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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Permalink: Will Bing Become a Better Search Engine After Yahoo-Microsoft Deal?

I recently stumbled across this official gadget by Microsoft for Bing. As excited as I was, I was disappointed to find out that it’s a very simple gadget that only shows suggestions and opens up the search results in the browser. The drop down suggestions aren’t even visual, i.e. you wont see image suggestions or the weather by typing in ‘New York weather’ like you get in Internet Explorer 8’s search box.  Read more...

Permalink: Download the Bing Sidebar Gadget for Windows 7

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...

Permalink: Bing iPhone App getting update to fix issues

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...

Permalink: Bing introduces search history but respects privacy more than Google.

As expected,the iPhone app for Bing is finally out and its everything you wanted it to be. An official Bing app was already available for Windows phones, Blackberry and Sidekicks and now iPhone users can also enjoy Bing on their phones. The app mimics the feel of Bing’s website, featuring an image a day with its related trivia.  Read more...

Permalink: Bing app out for the iPhone

The Microsoft principal group program manager David Raissipour all but confirmed that they’re working on a Bing app for the iPhone. He said that Microsoft is working on the iPhone app which will have more than just mapping and search, but declined to give a time line for the release. Ina Fried also questioned the inclusion of mapping features that have been implemented using Silverlight in Bing, for the iPhone app and the answer was "It’s certainly possible".  Read more...

Permalink: Official Bing app for iPhone coming soon

Bing team really seems to be active these days. Yesterday they made an update to Bing Maps. Today, they have announced Bing Videos. Bing Videos attempts to bring an all new unified online video portal, and deliver to its users a comprehensive, organized and high quality video experience. The complete roll out of Bing Video will take place in stages.  Read more...

Permalink: Bing Videos, an attempt to increase Bing’s market share

Did you see Bing Maps today?. If not, then you should go ahead and have a look at it by yourself. You will get a surprise, a pleasant one that is. The reason being, Bing Maps Interface just got cooler than before. Bing team has revamped the look and feel of Bing maps giving it a slicker look.  Read more...

Permalink: Bing Maps get a new look

Microsoft CodePlex has just released BingPaper. BingPaper is a small, simple and useful application that downloads the current Bing Image and sets it as your wallpaper. With BingPaper, gone are the days where you were required to right click on a particular Bing Image, save it and then set it as your desktop background.  Read more...

Permalink: BingPaper : An application that downloads and sets the latest Bing image as your wallpaper

While there has been an app for almost everything in the App Store, it was missing an app which would let you search using Bing. The only search engine choices available in the Mobile Safari browser included in the iPhone OS are Yahoo and Google. These two are locked in, so you can’t add bing or Wikipedia if you wish to ( which is a pathetic thing ). Thankfully, this app called bingGo lets you use Bing search for web, images, videos, news and even maps in a very convenient way. Some might even mistake it for an official app by the Bing team, it’s that good.  Read more...

Permalink: Search using Bing on your iPhone/iPod Touch through bingGo