Category Archives: Bing

Bing Maps Imagery & Map Data Release, July 2009

Bing Maps Imagery & Map Data Release, July 2009

41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers… Read more

Bing gains 1% US share in July, Google loses: StatCounter

Bing gains 1% US share in July, Google loses: StatCounter

In a press release issued today, web statistics firm StatCounter showed an increase in US search market share from 8.23% in June to 9.41% in July. … Read more

Bing home page featured I-35W Bridge on 2nd anniversary of collapse

Bing home page featured I-35W Bridge on 2nd anniversary of collapse

Most of the time, the images on the Bing home page are pretty pictures, sometimes with topical connections, but rarely controversial. Today’s… Read more

Yahoo! powered by Bing, but not much more?

Yahoo! powered by Bing, but not much more?

As widely expected, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal (very early) this morning, a 10 year agreement to have Bing power Yahoo! searches, with… Read more

Bing Summer Travel Photo Contest, And The Winner Is…

Bing Summer Travel Photo Contest, And The Winner Is…

We told you earlier about the Bing Summer Travel Photo Contest. The contest has now ended. Out of the 10,000 submissions 9,400 photos got accepted.… Read more

Our first take on MSFT-YHOO: Less than meets the eye?

Our first take on MSFT-YHOO: Less than meets the eye?

A search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! hasn’t even been announced yet, and yet tidbits of information are being analyzed, scrutinized,… Read more

New Bing ads: showing off the good stuff

New Bing ads: showing off the good stuff

The first in a new series of Bing ads appeared last night in the US on the Conan O’Brien show.  Two weeks ago, Yusuf Mehdi promised the… Read more

Details filter out on Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal to be announced Wednesday

Details filter out on Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal to be announced Wednesday

Multiple reports are out from AdAge, The Wall Street Journal, and Kara Swisher at All Things Digital that Microsoft and Yahoo! are set to announce… Read more

MSFT-YHOO search deal “likely to be announced this week”: Ad Age

MSFT-YHOO search deal “likely to be announced this week”: Ad Age

Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo! about deal that would have Microsoft’s Bing providing search technology for Yahoo! properties continue,… Read more

Bing: The First Month

Bing: The First Month

We’ve been keeping an eye on Bing and reported some statistics, as many blogs and news sites did, here too. So now, over one month after launch,… Read more