Bing

Bing Homepage Photos Coming To More Markets + Photo Contest! [updated]

One of the favorite features of Bing for many users is the daily image that appears on the homepage each day. Whilst not yet available in every country, this will change! According to this blogpost, international markets will also …

Kayak and the Philanthropist: Bing backlash?

By all early accounts, and granted it is VERY early, Bing is doing well.  The buzz seems strong, the numbers are good, and if nothing else people are taking a look at Bing where they didn’t pay Live Search any …

Bing: The “Old New Thing” *

* (apologies to Raymond Chen)

Another day, and another A-List blogger “discovers” the “launch” of a Bing feature, which of course has been in Live Search for ages.  This time it’s Jason Calacanis, who posted news of the

Bing shows early promise (but is blocked, again, in China)

It hasn’t even been two weeks since Bing was launched, but a number of services are reporting numbers that seem to show an uptick in interest in the rebranded search product from Microsoft.

Compete.com, in a blog post today, …

Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing….

binglogo_5F00_thumb_5F00_01EE3C3B[1] Yes, more Bing. We didn’t want to keep this info from you.

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Did Bing just Leapfrog Yahoo Search? Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing, Microsoft’s new decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number …

Bing launch wrap up

binglogo Bing launched this week, revealing the new name and “decision engine” tagline,  a new more organized layout for search results, tighter integration for verticals like Shopping (including Bing cashback), Travel (including the Farecast technology for predicting airfares and now hotel …

Dr. Qi Lu at SMX Advanced

At SMX Advanced, Danny Sullivan spent an interesting 45 minutes talking with Qi Lu about Bing.  For his first time in public, Lu was engaging but serious about the job ahead, while seeming relaxed and comfortable onstage with Sullivan.  They …

Boys and girls, the first Bing commercial

Thanks to one of our alert readers, we get our first look at a Bing commercial:

More information on the Bing Virtual Presskit page on Microsoft Press Pass

Of course it’s a natural that we’d get the cute little “Bing” …

Join the Bing community

Just been clicking around in Bing, and came across a nice fresh Bing Community site, all done up in Community Server.

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The site contains a What’s New page, links to the individual search blogs (Search, Webmaster, Developer, Travel, and …

Bing goes live in multiple markets

Getting reports from all over that www.bing.com is live:

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The US is getting the Hubble telescope image that is on live.com, but for at least some other countries (we didn’t check them all), they’re getting our old friend the snow …