Bing

Free webcast for map developers

imageBing Maps developers will discuss Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks in a free 40 minute webcast at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 1.

The webcast is presented by:

RICKY BRUNDRITT –CEO

New from Bing: sponsored tiles, and what’s “Azure on the Go?”

We just got done watching a “Whiteboard Friday” video segment from SEO software maker SEOmoz, with CEO Rand Fishkin in a lighthearted half hour with Bing Director Stefan Weitz, who start off talking about the paid links problems surrounding …

Bing Bar: Quick first impressions: Can we learn to love a toolbar?

Bing just released their new-version toolbar that they’re calling the Bing Bar, and as usual, even before installing it, as with any toolbar we had an instant negative reaction.  Toolbars, yuck.  They’re slow, they take up valuable real estate, and …

Bing releases the new “Bing Bar”, just for Matt Cutts

Well, ok, maybe Matt Cutts of Google won’t be too excited about this, after all.  But Bing has just released a new “Bing Bar” anyway.

The new toolbar, available here, adds some nice new features, including Facebook integration, …

Hey, Bing has a Like Button!

We just fired up Bing to look for a Nokia logo for our last post, and noticed what we think is something new on the Bing home page, a Facebook Like Button:

bing-like

The button allows you to “Like” the day’s …

Hitwise: Bing US search share up 21% (over 2 percentage points), Google down

Well it’s that time of the month when the US search market share reports start showing up, and first up this month is Hitwise.  They’re showing some strong increases for Bing, and a decline for Google.  Here’s the main chart, …

UK website promotes Bing

Been seeing a lot of positive reaction to a new website from the UK that promotes Bing.  The site, www.thisbeautifulthing.co.uk, in all its full Flash glory, walks us through a number of the more popular (and in this promotion, …

Bing vs. Google, some (final?) thoughts: What was Matt Cutts thinking?

All week we’ve been sorting through the many many blog posts, videos, and reports on the can of worms that Matt Cutts and the engineers at Google opened up last Monday when they went to Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan …

Bing Box for site owners to be discontinued on April 4

Live Search BoxThe Bing Developer team recently posted on their blog announcing that the "Bing Box" functionality on bing.com/siteowner will be discontinued on April 4, 2011. Websites that attempt to query the Bing Box will be redirected to a 404 page. Rather, …

Matt Cutts is pissed: Should Microsoft respond?

It’s pretty apparent that Google thinks they caught Bing with their hand in the cookie jar, and they’re not happy.  Or at least Matt Cutts isn’t, although if you believe the likes of Kara Swisher at All Things D, …