'Scroogled' Is Microsoft's Latest Lame Attack on Google's Search Dominance
The new Microsoft marketing push to get users to switch to Bing is more anti-Google than pro-anything, and it's not exactly working at all.
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There are two Santa trackers in town — er, space — this Christmas: the trusty ole eyes at NORAD and Google's new version, the simultaneous existence of which could lead to some very confused children next Monday night.
The new Microsoft marketing push to get users to switch to Bing is more anti-Google than pro-anything, and it's not exactly working at all.
After taking Bing up on its "Bing It On Challenge," which asks Internet searchers to use Google and Bing in a side-by-side blind test, to our surprise we have discovered that Bing delivered just as often as Google.
Following Google's unsuccessful rollout of its Google+-integrated social search at the beginning of the year, Bing has announced its own version of the same idea, which, interestingly, does not involve Google+.
Even fed-up former Googlers who have migrated to Bing can't really get away from the search giant.
Small businesses are getting sick of Google charging big sums for access to its popular Maps product. Here are three ways to get around without Google Maps.
You can tweak the settings; you can educate yourself about the settings; but you cannot opt out of Google's data collection. That is, unless you stop using Google altogether. Let us show you how.
This afternoon Wolfram Alpha will release an updated "pro" version of its search engine, just in time for us to give up our Google habit.
Only a few weeks into the new year and Google's gotten itself into its third scandal of 2012, involving some shady solicitations for business in Kenya, and all the bad PR is starting to affect its business.
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