The Bing team has released a beta version of “Bing Desktop” that allows you to search from your desktop and also sets Bing’s image as desktop background each day. Bing Desktop is a simple & tiny app weighing 1.4 MB, offers unobtrusive search box to query Bing search engine without opening the browser. Bing Desktop [...]
Bing rolls out Linked Pages
Bing has taken step toward to enhance social search and unveiled a new feature called Linked Pages that lets you manage Bing search results related to you. Using this feature, your friends looking for you online can find what you want them to find. It also allows you to link pages to your friends to help them. [...]
“Bing is for Doing” – Are you sure?
The Bing Team has started a new campaign named “Bing is for Doing” featuring winter sports athletes doing amazing things. Bing has shared Kevin’s inspiring story [video] featuring how he embodies the spirit of doing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8NUda4AU-I Kevin Pearce, who was on the path to the 2010 Olympics before a tragic snowboarding accident left him with [...]
Bing’s new Visual Search powered by Silverlight is introduced
Search engines war is still continuing. Today Microsoft has announced Bing’s new Visual Search feature powered by Silverlight. Visual Search formulates and refines your search queries through imagery, particularly for sets of results that tend to be more structured. You can try out it by simply go to www.bing.com/visualsearch and install Silverlight if you don’t [...]
MSN Toolbar reinvented with Bing Search
The most popular toolbar for Internet Explorer has been reinvented and incorporates features of Bing search engine. In addition, it also allows search on other Bing services such as Images, Video, News, Shopping, Maps, Travel and XRank. MSN Toolbar also incorporates Windows Live features such Hotmail, Messenger and Windows Live ID. When signed in to [...]
Bing Product Guidelines released
Microsoft has made available Bing Product Guidelines on the Microsoft Download Center. This guideline provides visual guidelines and recommendations to implement the branding for Bing for third parties. These guidelines can help echo the Bing product brand experience into your environment. Topics include: Bing branding guidelines Bing searchbox guidelines Bing searchbox guidelines for third party [...]
Add Bing Search (Search Connector) to Windows 7
Microsoft announced a seamless solution for integrating Bing directly into your Windows 7 Windows Explorer, so that you can search the Internet just the way you search for files and folders in Windows Explorer now. How To: 1. Download the Bing Open Search description document. 2. Double-click the downloaded document. This will automatically add the [...]
Bing and decide, Why should you bing it?
A month ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 unveiled Bing Search and defined it as DECISION ENGINE. In all sense Bing is a replacement of Live Search and MSN Search. It previewed on June 1st 2009 and then went fully online on June 3rd 2009 across the world. It has lots of [...]
Microsoft rebrands its Search Engine as Bing.com
Microsoft unveiled Bing, a new Decision Engine and consumer brand, providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster, more informed decisions. Bing is specifically designed to build on the benefits of today’s search engines but begins to move beyond this experience with a new approach to user experience and [...]