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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 …

Our first look at Bing: 5 things that stand out

We haven’t been able to get our hands on Bing until today,  and we’ll have more as we dig deeper into it, but we wanted to give you some quick first impressions.  There’s lots of promotion for “the decision engine” …

Some quick takes on Bing

Well the story we’ve been following for the past year, the rebranding of Live Search, reached a big milestone today with the announcement (finally) of the new name, Bing.  While the name itself has yet to grow on us, we …

Carol Bartz, CEO Of Yahoo!, Willing To Sell Search For “Boatloads Of Money”

In an entertaining, slightly off color, and by some accounts inspiring performance at D: the All Things Digital conference, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz left the door open for a search deal.  That deal would have to be made …

LiveSide registration temporarily unavailable, sorry

We’re having a little issue currently with our user registration as some jokers try to take advantage of our generous registration policies.  While we continue to figure out how to best deal with the problem (and clear out the hundreds …

Some more on Bing.com – that confusing trademark will soon become Blinko

Microsoft acquired Bing.com in March, and has a network all set up:

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but as we reported last week, there’s that pesky little US Patent and Trademark Office to get around.  The problem is with Bing Mobile, which is …

Setting the (search) stage this week: New name, new version, new partnership?

This is a big week or so for Microsoft, and for Live Search.  According to reports from the Wall St. Journal, the widely anticipated new version of Live Search, code named Kumo, is set to be unveiled at D: …

US Trademark Office rejects Bing – “likelihood of confusion”

In a document filed this morning and mailed to Microsoft, the US Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Microsoft’s filing of “Bing” as a trademark name for “computer search engine software; graphical user interface software, namely, toolbar software for use …

Hotmail shuts down mobile browser access, for now

Hotmail has shut down access to mail through a mobile browser via m.mail.live.com, a service that we told you about when it debuted in February.  According to a short post on the Hotmail team blog, the service is undergoing …