LiveSide reader Gilly2468 noticed an interesting tidbit in a Bing tweet from Fareologist this week, a Binged.IT url shortener:

Gilly has more on his (very nice looking, btw!) My Microsoft Life blog.  URL shorteners are becoming quite popular …

The latest US search market share numbers from comScore, Hitwise, and Nielsen are out, and depending on who you believe, Bing is either up slightly, or down slightly, Yahoo! continues a downward trend, and Google just keeps on …

A new post on the Bing search blog highlights some nice new features in Instant Answers for health related queries, including content from partners and new hard-to-discover search results.  Here’s a Bing search on h1n1:

The new Instant …

While we can’t say we took the time to watch this year’s “Crunchies”, the TechCrunch awards given out for the past 3 years now, we’re happy to report that Bing took away the honors for Best New Startup or Product …

More than 274,000 square kilometers of imagery got added to Bing Maps in December: 33,520 sq. km of Bird’s Eye photos and 240,739 sq. km of Aerial.

In the above screenshot, taken from the Bing Maps World Tour Application, …

Bing has been quietly updating features since its last major update last month, with new looks for stock price and movie searches.  An announcement on the Bing blog pointed out the movie search feature:

In addition to the recent events

The Nielsen Company just released their November US Search share numbers, with Bing continuing a slow climb up the charts.  Nielsen last month changed their methodology, so comparisons before last month aren’t relevant, but here are the numbers for the …

Surely you know about the United Nations 15th Climate Change Conference (COP15), which is taking place right now. But did you know that Microsoft has sent a delegation of issue and technology experts to support COP15?

That group is …

Some good Bing news today, on three fronts.  First, some new numbers from comScore (no press release yet, so far just numbers shared from Silicon Alley Insider) show continued incremental growth for Bing (and Google), and continued decline from …

Now that’s moving fast.  Microsoft just unveiled Streetside  a couple of weeks ago and already developers can start to use images from Streetside and enhanced bird’s eye.

Chris Pendleton has a blog post up detailing how to use the new …