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:
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Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Toolbars & Add-Ons, Toolbars & Add-Ons: Firefox Browser
Internet Explorer 6 Forces Bing As Default Search Provider
Jun 2, 2009 at 4:44pm ET by Barry Schwartz
It appears that Bing is overriding the default search provider set by users of Internet Explorer 6. Several IE6 users have complained that since Bing launched, the search provided went from Google (which they set manually) to Bing. To makes things even worse, when the user tries to set the search provider back from Bing to Google, it doesn't allow them.
To be fair to Microsoft, IE6 is very old and Microsoft is already up to version 8. I emailed Microsoft about the issue and they confirmed the bug. A Microsoft representative sent me the following statement:
We're aware of the issue wi [...]
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Live Search “Auto Suggest” Add-On For Firefox Released
Jan 29, 2009 at 10:16pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Microsoft's Live Search still isn't built into Firefox, but you can add it to your Firefox search box manually. Now, a new add-on from Live Search does this complete with the ability for the search box to auto-suggest terms you might be searching for. For more, see the Live Search blog. [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Toolbars & Add-Ons: Firefox Browser
Yahoo’s Inquisitor Now Available For Firefox & Internet Explorer
Oct 23, 2008 at 8:50am ET by Barry Schwartz
My favorite search browser plugin, Inquisitor, is now available for Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Inquisitor was Apple Safari's only solid third-party search browser plugin back in the day. Yahoo acquired them back in May and then provided an upgrade in mid-August. Now, Yahoo has announced they have made this plugin available for Firefox and IE.
If you are running Firefox 2 or 3, you can download the addon over here. If you are running IE 7 or 8, you can download the plugin over here. I highly recommend you give it a try and check out some of the customizations I deployed on Inqui [...]
Filed in: Toolbars & Add-Ons, Toolbars & Add-Ons: Firefox Browser, Yahoo: Search
Headup: A True Semantic Web Search Agent
Oct 16, 2008 at 1:41pm ET by Chris Sherman
"Semantic web" is one of those phrases that's tossed around loosely these days, used to describe just about anything that goes beyond basic keyword search to surface relevant content on the web. But true semantic web applications, those that enable people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications or web sites, are still relatively few and far between.
That's what makes Headup, a new Firefox plugin from the aptly named SemantiNet, so intriguing. Headup monitors your web activity, and based on what you're viewing can seamlessly and contextually "understand" how dispersed data acr [...]
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