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Bing SDK for iPhone and Mac released as open source

Want to get in on all the iPhone app glory, but with the goodness of Bing?  Now you can, using the Bing iPhone and Mac SDK, available on CodePlex as open source under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).  According to …

50 Bing Tricks for Students and Librarians (and you)

onlinecolleges.net OnlineColleges.net, a website ranking and reviewing online colleges, has put together a list of 50 tips for students and librarians using Bing.  Broken down into categories such as “Finding Information”, “Research and Collaboration”, and “Images and Video”, the site …

The Virtual Earth/Bing Maps ASP .NET Control CTP – It’s Toast!

Just as the Live Framework CTP, this one will also disappear. It lasted little over a year. On the question what will happen with the Virtual Earth/Bing Maps ASP .NET Control, Chris Pendleton posted the following:

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Two months in, Bing continues upward trend

This month’s flurry of Bing stories are piling up, with today’s Comscore numbers (released to analysts today) showing Bing with a slight improvement over last month, from 8.5 to 8.9 percent US search market share.  What is perhaps …

More Bing on iPhones, and more clicks for Bing

bingLogo_reverse_lg At the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose CA yesterday, Bing senior program manager Alessandro Catorcini revealed that Microsoft is testing an Objective C wrapper that will allow iPhone application developers to add Bing search results to their applications.…

Bing in the news: Jingles, NoFollow, Pharm ads, cashback (hey all pr is good pr, right?)

If Bing’s intent is to generate buzz and keep their name in the news, it seems to be working.  Of course some news is better than others, but at least people are talking, which wasn’t the case a few months …

Bing Maps Imagery & Map Data Release, July 2009

41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers of Bird’s Eye photography has just been added to Bing Maps.

So go on to the Bing Maps World

Bing gains 1% US share in July, Google loses: StatCounter

graph In a press release issued today, web statistics firm StatCounter showed an increase in US search market share from 8.23% in June to 9.41% in July.  Google was down in the US from 78.48% in June to 77.54% in …

Bing home page featured I-35W Bridge on 2nd anniversary of collapse

Most of the time, the images on the Bing home page are pretty pictures, sometimes with topical connections, but rarely controversial. Today’s US image was a little different, before it was apparently pulled and replaced by an image of a …

Yahoo! powered by Bing, but not much more?

msftyhoodealsigning As widely expected, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal (very early) this morning, a 10 year agreement to have Bing power Yahoo! searches, with Yahoo! controlling ad sales.  Last night we asked a few questions, and by digging down …