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Real-Time Twitter feed and Superior Entertainment Sharing in Bing News
Bing has been working consistently to offer best search results to its customers and recently they brought “social” feature also to their search results where people get information from social media such as from Facebook and Twitter. With an up-gradation to the same concept they have introduced two new ways to experience Twitter and Facebook on Bing. Bing integrated real time twitter updates into Bing News. Now as you search a news item you will receive Twitter updates as well along with latest headlines. This will help its users to access real time updates rather than completely relying on the traditional sources.
Bing has also expanded “Liked results’ where you get links that is publicly shared or liked via facebook by your friends. Now they have brought out an easier way to share movies, tv shows, artists directly to your Facebook profile from Bing. With Bing Entertainment pages, you could post “Whats on your mind” by clicking on the “Overview” tab. Bing leaves you the option to share anything viz video game, movies, artists with just one click. This new feature is available in US and will roll out in other places soon.
Yahoo optimizes its “search”
To sustain in the market, Yahoo is leveraging many attempts and also surrendered its search engine to Microsoft to woo more people towards their site.
Adding to this effort, yahoo introduces “Search Direct” which is quite similar to Google’s Instant search’, where they produce instant search results predictions without having to click on the search results. This feature known as “Search Direct” provides celebrity biographies, weather forecasts and news reports before users finish typing the question. To avoid being blamed as just a follower of Google’s Instant search, Yahoo’s Search Direct offers ‘advanced’ results producing edited information and images just under the search results instead of a page full of links.
You could avail ‘Search Direct’ on Yahoo’s search page, but not from its home page. Yahoo is testing the performance of this new feature before going full fledged.
More Interesting features for Bing MOBILE
Bing has launched some interesting features for better Mobile Experience which will certainly make its users at ease to get information instantly. This feature includes better and faster image search, real-time transit and directions, app search for the iPhone and many more with HTML 5 operation. These offers are offered on Smartphone browsers for the iPhone and Android.
Real time transit directions in Bing take in duration of the trip in terms of walking, transit, transit schedule and the traffic status. It also includes relevant information for shopping like comparison of shops, product information, user reviews and also weather reports with auto-suggest and instant prediction. Another interesting feature is in the arena of movies by providing the reviews, trailers, nearest theater & movie schedule etc.
DuckDuckGo, a new search engine
DuckDuckGo is a new search engine launched, similar to Google having a better visual appeal. 
They claim to be unique in keeping users privacy as they don’t track and record your search results. They also guess relevant result for your keyword and highlight the same inside a red box which will be usually drawn from Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha. DuckDuckGo also ban spam sites (loaded with ads). Additionally they own some interesting features such as “Bang’,where you have the option to get results from specific sites alone, for Eg if you want to get information about Osama Bin Laden from Wikipedia alone, you have to type “!wikipedia Osama Bin Laden” to get all the results about the person from Wikipedia. There is a long list of bangs which you could utilize to get relevant results.
Bing unveils another feature “Attractions”
All the travel lovers could make use of Bing’s new Feature update “Attractions Page”, where you get all the details of the place with reviews, rating, events and photos. To provide the latest information, Bing will be teaming up with leading content providers such as Frommers, TripAdvisor, WCities and Zevents. This new page will be very helpful for all those who wanted to plan a trip and Bing stated on their blog that ‘Attractions Page’ is a one stop for all the information about a tourist place and also provides details about nearby restaurants, Directions, Parking etc.
ComScore Releases February 2011 US Search Engine Rankings
A Ray of Hope for Bing as it gains rise in market share while the rival (Google) remained with its 64. 4 %share. Even though Bings’ achievement is very less, they claim to be the achiever.
Google “search” becomes more personalized
Google is providing you many options as far as its “search results” are concerned. For the improvement of the same Google had introduced Searchwiki, Stars in search and Locations settings where you can prioritize and mark your search results. Now they have added one more efficient feature for its users to blocks sites which they don’t want to see again.
Many of you surely had a bad experience in getting the apt results in Google. You might have visited websites that carry irrelevant and low quality content and hence resent it and would be looking for an option to block particular domains from your search results for ever. Google now brings out this feature letting you block sites. When you click a result and then return to Google, you’ll find a new link next to “Cached” that shows “Block all ———.com results. If you proceed with the same by clicking the link “Block all ——.com results, you will receive a confirmation message as well as an option to undo your choice. You could view the link irrespective of whether you are signed in or not but the domains you block are connected with your Google Account so you will have to sign in to confirm a blocked site.
New Feature in Gmail ” Smart Labels”
Google has added one more feature into their cart. Apart the one they have launched last year “Priority Box” which will automatically sort your incoming mails and leaves an option for priority messages, This new one titled “Smart Labels” will help you to classify and organize your email. In order to access the same you have to turn it on from the Labs tab in settings, post which it will automatically categorizes and labels your incoming Bulk, Notification and Forum messages. All the mass mails such as newsletter and promotional email will go into Bulk and gets filtered in your inbox by default. If you have already activated some filters and labels to organize your mail, you could replace it with Smart Labels.
Blekko banned 1.1 Million Sites from Its Search Engine
It seems that every search engine is having a cleanup. Recently Google has updated their algorithm by giving a boost up for some websites and a downfall for someother as per the quality of the content. Now Blekko is a going a step further by banning 1.1 million websites from its searches. They had already removed around 20 websites including eHow, Answerbag (Demand media), but the main difference between Google and Blekko in updating the algorithm is that while the former had sorted the websites based on the content by demoting the sites, Blekko removed them completely, so that it will never ever appear in Blekko.
Blekko announced on their blog that they have brought out this change with the help of ‘Adspam algorithm” and claim that this algorithm is the first of its kind to find spam rather than rank results. The algorithm is designed to identify pages which are spam and abolish before they appear in search results. They have given an explanation about “Adspam” algorithm in their blog. It says that “is a machine-learning algorithm that examines pages for a specific spam signals — the presence of multiple display ad positions on a single page and thin to zero content. Unlike algorithms used by other search engines, AdSpam is being used in conjunction with human curation to detect to continue the War on Spam.
Bing partnered with ‘Angry Birds’
Bing is coming out with some novel ideas and actions everyday to become a better rival for Google. Their new partnership is with Rovio who introduced the much popular game ‘Angry Birds’.
With this deal, Angry Birds feature a search integration with Bing providing over a hundred clues to speed you through new levels and help squash the porcine thieves, Bing announced on their blog.”Featuring Bing Image Search, Bing Maps, and Bing Shopping, the videos show Angry Birds fans how they can advance in the game, featuring the lovable Angry Birds characters. The marketing team of Bing is trying to leverage as many as possible ways to boost up their search results as well as making it more interesting . While ‘Angry Birds’ is the most downloaded application via iPhone, Android, and iPad, this is the first product integration and Bing could surely expect some new users out of this since ‘Angry Birds’ remains the popular game having 25 million gamers spending 200 million minutes playing everyday.