Microsoft's Bing search engine continues to show slight gains in popularity, according to new data released by comScore on Wednesday.

Microsoft's Bing, which received favorable reviews when it launched at the beginning of June, showed an uptick in popularity soon after its launch. That interest continued for a second straight week, comScore found.

"It appears that Microsoft Bing has continued to generate interest from the market for the second consecutive week," said Mike Hurt, comScore's senior vice president, in a statement. "These early data reflect a continued positive market reaction to Bing in the initial stages of its launch."


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Microsoft CEO Balmer's Do-Over Wish: Search


The chief executive [Steve Balmer] of Microsoft says he wishes his company had been much swifter in developing a search engine. “If I could have one do-over,” he says, “I would say start sooner on search.”

Balmer said he and his predecessor at Microsoft, Bill Gates, used to keep a list of 10 biggest mistakes they had made. They’d look at it and rib each other by asking: “Can you believe that we spent $2 million building blah-blah-blah?”

But he said what bothers him most is something he didn't do: come up with a popular search engine before Google. "Sometimes the error you make is what you don't do or what you don't start soon enough," he said. "Most of our mistakes came not because we didn't see the technology change that was coming. Ironically, we didn't see the business change that was coming."


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Bing: Microsoft New Search / Decision Engine Review / News


Microsoft rolled out a new search / Decision engine called Bing on June 3 officially. Previously it was called Live Search. Since this is a major improvement feature wise and technically, they decided to rebrand it. It has very nice and easy to use interface, has new features like travel search, shopping and its multimedia search beats everything. This video is a review / news of Bing. Try it out and you will fall in love with it.

Introducing Bing - A Decision Engine from Microsoft


Searching online can generate an overwhelming amount of results. Microsoft's Bing gives you fast, intuitively organized information that helps you make decisions faster and with more confidence. For decisions that matter, Bing & decide.

Bing: The Cure for Search Overload Syndrome


If finding answers in the real-world resulted in the same kind of unrelated and overwhelming information that most search engines provide you with, the world would be a scary place. Bing, the new decision engine, is here to prevent search overload syndrome by making sure that you find the answers you need to the questions you ask.

[Advisory: Not for the tech challenged]


40 productivity-boosting search bookmarklets: Instantly add powerful new search features to your browser

"Bookmarklets"? Is that actually a word?

. . . maybe the technogeek who wrote it just invented it.