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Bing dropping Beta tags?

LiveSide users, coming from all around the world, are quick to point out to us their pain when Microsoft and especially Bing features are released for US only markets, so hopefully here’s some encouraging news.  It looks like at least …

Bing HTML5 preview to coincide with IE9 launch?

Back in September 2010, Microsoft revealed to the world the first beta of Internet Explorer 9, and along with it they demoed a version of Bing running HTML5-enabled code. While they promised that the HTML5-enabled version of Bing will …

Kayak partners with Bing: drinks kool-aid

kayakBing and Kayak, the “travel search engine” have announced a partnership today, similar to partnerships Bing has established with Facebook, Twitter, and Wolfram Alfa. From an email to LiveSide.net promoting the new partnership:
 
Today, Bing Travel and KAYAK

Bing partners with DealMap to bring Groupon, LivingSocial, more deals to Bing and m.bing.com

Bing is announcing today a partnership with Dealmap to bring offers from the leading online coupon providers (Groupon, LivingSocial, Restaurant.com to name a few) directly into Bing via desktop search or m.bing.com via HTML5 compatible phones (iPhone or Android, but …

Bing sows seeds with Farmville ad, reaps 400,000 fans in one day

FarmVille_logo(Update) Sorry to report that we got a bit fooled by someone retweeting this info – it did happen, but a year ago.  Our mistake!

Adweek is reporting that a single advertisement placed on Farmville netted the upstart search engine …

Bing expands natural language search: query by price

Today Bing is unveiling some improvements to the way you can search using natural language queries, adding the ability to query by price.  For example, a query for “laptops under $500” will filter out any higher price laptops, eliminating …

Bing brings Price Predictors to the search box

Bing already provides quick price predictions for some major US markets using its Farecast technology, but today they’re introducing an even faster way to get predictions and quick flight cost information, this time right from within the search bar:…

Bing rolls out Facebook Like results for all US users

In a blog post today, The Bing Team has announced that Facebook Like results for any of the URLs returned by the Bing algorithmic search results will now be included in US search results:

If your friends have publicly liked

Bing Tiles update and clarification: they’re not “sponsored”

Just received some new information about Bing Tiles, coming from a Microsoft spokesperson, and they were kind enough to send over some screenshots.  As you can see, the Tiles appear on the right, as Stefan Weitz whiteboarded, and …

Bing Tiles: 45 Content Providers bringing sponsored “tiles” to organic search results, coming soon

Bing is in testing to begin a wider launch for Bing Tiles, which will be interactive icons placed next to “authoritative” links in organic search results.  We first heard about Tiles in a video interview with Bing Director Stefan Weitz …