Last October, Bing Director Stefan Weitz wrote about an encounter with a Dr. Richard Bing, who had contacted Mich Mathews, SVP of Marketing, since they had “used his name for our new search engine”.  Weitz and Sean Carver went …

Haitian Creole has just been added to the list of available translations for the Bing Translator and other Microsoft Translator powered services (including the Messenger Translation Bot):

In the current crisis in Haiti there are a number of initiatives

We already told you that Bing maps published new imagery for Haiti after the earthquake. But what about the imagery from before?

Well, they haven’t been put to waste, they got put in a new map app!

Now …

Need to bake a cake? Wondering how to prepare steak? Bing now provides detailed recipe results.

The results are pulled from a number of popular recipe websites (delish.com, MyRecipes.com, epicurious.com, etc.) and you can sift through them by cuisine, course, …

The Bing team has been working hard to improve search. One of the results is an improved autosuggest. Autosuggest helps you to find what you are looking for faster, often only a couple of keystrokes (first letters) suffice, autosuggest will …

This month’s Bing Maps release is so big they broke it in two. The January 2010 Part 1 release is 558,000 square kilometers of imagery consisting of:

• Germany’s Ruhrgebiet
• Belgium
• Luxembourg
• Vancouver – Sea to Sky Hwy to Squamish

Business Week is reporting tonight that Apple and Microsoft are in talks to replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone with Bing, as Apple and Google become increasingly more competitive: 

A deal between Apple and Microsoft may

Chris Pendleton has been a busy guy today, posting on Destination Maps and Local Events, and to top it off his latest post announces that the Bing Maps Silverlight site is now out of beta:

First off, if

Haiti got struck by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake last week (Jan 12). Many heartbreaking photos and videos can be seen all over (Internet, television, newspapers). If you wish to see an all-over picture of the disaster: Bing maps has …

With the Winter Olympics less than a month away, Streetside photography got added for Vancouver and Whistler in Canada.

Check it out!…