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...Microsoft has said Bing should not be subject to the same obligations as its larger competitor, Google Search....
...However, Xiang Bing, dean of the Beijing-based Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, says domestic demand remains strong, and he is also developing courses focused around “unicorn” businesses in Singapore...
...He also alluded to its Xbox gaming console, the LinkedIn platform, its Bing search engine and its AI applications, which it had recently integrated....
...Even non-ad results can look like wrong answers, with links full of buzzwords so Google gives them a higher ranking....
...Then it doesn’t matter if everyone switches from Google to Bing to Baidu — or if they don’t. Yes, my portfolio will own loads of dud companies along the way....
...The first uses of MUM involve behind-the-scenes search tasks like ranking results, classifying information, or extracting answers from text....
...include binding arbitration for payments, anti-discrimination clauses to protect publishers and a requirement that platforms notify publishers in advance about algorithm changes affecting search engine rankings...
...Bing Ling, a professor of Chinese law at the University of Sydney, said that Beijing wanted the trial to have a “chilling effect”, by showing that “it is now legally perilous to engage in overt political...
...Rebecca MacKinnon, director of Ranking Digital Rights, noted that Microsoft had taken down its blogging platform after being criticised in 2005 for removing the blog of a Chinese journalist....
...Chinese patients pore over rankings of top hospitals produced by institutions such as Fudan University in Shanghai, while online forums and increasingly popular medical apps allow them to pinpoint the doctors...
...We update ratings after a period of elevated share price volatility and apply the following framework: 1) We favour stocks in the bottom quartile of our “percentile ranking” screen as they have almost priced...
...Chinese start-ups have dominated the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s rankings of facial-recognition accuracy, according to a report published in 2018....
...Search engines are often the first port of call for those hunting for the perfect ring to seal the deal, making the likes of Google and Bing battlegrounds on which jewellers fight for eyeballs....
...A US investigation by the Federal Trade Commission two years ago found evidence that Google tested ways to “demote” some comparison shopping sites in its search rankings....
...Googlers — As the Financial Times has just reported, the European Commission will tomorrow issue a Statement of Objections (SO) regarding the display and ranking of certain search results, in particular...
...Bing Xiang has never really done things the way other business school deans do....
...It is why you drive the car you drive and it is why you don’t say: “Let me just Bing [rather than Google] that.”...
...Mr Cauz said he had good relations with Google and Bing, a Microsoft search engine, but that improving search ranking remained a challenge....
...Although Tang and the Metropolitan are grabbing much of the attention, it was Sunny Times that started the ball rolling, according to Han Bing, the club’s general manager....
...A couple of years ago, Twitter struck deals with both Google and Microsoft’s Bing but only the latter was renewed when they both expired last year, effectively ending Google’s “real time search” feature....
...More than a thousand factors are used to determine results ranking in a Bing search, he added, making any use of search behaviour learnt from Google only a minor issue....
...Bing and Yahoo’s team-up on search hasn’t yet made any significant dent in Google’s dominance of the search market....
...The company, which dominates the rankings of leading games played on Facebook, has already been backed separately by Kleiner....
...But antitrust regulators have already begun to look this year into how the company’s core search ranking system works....
...“There is clearly very strong support for [Microsoft’s] Bing to take share off Google,” he says. “I don’t think anybody wants to annoy Google....
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