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Bing is now powering Yahoo in US & Canada
- lazyjeff 16y agor.i.p. yahoo search (2004-2010)
- nathanwdavis 16y agoAnyone know about what the technology stack is behind Bing? It would be interesting to know if MS uses their own .NET framework or if it is built on something else.
- gaius 16y agoI expect under the hood Bing is Azure.
- sriramk 16y agoNot much (the real-time Twitter results is one such piece). You have to remember that Bing predates Azure by many years. There is a lot of code/idea sharing though.
- Locke1689 16y agoAzure is too new to be used by much in terms of internal MS. It's usually the other way around (other MS software is being used to power Azure).
- barake 16y agoParts of Bing are (were?) backed by Hadoop thanks to Microsoft's purchase of Powerset - all their NLP search technology ran on Hadoop.
- Locke1689 16y agoI don't think this is true anymore... I think we're using COSMOS now? Maybe someone else wants to help me here.
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- nathanwdavis 16y agoA little googling finds: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fsharp-041310.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fsharp-041... "We’ve also seen fantastic applications in server-side data analysis, including in parts of the Bing ad delivery and analysis pipeline. F# seems a particularly good language for programmatic machine learning." I think that is just one small part of the Bing system though.
- Locke1689 16y agoThat's Microsoft Research. There's no real direct pipeline from MSR to production. Edit: To clarify, I know MSR is using F# in a lot more places than we are.
- abhay 16y agoBing uses a lot of Microsoft technologies including C# and .NET framework languages but as with many large services (or sets of services in this case) the components crawling, processing, indexing and serving content are written in a variety of languages including C, C++, etc and are managed by a myriad of tools languages that support features.
- mkr-hn 16y agoWhat search engines are left now? I know there's Google, Bing, Cuil, and DuckDuckGo, but I'm drawing a blank past that.
- justinl 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#General http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#General
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- jemfinch 16y agoDuckDuckGo is just an interface to Bing.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoIt's certainly more than that and I have a lot of code to prove it.
- kno 16y agoNot to take anything away from the guys, but it is not fair to lineup DuckDuckGo aside Google, Bing and Cuil. It’s simply misleading, yes DuckDuckGo is an interface to search engines.
- yurylifshits 16y agohttp://yandex.com http://yandex.com (Russian search engine) recently launched global English search.
- mark_l_watson 16y agoOne thing about Bing: they offer developers free APIs for search and spelling correction. (http://markwatson.com/blog/2009/06/ruby-client-for-search-and-spelling.html http://markwatson.com/blog/2009/06/ruby-client-for-search-an...). I got a Google search API key in 2000, but they discontinued giving out keys.
- enjo 16y agoBut my god is it difficult to get an adcenter api key from Microsoft. But that's a completely different rant (why do all the major search engines make it so damn hard to spend money with them?).
- charleso 16y agoRankChecker is still showing me different site positions in the Yahoo and Bing search results. Shouldn't keyword rankings be identical if Bing is powering both?
- d2viant 16y agoHere is a short history of who has powered Yahoo's searches: ???? - 2001: Inktomi 2001 - 2004: Google 2004 - 2010: Yahoo 2010 - ????: Bing It will be interesting to see who will power Yahoo after Bing.
- rradu 16y agoI think the deal's for 10 years so it'll be a long time before we find out.
- jcapote 16y agoThey really think Yahoo will last 10 years?
- wwortiz 16y agoYahoo is actually pretty popular with regular users in regards to news, mail, and other such things.
- smackfu 16y agoYeah, they are dominating in webmail. Tech savvy users tend to think everyone switched to GMail but that's just not true.
- mikemol 16y agoIt helps that they lock in sweet contracts with DSL providers like SBC to provide email services.
- megablast 16y agoYahoo is number 1 or 2 for the most popular sport, tv, entertainment, etc... Loads and loads of sites, Yahoo is more a content provider than anything or anyone else.
- Tichy 16y agoIt seems they still support their own "search grammar", though? For example link: - I don't think it works in Bing, and Yahoo was a lot more reliable than Google for this. Any alternatives?
- will_critchlow 16y agoOne that I use is http://www.opensiteexplorer.org http://www.opensiteexplorer.org from http://www.seomoz.org http://www.seomoz.org (disclosure: you need a paid account to get the most out of it and we are business partners of SEOmoz).