Nov 15, 2011 at 8:39pm ET by Gary Price

Last week Mozilla released version 8.0 of Firefox and a nifty new feature allows you to search Twitter directly from the Firefox search box. Although I’m a Firefox user, last week's update was not a big deal for me. Why? I’ve had access to Twitter’s search engine and Twitter’s “who to follow” database from my Firefox search box for a long time. In fact, I have had access to many search engines, library catalogs, database lookups, and other searchable databases I use a lot, want to demo, or use often. Plus, I decide what search tools to add, remove, and how to order the [...]

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Redesigned Bing Bar Toolbar More Like A “Dashboard”

Feb 17, 2011 at 2:12pm ET by Greg Sterling

Bing is introducing a totally redesigned version of its toolbar, called the "Bing Bar." Apparently it has been "rebuilt from the ground up," says Microsoft's Stefan Weitz. Indeed, it operates more like a kind of "dashboard" than a conventional toolbar with links to various sites. And yes, the Bing Rewards loyalty program is still in force. The new toolbar, which is graphically more pleasing to look at than a conventional toolbar, enables users to get lots of different types of information via drop-down windows: news, weather, maps, multiple email accounts, movies, games and so on -- in addi [...]

Bing Terminates Relationship With Publisher Doing Tricky Home Page Switch

Jan 18, 2011 at 1:07pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Is Facebook's third largest advertiser really a site that tries to trick people into switching to Bing? Apparently not. Still, Bing's not happy with the tactics and is ending its relationship with the publisher. The site, Make-My-Baby.com, now appears to have gone down. But earlier today, it was suggesting that people needed a plug-in to use it -- one that would install a toolbar and change their search provider and home page to Bing. The site had allowed people to create baby characters. Not Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser An Ad Age article suggests that Make-My-Baby is Facebook's [...]

Microsoft Releases New MSN Toolbar, Now Powered By Bing

Aug 21, 2009 at 9:12am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Bing team tweeted last night that a new MSN Toolbar is now available at toolbar.msn.com. The new toolbar is supposedly now powered by Bing, Microsoft's new search engine. I am not exactly sure what all the new features are but as you can see, the MSN butterfly is now being placed inline with the Bing logo: [...]

Related Topics: Firefox | Microsoft: Bing | Toolbars & Add-Ons

The Toolbar Factor: Engagement’s Role in Social Voting

Jun 30, 2009 at 7:00am ET by Jordan Kasteler

Since their infancy, social news sites have been trying to stay one step ahead of social media users trying to artificially promote content to their front page. Digg.com has been the center focus for spamming and gaming in social media because a front-page promoted story equates to thousands of visitors and hundreds, or even thousands of links. In order to combat the gamers and filter out spam, Digg has created an algorithm that is very complex in nature. Never do they cease to fine tune it, in an effort to try to stay ahead of people trying to artificially promote content to their front page. [...]

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