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Bing testing tablet-style interface

Getting some reports that a new Bing interface, much more than the home page update we reported on yesterday, is starting to surface.  The interface, looking to be quite touch friendly and similar if not the same as what Steven …

Bing changes its home page (more to come?)

Today Bing announced, via Twitter,  its continued relationship with Twitter, and when a couple of Microsoft watchers asked Bing Director Stefan Weitz (via Twitter, of course) when they could expect the long awaited Bing HTML5, he hinted that …

Twitter and Bing renew their relationship… via Twitter

@Bing and @Twitter followers got treated to an interesting back and forth today as Bing and Twitter are apparently ready to announce an extension of their relationship.  Back in July, Twitter ended a relationship with Google to use its “firehose” …

Are you a Bing “Advocate”?

Clicking through the Bing Rewards button on the Bing home page today yielded and interesting discovery, a new Bing Advocacy Program:

bing advocacy

Open to US residents 13 or over, the program is looking for charter members in a new community …

Bing Shopping improves: filter from the search box

Bing Shopping, available to US users, has made a number of improvements to the experience recently, according to a blog post on the Bing Search blog.  In addition to expanding the number of available products and adding top brands …

Bing testing inline ads in organic search results

A post on the Rimm-Kaufman Group (RKG) blog spotted some new, and perhaps controversial, ad placements on Bing organic search results: the listing of paid ads inline along with organic results, demarked only by an “ad” notifier to the right …

Here we go again, Bing changes spotted in the wild

Looks like the on again off again Bing HTML5 rumors may be on again, along with some other quite interesting changes some are reporting seeing to the Bing home page.

First, the home page changes.  Rafael Rivera posted today on …

Gigwalk to bring 3D Panoramas to Bing–from your iPhone

Gigwalk-logoBing is partnering with a new 9 week old company, Gigwalk, “the first on-demand mobile workforce” to bring 3D Photosynth panoramas of retail stores and restaurants into Bing Maps.  Gigwalk uses a mobile workforce of iPhone users who download

New Bing Weather Results

Bing recently refreshed the look and feel of Bing Weather. They are showing forecasts from multiple providers such as Weather.com, Weather Underground and AccuWeather, but that’s not all. You can now also look at the Doppler radar, evaluate the …

Bing Maps AJAX 7.0 control updated with new features

Bing Maps AJAX 7 Control iSDKIt is that time of the year again when Bing brings us a slew of new updates to their decision engine. Besides the new Bing Maps update announced a few days ago, the Bing team announced on their blog today …