We told you earlier about the Bing Summer Travel Photo Contest. The contest has now ended. Out of the 10,000 submissions 9,400 photos got accepted. That’s quite a few pictures to be reviewed and rated, 13,206 unique raters helped. …

A search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! hasn’t even been announced yet, and yet tidbits of information are being analyzed, scrutinized, and dissected all across the web.  Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web sees bad news for search innovation of the …

The first in a new series of Bing ads appeared last night in the US on the Conan O’Brien show.  Two weeks ago, Yusuf Mehdi promised the new ads, saying:

Lastly, stay tuned for a new set of Bing ads

Multiple reports are out from AdAge, The Wall Street Journal, and Kara Swisher at All Things Digital that Microsoft and Yahoo! are set to announce a search deal as early as tomorrow, Wednesday.  From AdAge:

Through the pact,

Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo! about deal that would have Microsoft’s Bing providing search technology for Yahoo! properties continue, according to an article in today’s Advertising Age:

Yahoo’s request for an upfront payment (it is said to have asked

We’ve been keeping an eye on Bing and reported some statistics, as many blogs and news sites did, here too. So now, over one month after launch, how did Bing do?

The Bing Search Blog reports the following:…

Last week we reported that the full version of Bing will arrive in Australia, Canada, China, Japan and UK soon, today we see the beginning of this series of update. The Australian and Japanese version of Bing homepage had …

Nearly 30 hours after some problems with overheated switches caused the fire system to dump water in the Fisher Plaza data center, most of the websites affected have come back online.  Here’s a description of what happened, from TechFlash:…

A blown transformer in the Fisher Plaza building (home to local ABC affiliate television station KOMO-TV and KOMO Radio) in downtown Seattle has affected a data center there, and Bing Travel among numerous other sites have been affected.  An explanation …

The Bing team is bringing a bit of Twitter to Bing search results. Not indexing all of Twitter at this time… just a small set of prominent and prolific Twitterers (a few thousand) to start. This includes Tweets from folks …