with its Live Search Cashback offer.
The company is now offering discounts as high as 25% on items purchased from eBay
Users are required to search for products on the company’s Live Product search service to get these discounts.
eBay has been a Microsoft partner on [...]
Microsoft Live Search gains from Live Cashback
Microsoft had recently announced their Live Cashback offering on their Live Search service.
The launch seems to have somewhat helped Microsoft as research shows a 15% gain in search volume in the recent month compared to the previous month.
However, this is still not enough data to prove that Microsoft would [...]
Microsoft updates Live.com
Software giant Microsoft has released yet another updated edition of their search engine on Live.com.
The page sports a new color theme though the result pages seem to have the older interface.
There is nothing exceptional about this update visually.
Yahoo has been doing better things with their search as they have just made available [...]
