Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing….

By Sunshine on June 8, 2009 5:45 PM

8 comments

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

Statistics

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 two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.

The company’s analysis for Thursday finds that in the U.S. Bing overtook Yahoo to take second place on 16.28%, with Yahoo Search currently at 10.22%.

API

Bing has an API. Like the Bing service itself, the API is a re-branded and enhanced version of the Microsoft’s Live Search API. Just days before the official Bing launch, the API was updated with many of the features of the new Bing service. That earlier announcement for Live Search 2.0 has the highlights:

Developers can now request data in JSON and XML formats. The SOAP interface that the Live Search API required has also been retained.
Requested data can be narrowed to one of the following source types: web, news, images, phonebook, spell-checker, related queries, and Encarta instant answer.
It is now possible to send requests in OpenSearch-compliant RSS format for web, news, image and phonebook queries.
Client applications will be able to combine any number of different data source types into a single request with a single query string.

The Bing API is part of a larger set of web application development services called “Project Silk Road.” In a world where APIs are often limited in many ways, it’s notable that in addition to these technical updates that Microsoft has removed the API usage quotas found in the Live Search API, with just the requirement that it be used for “user-facing applications” only. Note that the terms of use have also been loosed to allow more flexible presentation options such as no restrictions on ordering and blending search results.

More detailed information on features specific to the various data source types can be found at the MSDN website.

Source

Ringtones, ehh scuse me, Bingtones

If you love Bing, try downloading any of these official Bing ringtones to your mobile phone. Though Microsoft has provided these Bing ringtones for Windows Mobile devices, the files are in MP3 format and therefore should work just fine on other mobile phones as well. iPhone users may check this tutorial on making ringtones from MP3 files. You can listen to these tones here.

More Ringtones, not Bingtones? Long Zheng found ten soundclips which can be used as ringtones in Windows 7.

Links and more..

Microsoft Releases Free "Bing" Search Software & Resources (Accelerators, Web slices, Bing for Mobile etc. etc.), Bing, Bing Community, Bing Blogs, Bing Forums, Bing Media, Bing YouTube Channel, Bing on Facebook, Bing on Twitter, Bing Events

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Comments

http://www.liveside.net/members/calum_2D00_cook/default.aspx calum-cook

Good. Live Search always deserved much more market share than it ever had. Let’s hope it continues to increase its share even after the Bing buzz dies down. :)
http://www.liveside.net/members/hery/default.aspx hery

check the recent one instead:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-ww-daily-20090529-
20090608

disappointing :(
http://www.liveside.net/members/hery/default.aspx hery

oops url doesn’t work.. here we go.. http://bit.ly/gRbiy
http://www.liveside.net/members/twiz/default.aspx twiz

I’ve replaced Google with Bing on my systems but there’s one area I still go to Google for. Technical issues. Doing a search for Access issues I was having, Google’s first page was relevant, Bing’s first 2 replies were about EndNote. When I want the exact match of words, Google just works better (for me).
http://www.liveside.net/members/empirestatebuddy/default.aspx empirestatebuddy

Bing’s market share dipped over the weekend, but seems to be recovering today (which is what I figured it would). People use the internet differently on the weekend than they do during the work week. Here’s another website that tracks Bing’s market share… http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=64&qpcustom=Bing&sample=41

It shows that Bing has been pretty consistent, with no wild spikes either way.
http://www.liveside.net/members/Alber1690/default.aspx Alber1690

Some IE8 Accelerators have been acting buggy since the Bing launch. I had to manually find and update them to Bing for them to work. But the Bing Image Search and Bing Define still do not work properly. Has Microsoft acknowledged IE8 Accelerators and explained how they plan to update the set of Live Search ones? Some don’t even carry the Bing logo (Define) or even install (Images).
http://liveside.net/members/mrx9898/default.aspx mrx9898

lol, Bingtones. I listened to them, and they basically made me want to put a bullet through my head. A whole lot of people saying BING is NOT COOL! NOT COOL! lol, ive got a good ringtone off that Hahn TV ad :) :P
http://www.liveside.net/members/Sunshine/default.aspx Sunshine

@calum-cook I hope so too.
@twiz almost perfect then ;)
@hery Yea, it dropped again. Maybe the spike was just ppl giving Bing a try…..or….
@empirestatebuddy Nice graph! Thanks :) That one gives hope, let’s keep an eye on that one.
@Alber1690 I dunno, I’ve not heard anything about updating accelerators. Depends on wether it’s a Msft made accelerator or a third party one too I guess…
@mrx9898 It’s Bing Bing…not Bang Bang :P

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