Microsoft to cut time holds internet search data

Microsoft's new search engine Bing, which is seeking to chip away at Google's dominance in Internet search, is teaming up with WolframAlpha, another rival for the Google crown.WolframAlpha, which was launched in mid-May, announced that starting on Wednesday, Bing would incorporate results from WolframAlpha in answers to certain search queries."WolframAlpha's knowledge, computed from expertly curated data, will enrich Bing's results in select areas across nutrition, health, and advanced mathematics," WolframAlpha said in a blog post.

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US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing.In a post on the Bing blog, Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft's online services division, said Bing.com was down from 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm Pacific time on Thursday (0230 GMT to 0300 GMT on Friday)."During this time, users were either unable to get to the site, or their queries were returning incomplete results pages," Nadella wrote.

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