Over the past few days,
Office Pro Plus 2010, Bing was in the news, though not for the proper reasons. Social missteps aside,
Office Enterprise 2007 Key, there had been a couple of Bing-related bits that didn;t get as significantly play.Initial, the numbers. comScore;s February U.S. search share scores went out on Friday, March eleven. Bing;s share grew from thirteen.1 % in January 2011 to 13.6 % in February, according to comScore. Yahoo;s share held steady at sixteen.0 %, whilst Google;s U.S. search share dropped from 65.six % in January to 65.four percent in February, comScore stated. Bottom line: MicroHoo;s mixed share was up somewhat, from 29.two percent in January, to 29.six percent in February. (Be aware: They're all explicit core search share numbers, which removes specific categories of searches that comScore does not deem to be actual “user-engaged” searches.)The Bing group also is touting at SXSW this week a Microsoft-Research-developed recommender technology, codenamed “Matchbox.” Matchbox is being implemented by the Fuse Labs crew with Project Emporia. (Fuse is part of Microsoft Investigation these days.) Project Emporia is a news aggregation tool that works in various Web browsers and on Windows Phone 7.The personalization technologies underlying Matchbox/Emporia are of interest to the Bing group because of the growing importance of local/personalized lookup and advertising. It will be interesting to watch how Matchbox and/or Emporia end up further integrated with Bing, more than time. One of the Matchbox researchers, Ralph Herbrich,
Windows 7 X86, heads the Bing Personalization team “which focuses on prototyping and enabling personalized experiences across Microsoft;s Online Services Division, including Bing Mobile, Bing News, Bing Web and AdCenter, through agile development and fast deployment of computational intelligence and social computing technologies,” based on his bio page.Meanwhile,
Office 2010 Pro, there have been rumors that Microsoft may be taking the wraps off a test version of HTML5-enabled Bing search site later today,
Windows 7 64 Bit, March 14, as part of its IE 9 launch. Microsoft officials have said the final IE 9 bits will be available for download starting at 9 p.m. PT on March 14.