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Bing launches “Editors’ Picks”

As first reported by Microsoft News this weekend, Bing has launched a new service designed to enhance your experience on Bing, officially announced today as Editors’ Picks.  By compiling lists of editorially selected sites for certain topics, to …

Microsoft close to 4% of UK search market

Experian Hitwise UK, a web analytics company, has today announced that Microsoft is getting close to 4% of the search market in the UK. This news is apparent in the company’s latest finding which show that Bing increased it’s …

Another US search market share report: Bing shows slow growth

comScore has released its latest US Search Engine rankings, and while Bing had climbed from 8.4% when the rebranding was launched in June 2009, October marks another month where Microsoft’s search offering has failed to gain much share.  Bing’s …

Bing Maps gets new sharing features and route planning improvements

BingOn the official Bing blog today, Microsoft announced two new features rolling out this week to its Bing Maps service which lets you share your Bing Maps results easier than ever – regardless of whether you’re sharing it with friends, …

Bing announces Bing Central: new ways to earn Bing Rewards, preferences all in one place

Today Bing has announced a new look for the way you interact with Bing, called Bing Central.  Now, you can manage your Bing Rewards points (and earn new ones in what they’re calling “missions”), as well as manage all of …

Bing announces new “hybrid” mobile apps

Bing just announcedbing-logo-horiz what its calling the “next step in the evolution of Bing for Mobile”, combining HTML5 and the mobile web browsing experience and the unique capabilities of app experiences that are now “hiding” within each mobile platform.

The …

Microsoft announces Firefox with Bing

bffLast year, Mozilla added Bing as a search engine option to Firefox, but today they’ve gone quite a bit farther, releasing a complete download, Firefox with Bing, available as an option through Mozilla, according to a post on the

Bing Translator to be integrated with eBay, Trip Advisor and more

Microsoft TranslatorA few weeks ago we told you about a new Facebook inline translation service powered by Bing Translator. Well it turns out there will be more websites joining the ranks of Facebook to integrate Bing Translator on their websites. …

Bing looks to launch (another) Bing Deals offering

bing-logo-horizTechCrunch has spotted what apparently is a new offering from Bing, “Bing Deals”.  This is a separate offering than the Bing Deals aggregation site we wrote about last month.  While they both appear to be called “Bing Deals” (maybe …

More on the Bing back-end platform: Bing Cosmos and SCOPE

Last week we reported that Microsoft is currently rolling out the “Tiger” search indexing platform for Bing. Well there’s more to Microsoft’s investments in the Bing back-end platform than just indexing. According to Mary Jo Foley, there’s two …