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New Bing Map App: Tour De France 2010

imageAnother sporty Bing Map App got released yesterday, this time for cycling fans. Le Tour de France runs from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010. The 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and …

New Bing Map App: Imagine Cup 2010

imageThe Imagine Cup 2010 finalists are in. Open to students around the world, the Imagine Cup is a serious challenge that draws serious talent, and the competition is intense. The contest spans a year, beginning with local, regional and online …

MSNbot to become Bingbot on Oct. 1st. 2010

On October 1st, 2010, the Bing web crawler will come out of beta. At that time the crawler will also be rebranded from msnbot to bingbot.

The updated user agent will be:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0 +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)

The HTTP header From …

Bing’s first year: good for advertisers?

In a newsletter sent out to Bing advertisers, Microsoft Advertising shared some good news about the first year of Bing:

  • Bing advertisers are reaching a motivated audience; Bing searchers spend 42 percent more than the average search user in the

Bing–Born to be Wild?–the new Bing Mobile commercial

Next up after Los Links, and perhaps with a nod to Bing Entertainment, is the latest commercial for Bing, a play on the movie Easy Rider:

In case you might not have been paying attention back in 1969 …

2 New Bing categories to explore–Finance and University

Last night we posted a new UI for Bing.com/explore, which weirdly enough has reverted back to the old style, at least for now.  Here’s what we saw last night:

bingsummer2-explore

If you notice, there are two new categories that show …

The Bing Summer Update: new look, Entertainment focus

As it turns out, instead of flying to LA for the Bing with Ryan Seacrest show, that annoying “real life” needed a bit of tending to, and so we’re here catching up on all the news of the day coming …

New Bing mobile site, Facebook results, and Yahoo!(?): tips from all over!

Bing is set to announce its Spring update next week at an event in Los Angeles, but we’re already getting tips from all over spotting new stuff. First up is a new mobile experience (at leas from Zune HDs, can …

Are you The King Of Bing Maps?

imageWe already mentioned it briefly here, The King Of Bing Maps Contest. This week Chris Pendleton wrote a bit more about it and said that, on top of the prizes, he’ll promote the winner and his/her app:

– the

Bing comes to Opera

Bing has struck a deal with Opera: Bing will be one of the default search engines. This already holds true in the beta version that got released today. image
Using Bing as your search provider is as easy as clicking …