Google and Mozilla have struck a search deal for another three years. Google will be paying a little bit under $300 million to renew the deal. This is a huge jump from a previous arrangement that Google had with Mozilla. Google had to outbid other companies like Microsoft and Yahoo! for the search deal. The $900 million agreement is the minimum revenue guarantee for delivering search queries that will be garnered by consumers using Firefox.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has created a new mobile map browsing feature to Bing.com. This will make it easy to find your favorite retail stores in a mall. I often times find myself visiting malls in random places, so having this feature accessible on my mobile device would make my life easier.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has a close-knit relationship with Facebook. In October 2007, Microsoft invested $240 million into Facebook for 1.6% in equity. Now Bing users will see search results that are influenced by Facebook friends. If you find a website on Bing that your Facebook friends like, then you will see a widget that indicates a thumbs up next to it.

It wasn’t too long ago when Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) was dangling a $44 billion acquisition offer for Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). After Yahoo! strutted away, Microsoft decided to revamp their own search engine and named it Bing.com. This past week, Bing.com surpassed Yahoo!’s market. In Charlie Sheen words, Microsoft is #winning. Google remains on top at number one with a 90 percent market share.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has partnered with travel search engine KAYAK.com. In the next few weeks Bing Travel will aggregate travel search engine data gathered from KAYAK.com. Bing Travel is also best known for a service known as Farecast. Farecast charts flight prices and makes predictions based on whether now is a good time to buy a flight or hold out. This is especially useful now considering that oil prices are at an all-time high and domestic airlines have increased prices for the 6th time in a row. [Bing Community Blog]

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has redesigned their toolbar and is calling it the “Bing Bar.” The Bing Bar is like a social dashboard where you can read the news, read Facebook updates, check the weater, analyze stocks, etc. The information is gathered from drop-down windows. There isn’t a Mac version available for the Bing Bar yet. It only works with Internet Explorer as of right now. [SearchEngineLand]

Microsoft Senior Vice President of the Online Services Division Yusuf Mehdi took some time today to clarify Google’s accusations about Bing copying their search results. Mehdi said that Bing does not copy results from competitors ever.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is accusing Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) of copying their search results. Google has a sting operation that proves that Bing watches what people search for on Google and the results that they select. Microsoft then uses these results to improve Bing’s own search results. Google compared this to one person leaning over and copying off another student’s exam.