The question which is in the mind of many people is “Will Bing become a better search engine then Google after it enter in a deal with Yahoo!? We don’t know that yet but the Search and Advertising deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has been cleared by the European Commission and US Department of Justice. Many people believe that Bing will be able to compete with the search engine king, Google, once the deal is finalized.  According to DOJ, “This enhanced performance, if realized, should exert correspondingly greater competitive pressure in the marketplace”.

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If you still haven’t gotten the Bing App for iPhone, you should give it a try as soon as possible. It’s awesome. There have been reports of some issues with it, but the Bing team is actively identifying them and an updated is already in the works which will address all of them. The update will be pushed out to the App Store in the next few days for all iPhone and iPod Touch users.  Read more...

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Back in March, I had stumbled upon search history in Live Search, which was never opened to the public. It was just a mere coincidence but it did show that Microsoft plans to implement it down the road. Back then, the name Bing had not been announced and we all were speculating on the new search engine to be called Kumo.

When Bing launched, I highly expected search history to be a part of it but it wasn’t. Not that it has finally been introduced, privacy is built through out the feature. History is turned on by default for all Bing users but turning it off requires only one click. History is currently saved for the last 4 weeks only.  Read more...

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