A new tweak on Cydia called Cicero lets you customize your search engines in Safari. I had been waiting a long time for a tweak like this to add Bing to Safari before iOS 4. Cicero lets you add any search engine that complies with OpenSearch standards ( almost all major search engines and site specific search engines do this. for e.g. YouTube, Wikipedia etc ). This allows you to do site specific searches without loading up the website first. Blessing in disguise.
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Flickr App for iPhone Updated to Support iOS 4 Multitasking
Flickr App for iPhone has been updated to version 1.2 to support iOS 4 multitasking features such as fast app switching and background task completion. It also brings in HD video uploads for iPhone 4 users. All you Twitter junkies can post your photos to Twitter directly from within the app as well.
Yahoo iPad app screenshots
The free Yahoo App for iPad looks great, it has nearly all the good stuff that is on Yahoo.com. The look of the app from the screenshots is excellent. It will have all the news for you with all the sports updates and don’t forget, business and entertainment news as well.
Will Bing Become a Better Search Engine After Yahoo-Microsoft Deal?
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”.
Bing’s slow and steady market share increase against Google
Bing seems to have made quiet an impact ever since it was launched. The recent deal between Microsoft and Yahoo will further strengthen Bing’s position and market share down the road. But currently, it’s making tiny but meaningful inroads into Google’s market share.
Microsoft and Yahoo! finalize search agreement for 10 years
Yahoo and Microsoft have an announced an agreement to improve web search for users and advertisers. After months of speculations and many talks, Micro-hoo has finally come to be. Microsoft will be powering Yahoo! search with Bing, where as Yahoo! will be the international exclusive representative for both companies’ premium search advertisers.
Apps for Windows: New Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox
Yahoo has released a new Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox with features aimed at making information easily and quickly available specially if it’s a part of any Yahoo service. Available for Internet Explorer 6+ and in beta for Firefox, the new toolbar takes a clue out of Internet Explorer 8 Web Slices and MSN Toolbar and provides a new Preview and Go feature. You can add more apps from Yahoo! and other third party ones to customize your toolbar with the information you want.
Download Official ‘BingTones’ for your Phone!
What do Google and Yahoo don’t have? Ringtones! Microsoft has released BingTones for Bing. You can download them for free and have various voices go ‘Bing, Bing’ whenever your phone rings or you get a message. I am not a very ringtone-changing person, but I have found my new BingTones. 
Download them here.
Bing officially announced by Microsoft
Bing has been officially announced by Microsoft at D7 today. Bing.com isn’t working yet, as it’ll begin to roll out over the coming days and fully deployed worldwide on the 3rd of June. A lot of research has been done by Microsoft to come with Bing and improvements in search. Some of the new features in Bing are:
- Best Match where the best answer is surfaced and called out
- Deep Links allowing more insight into what resources a particular site has to offer
- Quick Preview a hover-over window that expands over a search result caption to provide a better sense of the related site’s relevancy.
- one-click access to information through Instant Answers.
- Explore Pane a dynamically relevant set of navigation and search tools on the left side of the page
- Web Groups which groups results in intuitive ways both on the Explore Pane and in the actual results
- Related Searches and Quick Tabs which is essentially a table of contents for different categories of search results.
- Bing Decision Engine for assistance in decision making
- Rate Key compares the location, price and amenities of multiple hotels and provides a color-coded key of the best values
- Price Predictor actually helps consumers decide when to buy an airline ticket in order to get the lowest prices.
Update: Here are some images of Bing as posted by TechCrunch
Update 2: Long Zheng posted a video tour of Bing. Also a letter by the Bing Team is posted on http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html . Quoted below
You probably didn’t wake up today expecting an entirely new search experience.
But — Bing! — here it is.
So, why a new search engine? Why the new name? Why now?
Well, because even though search is a pretty amazing thing, the current state of search engines has some equally amazing statistics.
So far in 2009, there are four and a half websites created EVERY SECOND as the web continues to expand. While more searchable information is cool, nearly half of all searches don’t result in the answer that people are seeking.
At the same time, the way the world searches is changing. You want more than just information. You want knowledge that leads to action.
The truth is you’ve evolved. It’s time search caught up.
So we had an idea. Start over. And we did.
We took a new approach to go beyond search to build what we call a decision engine. With a powerful set of intuitive tools on top of a world class search service, Bing will help you make smarter, faster decisions. We included features that deliver the best results, presented in a more organized way to simplify key tasks and help you make important decisions faster.
And features like cashback, where we actually give you money back on great products, and Price Predictor, which actually tells you when to buy an airline ticket in order to help get you the best price — help you make smarter decisions, and put money back in your pocket.
We sincerely hope that the next time you need to make an important decision, you’ll Bing and decide.
Thank you,
Bing Team, Microsoft
SearchTogether Beta from Microsoft Research
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