| | Bing Accused of Censoring Simplified Chinese Language Searches (11/21/2009 8:16 PM UTC) | |
| | The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof is controversially asking web users to “ Boycott Bing “, claiming that Bing is censoring Simplified Chinese queries even outside the People’s Republic of China. Last night, Bing responded to Kristof’s Friday afternoon posting, citing a programming bug but failing to deny the censorship claims. To us, both sides of the argument seem lacking. Boycott Bing ... | |
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| | New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Bashes Microsoft Bing (11/21/2009 5:08 PM UTC) | |
| | While several nice things have been written about Microsoft's new Bing search engine, including by his NYT colleague David Pogue, op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof does not agree. In a scat... Continue reading "New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Bashes Microsoft Bing" | |
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| | Microsoft Takes Users Behind Bing (11/20/2009 8:48 PM UTC) | |
| | Microsoft has launched a new site for Bing, where users can go to find out the latest features that have been implemented into the search engine (excuse me, "decision engine"). The site's called Behind Bing . "You can see each feature in action though a screencast, see me talk about why we did it the way we did (for those who like to geek out), and get some drill-down details," says Bing's ... | |
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| | Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries (11/21/2009 10:29 AM UTC) | |
| | boggis writes "Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times journalist, is calling for a boycott of Microsoft's Bing. They have censored search requests at the request of the Chinese Government (like certain others). The difference is that Bing has censored all searches done anywhere in simplified Chinese characters (the characters used in mainland China). This means that a Chinese speaker searching for ... | |
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| | Bing to seek council's OK to sell $250M bond (11/20/2009 8:28 AM UTC) | |
| | Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is expected to ask the City Council today to approve the sale of a $250-million bond that would help reduce the city's accumulated debt. "A deficit-elimination plan will be submitted to council that is inclusive of a $250-million deficit-elimination bond," Karen Dumas, Bing's director of communications, told the Free Press. | |
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| | Bing's layoffs top 460 so far, city report says (11/20/2009 8:27 AM UTC) | |
| | In an effort to cut into a $300-million-plus deficit, Mayor Dave Bing has laid off more than 460 workers from more than 20 City of Detroit departments since taking office in May. The figures were detailed in a report from the city's Human Resources Department to Councilman Kwame Kenyatta. A dollar figure as to how much has been saved was not included in the report. | |
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| | Bing to seek $250M bond (11/20/2009 4:40 AM UTC) | |
| | Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is expected to ask City Council today to approve the sale of a $250-million bond that would help reduce the city's accumulated debt. | |
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| | Microsoft Bing November 2009 Search Update? (11/20/2009 2:20 PM UTC) | |
| | There is some early discussion over at WebmasterWorld that Microsoft Bing has updated their search index. Many webmasters are discussing changes in rankings in this and other forums (which are hard to link to). Here is what WebmasterWorld moderator, martinibuster wrote: Bing engineers may need to refine their trust algos. I'm seeing a SERP where Bing is giving a poor quality subdomain a pass ... | |
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| | Detroit City Council OKs Bing's bond sale (11/21/2009 8:27 AM UTC) | |
| | The Detroit City Council voted 6-2 Friday to approve a $250-million fiscal stabilization bond sale that will allow the city to pay off its short-term debt and restructure its long-term financial obligations. | |
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| | Detroit City Council passes Bing plan; four members attend their last meeting (11/21/2009 6:14 AM UTC) | |
| | Detroit -- Facing threats the city will run out of cash by January, the City Council on Friday signed on to the sale of $250 million in bonds to pay down a $300 million deficit. | |
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