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New Bing-Facebook ads debut on Bing’s Facebook page

Today saw the “premiere” two new Bing ads, posted on Bing’s Facebook page.  The ads, of course, celebrate Bing’s new relationship with Facebook “Likes”, which itself debuted earlier this week.  The first one has a group of Facebook …

No more Silverlight for Bing Webmaster Tools?

webmaster-toolsBarry Schwartz at Search Engine RoundTable has noticed something interesting, although there doesn’t seem to be any official news about it (although Webmaster Tools PM Duane Forrester retweeted the news): Bing Webmaster Tools, which up until recently required …

Bing Maps aerial imagery theme – United States

Get breathtaking views of the United States delivered to your desktop with this free Windows 7 theme that captures the best of Bing Maps aerial photography. Once downloaded, this dynamic theme updates automatically through an RSS feed. For more …

Bing goes Social–new Bing Bar, more, available now

Well it looks like Bing gave up on trying to squelch the news and just went ahead and officially announced tomorrow’s today’s big announcement– Bing is now quite the Social animal, thanks to an expanded partnership with Facebook via the …

Bing to announce new Facebook social features

This morning, a press release was published to the Microsoft News Center, and Tom Warren from WinRumors.com was quick enough to grab the url.  The release (and Tom’s tweet with the url) was quickly pulled, but thanks to Bing cached

A Nokia Powered Bing Maps…shocking? Not so much

Bing “launches” Like–that is, if you haven’t had it for months

Yesterday Ad Age posted that Bing, next Tuesday, will be launching the inclusion of Like buttons on search results.  Ad Age says:

The updated service, which launches Tuesday, will incorporate data from the largest social network, which has become a

Rumor: Microsoft and Baidu to reach a search deal in China

Bing and BaiduAccording to Business Insider, a Chinese press DoNews.com is reporting that Microsoft is closing in on a deal with Baidu, currently China’s largest search engine, as soon as this coming weekend. According to the site:

Microsoft is close to

Bing continues incremental search share rise

The new comScore US search market share numbers are out for April, and they show another incremental (13.9% to 14.1%) rise.  The rising trend, starting basically back when Bing was announced in June 2009, is accompanied this time by …

Bing Maps: AJAX 7.0 Interactive SDK

To make it easier on developers to find corresponding code and events for use in applications, the Bing Maps team has released an interactive SDK for their AJAX Control 7.0.

AJAX 7.0 interactive SDK

The left hand navigation shows you all the major features …