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...undisputed Sultan of Search, a company whose name has become a verb, Google accounts for about 65% of all online searches in the U.S, according to comScore Inc. But Google's comfortable dominance may be in for its most serious challenge in years with the debut of Bing, Microsoft's new search engine. Launched in June with a marketing and advertising blitz that reportedly cost Microsoft $80 million, Bing has come out of the gate strong, adding two percentage points to Microsoft's 8.4% search share in its first week of operation. (See pictures of work and life at Google...
...huge boost with this week's announcement of a search and advertising partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo!. If the deal goes through next year as planned, a combined Microsoft-Yahoo! platform will account for about 28% of online searches in the U.S., all of them run through Bing's underlying technology...
...issue. Web monitors report that some 6,000 chat rooms and message boards in China have been blocked by censors known collectively as the "Great Firewall." In addition, social-networking services like Twitter, the photo-sharing site Flickr and even Microsoft's new would-be Google-rival search engine, Bing, have all been blocked - a first for China. (Read a TIME story from 1989 on Tiananmen...
...urgency has sparked calls for reform. He Bing, a professor at the China University of Politics and Law in Beijing, suggests that the current system be scrapped. The academic believes that peddlers should be given more flexibility to sell their goods and that the chengguan should concentrate on more pressing urban issues. "Street vendors are an important part of the market economy and directly contribute to the GDP," says He. "There are also other merits - cheap street markets cater to low-income families, add color to city life, utilize public space and create jobs...
ELECTED NBA legend Dave Bing, 65, won Detroit's mayoral race, unseating scandal-ridden Kwame Kilpatrick's interim replacement, Ken Cockrel...