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Autosuggest includes search history

Autosuggest on Bing now supports query history. That means that if you are performing a search, autosuggest will show you previous search queries in the same color your browser uses to display visited links (purple). It even does so …

Bing Maps at TED – Blaise’s session now available

Blaise Aguera y Arcas showed off some very cool new stuff from Bing Maps at TED a couple of days ago, and the video has just been posted, so here it is:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/766

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Bing Maps Imagery Release, February 2010

In this release over one million square kilometers of new imagery got added. This is a very special release because, for the first time ever, Enhanced Bird’s Eye imagery got added outside of the United States!

Bird’s Eye: Italy –

Bing, TED, and “spatial search”: more cool new stuff from Bing Maps

We should have known something was up since Stefan Weitz and Betsy Aoki have been hanging out and tweeting from TED, and sure enough today Bing Maps Architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas got up and showed off the latest in …

One more thing from Bing: Winter Games Map app

Not to be outdone by the other Winter Games features, Bing Maps has introduced a Bing Maps Winter Games app, which shows you venues, news and blogs, Tweets, and even medal counts from the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. …

Silverlight, MSN, Bing, and the Winter Olympics

nbcolympics The Winter Olympics, this year held in Vancouver, B.C., are just a few days away, and promise to be the most internet friendly Olympics, so far (especially if you’re in the US, we’re checking on the non-US story).  NBC Universal …

Bing to Enhance search on Facebook; end advertising partnership

Just announced today on the Bing blog is news that Microsoft’s Bing will deepen its relationship with Facebook on search, and “will soon provide Facebook users with a more complete search experience by providing full access to great Bing features …

Bing Maps Imagery Release, January 2010 (Part 2)

The second part of the January Bing Maps imagery release (total January release: over 1 million sq. km.) has just been released. This time containing 446,000+ square kilometers of new ortho imagery for:

  • Brisbane (Australia)
  • Brisbane International Airport Area (Australia)

Bing: “built out to be a much larger player”, will be profitable, says Yusuf Mehdi

binglogo In an interview posted today at Reuters, Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President, Online Audience Business, talked about the Yahoo! search deal, profitability, MSN, AOL, and more.  Mehdi expects closing the Yahoo! search deal to be a milestone moment, saying …

Bing improvements: Twitter Maps, Investor info, and a Mars game

A couple of Bing news items from the Bing blog, and one from Microsoft Fuse Labs.  First, from Fuse Labs at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development offices comes word of some improvements to one of the Bing Maps apps, …