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Bing Joins Google in Accepting 'Right to Be Forgotten' Requests

2014-07-17 18:38:23| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

Though Google has been the public face of the "right to be forgotten," it applies to other search engines, too.

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Microsoft's Bing follows Google in offering Europeans the 'right to be forgotten'

2014-07-17 13:27:13| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft has started accepting requests from users in Europe who want to remove search links from Bing under a recent "right-to-be-forgotten" ruling by Europe's top court. The company has asked European residents, who want Microsoft to block search results that show on Bing in response to searches of their names, to fill up a four-part online form.

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Bing to get performance boost from reconfigurable chips

2014-06-17 14:02:40| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft is planning to use programmable chips to boost the performance of the servers for its Bing search engine, by accelerating certain services using these devices. The project, called Catapult, used field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, which as the name suggests can be configured by customers on the field after they are manufactured. FPGAs are now seen as powerful computing devices in their own right, which can be used for accelerating certain programmable tasks, researchers working on the project said.

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After 5 years, Bing still trails Google -- but it has other plans

2014-06-05 14:02:13| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft released Bing -- meant to be the great challenger to Google's ubiquitous search engine -- in June 2009. Five years later, it's clear that Bing has not been the Google challenger Microsoft hoped it would be. Not even close.Microsoft's search engine hasn't gained much market share in its five years, but it also hasn't slipped from its -- albeit distant -- second-place position to Google's dominant spot. And Microsoft is moving beyond using Bing for more than just public search.

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