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Suspicious edits by certain users

Hi, I would like to bring to your attention the fact that if you look up this article's history, you will see that a subset of contributors only seem to edit Microsoft-related articles, and in a pro-Microsoft, PR-driven manner. There is also the issue with these users, such as User talk:HAl, that they never state their conflicts of interest on their usertalk pages or elsewhere, and blatantly deny all knowledge of a biased angle in their work. I have tried to deal with some of these edits, by adding references for alternative points of view, but they just seem to get deleted all the time.Shane (talk) 20:29, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The only person acting suspicious is you as you are repaetly adding information on Google in the article which is clearly offtopic. This article is not a comparison of Bing and Google. hAl (talk) 21:38, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The whole article sounds like it was written by an advertising person.

Agreed, and many of the people defending the 'unbiased viewpoint' (laughable by the way) of the article are also very suspicious. It would not surprise me if this were being done from a couple of very specific IP numbers of microsoft employees themselves. Although, I'm sure my part of this discussion will be removed very quickly if that is true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.13.76.17 (talk) 02:34, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also agree. I've seen it in many different articles, and on this page I added to the "Criticism" section (back when there actually was a criticism section) a problem with Bing's image searches that brings up porn, even when the "safesearch" is switched to "strict"! I didn't have a source, but rather than ask for a source, someone deleted it without discussion and accused me (in the edit summary) of "bashing Microsoft". Am I supposed to call up Microsoft and ask them if "your pornographic results with Bing (on 'strict' "safe search"-mind you) may please be criticized"?! Sounds like someone either has a disturbing love-obsession with Microsoft or...happens to work there. My, that would be a strange coincidence! If you are working for Microsoft, and frequently edit articles on Microsoft-related topics, and are reading this, I want you to know that you are "skating on paper-thin legal ice"! IP addresses can help pin-point an offender (aka Microsoft) if there's enough warranted interest. (While the accuracy of IP address-bound searching is disputed, it gets legal people on the right path.) Maybe MS can pay you to start a fork of Wikipedia called Microsoftipedia. That's fine with me! (Sorry about the long sentences--say that 5 times fast!) 98.202.38.225 (talk) 07:04, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Interface Languages

A word about interface language would be nice (well that's what I'm searching for.)

Noticed that Bing uses a different technique than Yahoo or Google which use domain ISO country extensions (.it, .fr, .jp) If you enter bing.jp you'll redirected to bing.com/?cc=jp

Microsoft has a rather poor language support in general (eg.: Can't change OS UI language, some Live.com services only let you access the language of the country where you are (Switzerland uses 3 languages but Live.com only shows you german and you couldn't change it)...)

For in case here are the listing of major search engines: [1] yahoo! Google A comparaison chart could be nice... The google article list all available languages

Can anybody wise about this write about it? - YCC 14:31, 23 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cy21 (talk • contribs)

Accuracy of Instant Answers

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I test the "flight to" and "What is the capital of Germany?" options they seem to promote on our page, and both did nothing more than what (for example) Google or other search engines would bring up, which was two links to the correct answer's Wikipedia page. I didn't encounter any Encarta-like entries. But if not, I suggest removing these promotions from the article - if I can search "Capital of ___" on any search engine and find the answer the same way - then its not noteworthy. - AJ Halliwell (talk) 04:16, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed the following. - AJ Halliwell (talk) 03:33, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Plane ticket info. When 'flights from (to)' is entered in the search box in combination with city names or airport codes Bing provides info on ticket prices and a prediction for the future price trend.
Flight status. When 'flight status' and/or a flight number is entered in the Bing search box, Bing provides direct current information on the flight status of the particular flight.
Car info
Celebrity rankings (xRank)
Celebrity news
Encyclopedic answers (What is the capital of Germany?). If the search phrase entered in the search box contains a simple question whose answer can be found in the Encarta encyclopedia, Bing provides a direct answer to the question from Encarta.

it was never called "Windows Live search"

All inclusions of this false naming will be deleted. It was never referred to as Windows live search by microsoft. LightSpeed (talk) 05:55, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry LightSpeed. Please check your sources and do more research before you edit. FYI a simple Google search returned this result: Microsoft PressPass: Microsoft Unveils Windows Live Search Beta. --Damaster98 (talk) 12:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

any updates

is there any updates for what the the usage share was at the end of october.