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Bing Serves Up Five Times More Malicious Sites Than Google

Not all search engines are created equal. When it comes to Microsoft’s Bing, it seems that means malicious websites are happily returned far more often than by Google.


Facebook’s Now Hiding Public Pages From Google’s Prying Eyes

The Register has learned that in part of an ongoing effort to turn Facebook into its own closed ecosystem, Zuck’s empire has closed off public events to, well, the public. Account-holding stalkers only, please.


Facebook Graph Search Australian Hands-On: So Creepy I Might Just Quit

Facebook is soft-launching Graph Search slowly across its billion-strong base of users, but already it is popping up in Australia. I have spent my afternoon so far messing around with Graph Search, and it’s simultaneously the most intuitive and most terrifying search platform I have ever used. The future is terrifying.


How To Get Your Google Back In Windows 8

If you’ve used the newly arrived Windows 8, you may have noticed that among the army of colourful tiles, there’s something important that’s conspicuously absent: Google. Microsoft is pushing its own Bing and Internet Explorer hard, but if that doesn’t cut it for you, Google put out this catchy little video on how to get your Google back.


Tim Cook Personally Apologises For The Awful State Of Apple Maps

I said earlier that even Apple knows just how bad it screwed up Maps. I was talking collectively. As in ‘wow, that Maps team in Cupertino must know something’s up’. Turns out it goes much further than that. Apple’s head honcho Tim Cook has just penned an open letter to the world’s iOS users to apologise for borking Maps so, so badly.


Microsoft’s New Terms Of Service Are Easy To Read, But Demand New Permissions

With a new logo, a new operating system and new phones on the way, Microsoft is barrelling into the future. Presumably, that’s why it spruced up its Services Agreement. The new version is remarkably readable, but it also sneaks in new permissions.


You Can Now Search Facebook Photos On Bing

Well, here’s a strange little feature that has popped up as a result of Microsoft and Facebook’s alliance: the ability to search through the photos of you and your friends.


Bing’s New Friend Tagging Feature Is So Cool You’ll Wish It Wasn’t On Bing

If Google’s angle is that it actually works really well, Bing’s is that it’s a “social search engine“. And the latter’s new Friend Tagging feature lives up to that promise, tapping the social network you actually use to aide your search results.


Bing’s Animated Homepage Is What The Face Of The Internet Should Look Like

Bing’s homepage looks wonderful today. Right now, it livens up your basic search page with an animated time-lapse of concentric startrails at Mountain Valley in Utah. It’s gorgeous, but more importantly we want to see more of this kind of tasteful-but-futuristic design.


Bing Maps Gets New Aerial Images Of Australia

Bing Maps just added 165TB of new aerial images — more than doubling the 129TB previously available. The update covers 38 million kilometres across Australia, North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia.


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