June, 2009

Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate?

Bing! The much-hyped search engine Bing was debuted today worldwide and as a Windows Live (and anything Live or used to be Live-related) enthusiast, I’ve went and tested how well the search engine, I meant, decision engine works. We’ve heard …

Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

Today when you visit any of the Windows Live Wave 3 properties (with the exception of Family Safety and Agents), you’d have noticed the search bar on the top have been replaced with a new orange magnifying glass icon …

Oh dear, there IS a Club Bing

ClubBing Well the rebrand is thorough, we’ll say that.  Live Search Club has been renamed to Club Bing, with the highly unfortunate url of www.clubbing.com (just please no baby seal games, mmmkay?).  The “club”, basically a blatant attempt to drive up …

Surprises abound at Microsoft’s E3 Press Briefing

Microsoft started E3 on a high note yesterday, showcasing a myriad of new products, ranging from expansions of popular franchise titles (including Forza Motorsport 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Crackdown 2) to the reveal of Big Park’s latest title, a …

Zune HD to include Xbox Live games?

zunehdamazon Yesterday’s Microsoft Press Conference at E3 included a lot of news on Xbox, including some news about Zune video streaming, but did Amazon.com just make a little announcement of their own?  In a listing for the upcoming Zune HD, …

Microsoft’s Summer Of Live

OK so the official start of summer isn’t for a few weeks, but Microsoft is facing its most important period in perhaps its entire 30 year history, as initiatives in all its important consumer and online services come together.  How …

Join the Bing community

Just been clicking around in Bing, and came across a nice fresh Bing Community site, all done up in Community Server.

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The site contains a What’s New page, links to the individual search blogs (Search, Webmaster, Developer, Travel, and …

Bing goes live in multiple markets

Getting reports from all over that www.bing.com is live:

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The US is getting the Hubble telescope image that is on live.com, but for at least some other countries (we didn’t check them all), they’re getting our old friend the snow …