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Just what IS Microsoft’s (and Nokia’s) map strategy, anyway?

Today, on the Bing Maps blog, Microsoft announced its largest aerial satellite and Global Ortho image release ever, totaling 165 terabytes of new imagery live now on Bing Maps.  This single update is larger than the total “Aerial footprint” …

Bing Image Search gets a new look (reminds us of SkyDrive)

Microsoft released the new Bing last month, giving the search engine a fresher and cleaner look, however many of its search verticals such as Bing Image Search only received the new header, but not an actual update. Today over at …

Bing’s big announcement? Another contest

Caught up in the buzz about Microsoft’s “mystery event” yesterday, which ended up being a pretty big deal after all with the unveiling of a new family of “Microsoft Surface” Windows 8 tablets, was a post on the Bing …

Bing partners with Qwiki and Yelp to bring a better search experience

Bing, Yelp and QwikiTwo pieces of news related to Bing was announced recently, both aiming to bring you a better search experience. The first announcement relates to Bing partnering with Qwiki to bring an interactive and dynamic experience to your search results. For …

Bing adds Encyclopedia Britannica answers

In a blog post on the Bing Search blog today, Bing announced a new partnership with Encyclopedia Britannica to bring Britannica Online answers directly within the Bing search results:

The answer provides a quick overview of the subject, a thumbnail

New Bing homepage goes live, now with larger featured photo and tiles

New Bing homepage goes live, now with larger featured photo and tiles

When Bing got the new Metro look in early May, they also unveiled that the homepage will feature larger daily image. Today this new homepage has gone live in US market, check it out here.

Bing also improved the …

Bing Translator takes over Yahoo! Babel Fish

Yahoo! Babel FishThose of you who had been browsing the web in the early 2000s might’ve remembered Babel Fish, which at that time was one of the best online machine translation service. In 2003, Babel Fish was then taken over by AltaVista, …

Nokia Maps and Yahoo! Axis: Better than Bing?

map1A couple of Bing related news items today, both about other companies extending and improving upon Bing services, with more to come.

First, Nokia and Bing Maps announced the furthering of their partnership on Maps, this time with live …

Bing’s Visual Search decommissioned

bing visual searchOne of our readers (thanks Quikboy!) pointed out to us yesterday that a one-time prominent beta offering on Bing, Visual Search, is no longer available.  Visual Search was first announced at the TechCrunch 50 conference in September of 2009, …

Bing Search APIs, with a new free tier, now available on Azure Marketplace

bing azureLast month we wrote about some changes to the Bing Search API, used by developers to bring Bing search functionality into their applications.  The set of APIs, which originally were free to use, are moving to the Azure Marketplace …