Bing

Microsoft launches new Bing Video search experience

Whilst Microsoft’s Bing team have made minor tweaks and pilot tests here and there to their Bing Video search service, this search vertical hasn’t received any significant update since 2012. However, today the Bing team announced that they have …

Kissing frogs and ugly babies: Bing’s experimentation platform

Want to have the job of telling developers that “their baby is ugly”? That’s what researchers on Bing’s experimentation platform do, according to a post by Dr. Ronny Kohavi on the Search Quality Insights blog titled “Large Scale Experimentation

Microsoft releases Bing apps for Windows Phone

Bing Apps for Windows PhoneWhen Windows 8 was released last October, Microsoft released a series of “Metro”-styled Bing apps designed for the Windows Store – Bing News, Bing Sports, Bing Weather, Bing Finance, and Bing Travel. These apps received some significant updates since …

Windows 8.1 Smart Search, powered by Bing, powered by ads

When Windows 8.1 shipped last week in preview form, it came with a new search experience called Smart Search, which searches not only your Windows 8.1 machine, but the web as well via Bing. Smart Search is featured prominently on …

Bing supports Creative Commons licensing: adds “Search by License” feature

cc_logo_smallOne problem with an open and accessible web is that you can get to, copy, and re-use just about anything, regardless of its license.  Up until now, it’s been difficult at best to try to do the right thing and …

WebGL for IE11 will enable Bing Maps 3D

webgl-logoAmong the number of announcements Microsoft made at last week’s Build, two stand out not only for their significance, but for their relationship.  For the first time, Microsoft is including the open-source graphics rendering javascript API known as WebGL, …

Bing goes to school

Microsoft continues to try to inch ahead in its battle to catch market leader Google.  This time it’s the “Bing For Schools” program, announced today in a Bing Search blog post and accepting requests to bring Bing For Schools to …

Bing experiments with another “me too” feature: Bing Boards

This seems to be a prime week for imitators. Yesterday, Facebook announced that its Instagram was adding an Instagram Video feature, one so much like Twitter’s Vine that it prompted John Herrman of Buzzfeed to declare Facebook “out of ideas”

Siri, why Bing?

SiriYesterday, at WWDC, among a flurry of Apple announcements including a new, flatter, more “Windows Phone-ish” look for iOS with iOS 7, came news that Apple’s Siri will, beginning this fall, return Bing search results instead of Google.  A post …

Bing Desktop updated

bing desktopBing Desktop, an application that sits on your desktop and provides instant access to a search bar, news and weather, and even access to Facebook, was first released in beta form a year ago in April.  Since then, over …