Just saw a tweet by Doc Searls (who likes the Birds Eye View) saying that the Bing Map Server  was “temporarily unavailable”, so we checked and found a new interface:

The navigation bars look to be simplified, and “Get Directions” …

The first of what will probably be a bunch of new holiday themed Bing commercials just popped up, a variation on the “all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth” theme, with a poor kid just wanting (go …

Another 9,460 square kilometers of imagery has been released onto Bing Maps. This month’s release showcases high precision imagery for the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom. The biggest drop by far was Greater Vancouver Metro…

Check out the …

Looks like the avalanche of pre Christmas Windows and Bing ads are about upon us, as Microsoft unveiled the latest “Decision Engine” ad on their YouTube channel today:

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Bing: the Vampire Engine, on YouTube

Apparently vampires prefer Portland, Oregon …

Our good friend Long Zheng just posted a series of Australian TV ads for Bing.com.au, one of which he spotted while taking a rare break from reading patent applications and Microsoft Careers posts:

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Bing on Aussie TV

Long …

In an exclusive, Kara Swisher from All Things Digital is reporting that Microsoft is set to announce deals with both Twitter and Facebook that will incorporate both Twitter feeds and Facebook status updates into Bing.  Details are sketchy at this …

Well Microsoft did indeed announce partnerships with Twitter and Facebook today (and shortly after, Marissa Mayer over at Google followed suit, announcing their own partnership with Twitter).  As quoted by MG Siegler at TechCrunch, here’s what Dr. Qi Lu …

While we can have all kinds of fun with numbers about search market share in the US, there’s no getting around the fact that Google dominates.  However in China, the search market landscape is quite a bit different than the …

This month’s numbers for Bing US market share are in, with comScore the latest to report, and while the major reporting services disagree on the exact numbers, the concensus probably is that Bing’s initial push has slowed down.  We reported …

(Well we spent an eventful morning deleting hundreds of new user accounts that were created solely to fill their bios with spam links.  We’ve set our new user creation to Admin Approval for now, which is less than optimal, we …