Internet search: the new better than Google Bing?

Bing updates and took the opportunity to highlight its encouraging progress, which would be on the back of Google.

Since a few days, US Internet users confident their search engine Bing of Microsoft are benefiting from a new interface. The latter is being deployed in Europe and particularly in France, and displays a redesigned home screen, more adapted to the display of the search engine on the shelves according to the Publisher. Idem, the results pages have been cleaned. On the other hand, the new community features launched in the United States have them, not even crossed the Atlantic. Idem, the search for images that have a new algorithm is not yet available here.

At the Worldwide Developers Conference, Microsoft managers responsible for Bing explained that Google sees its reputation and its brand down following the controversies that have had courses concerning its practices relating to the personal data of Internet users. They see a good opportunity for Bing to propose a relevant alternative, showing with graphics that Bing continues to gain on the back of Google market share. Thus on the past year, Bing market share would have progressed 14.38-15.41%, and even 25,63% taking into account all of the portals integrating research by Bing, as Yahoo.

Research results more sanitized...

Best, according to the exposed information, the rate of relevance of the results of Bing would for the first time surpassed those of Google. Over the past three years, Google saw its rate of relevance of 55.1% to 59.9%, while at the same time that Bing climbs from 51% to 61.4%. Unfortunately, impossible to know how these figures are obtained. And without clearly exposed methodology, this remains of the illustration without value. Damage.

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Vista and 7: better to disable widgets!

Used for years by millions of people, the Widgets in Vista and 7 are victims of security vulnerabilities.

While it learned the almost disappearance some widgets in Windows 8, replaced with dynamic tile interface Metro, Microsoft prompt users of Windows Vista and 7 to temporarily disable these Widgets after the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Indeed, malicious hackers could potentially use the existing loopholes at the level of the code managing these Widgets, without that it is known more for the time, Microsoft was not very talkative on these faults. Always is it that in its latest security bulletin, the editor indicates that it is best to disable Widgets pending a fix.

"The purpose of this alert is to inform people that Microsoft is aware of security vulnerabilities in gadgets available in the sidebar of Windows, versions of Vista and 7 running them" says Microsoft. To assist users, Microsoft provides an automatic patch that makes the settings necessary to stop any risk. Discovered by Mickey Shkatov and Toby Kohlenberg, these critical faults will be a Conference at Black Hat in Las Vegas in a few days. Microsoft thanks these two experts for their discovery, and is therefore now active to develop a patch.

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Free Mobile called to reimburse its customers and to better inform

The UFC-Que choose application Free mobile to compensate its customers and better informed on sustained networks failures.

Free Mobile has been in default by the French Union (UFC-Que choose) consumers to explain to its client on the reasons for different dysfunctions that occurred on its mobile network, but also that it is compensation for harm suffered by some subscribers.

Alain Bazot, President of the consumers association, believes that the fourth operator Mobile does communicate enough on the technical problems he meets daily from 18: 00 to 20: 00 or on large outages occur and affect a large number of subscribers through the entire France.

The UFC-Que choose suggests, therefore, that something must be done to compensate customers who have suffered these problems because it is not normal to pay for a deficient service that the tariff is low or not. Free Mobile has promised to increase the technical means put in place to deploy its mobile network and must today, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, meet Orange to take stock of their roaming agreement.

The troublemaker of the Telecom must therefore show greater transparency to its clients and partners to not get everyone back to continue to offer low-cost mobile packages but also quality if possible. Because if it can be lenient with the newcomer for a while and accept some shortcomings the time he put in place, the lack of communication and repetitive problems becomes quickly tiresome and can tarnish the image of brand in the long term. When Xavier Niel intervention as he knows so well do to calm this restlessness?

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Noctua handles better the PWM with his do-FD1

The Austrian Noctua revises its PWM chip for more silence.

The principle of the PWM in fans is not yesterday (see), regulating the temperature of the component underneath more just the speed of rotation of the blades. But Noctua improves this principle and will propose in its new range of ventirads a new generation of smart to smooth the impulses sent to the engine often generating a small audible clicks at low speed.

Technology called by the constructor is called DDS for Smooth Commutation Drive, clear rising ridges giving the impetus to fans will not net, but slightly spreading in time, thus eliminating the operation of the fan noise, particularly at low speed. Austrian engineers also worked on these chips to control energy consumption for reduce of 25 to 40% the need electricity compared to the heatpipe without PWM.

Comparison with the previous generation PWM is not specified, which can go immediately less interesting. Always is it that this advance in the field of the silence of operation of the computers is good to take.

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Google+ pages: better indexed marks and companies?

Companies, brands, associations, etc.. Are invited to come and create their page on the social networking Google +.

That's it! Pages + Google have finally launched and enable brands and businesses to use the social network. A good opportunity for Google to start catching up on the matter took abysmal on Facebook, but as always, Google + a few arguments that could help to impose its model. As for brands, companies, associations and other labels, it should go through indexing.

This is obviously relying on the firepower of its search engine to highlight those pages that will appear in + Google search results with a function specifically set up for them, called Direct Connect. This is type "+" followed by the name of the page directly in the address bar of a browser to be redirected to it. For now, this feature Direct Connect is the deployment phase, but should quickly work with all Pages.

Note that in order to avoid abuse, a Page Google + can add a person to one of his circle without that it has validated the solicitation. In business for just over three months now, Google + now boasts over 40 million members.

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