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despite the good results reached with Bing in the SE market share, I believe that Microsoft...
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Been using it, and it's almost the same as Live Search, with just a few modifications ...
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From Bing's twitter post: "we are not yet fully deployed but we agree we need to keep...
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Btw, the Bing search provider for IE7/8 is now available: www.ieaddons.com/.../Bing_Search
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LiveSide - News blog

Bing goes live in multiple markets

Posted Jun 01 2009, 12:46 AM by Kip Kniskern with 17 comment(s)

Getting reports from all over that www.bing.com is live:

binglive

The US is getting the Hubble telescope image that is on live.com, but for at least some other countries (we didn’t check them all), they’re getting our old friend the snow leopard:

bingchina

Note that in China, as well as Australia and Germany for sure, the Bing home page is marked as “Beta” and not “preview”, and seems to be missing some features, like the Explore pane on the left hand side (links are above the search box, as they are at live.com)

binggermany

You can learn more about Bing by taking the Tour.

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nikhil_jain wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 1:20 AM

Yeah same image is also for india as wel. I am missing lots of feature include left pane , mouse hover link preview and many other.!

KC Mraz wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 1:31 AM

For Mexico too. Actually, it is literally Live Search with a different look. No new features, the same search results, everything sans the look and name is the same.

Hopefully it will be updated by Wednesday for the formal launch.

shrenik wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 2:24 AM

Live Maps changed to Bing Maps!

typing maps.live.com diverts me to bing maps which again is 'preview' and not 'beta'!!!

shrenik wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 2:27 AM

and yea, the best one is...an option to see the past homepage images with a mention of the date when the pic was on the homepage!!!

check out www.bing.com

shrenik wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 2:31 AM

video search enables u to browse top videos too which is an option on left botton...

www.bing.com/.../search

Khristopher wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 2:55 AM

In Canada it's preview, not beta, which is nice to see. Tired of seeing the word "beta" everywhere.

The image is different from the ones you showed though.

Englez wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 3:21 AM

In Serbia it's also "preview"...nice present for my birthday today :) ...thanks Microsoft.

mdsharpe wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 3:25 AM

the UK has an image of some coastal town, says "Beta", but the explore stuff appears to be working

mdsharpe wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 3:36 AM

Actually no all I'm getting is "ALL RESULTS"

JSYOUNG571 wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 5:34 AM

Nice to see Bing even thou I felt it should have remain Live Search. I wonder when they are going to change the Live Search over to Bing in the Windows Live Toolbar search area, internet explorer 8 search bar, and Windows Live Mobile search bar?

GraphiteCube wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 6:44 AM

I can't understand why Microsoft can't make the design consistent and make features available in all markets. The US version is better (in terms of layout) and has a video search, which Hong Kong version doesn't.

shrenik wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 8:20 AM

@JSYOUNG571: IE8 as well as toolbar now direct u to bing.com when u have live search as ur default search.

damaster wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 9:47 AM

Btw, the Bing search provider for IE7/8 is now available: www.ieaddons.com/.../Bing_Search

damaster wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 9:55 AM

From Bing's twitter post: "we are not yet fully deployed but we agree we need to keep working on worldwide coverage issues. thanks for your help!"

quikboy wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Mon, Jun 1 2009 2:46 PM

Been using it, and it's almost the same as Live Search, with just a few modifications (that couldn't have just updated Live Search with?).

Though it has nailed down probably all my results, it still gets 'on10' query wrong. The closest it gets to the results is usually on the 3rd page, with onten.net listed (though on10.net would be better). You think Microsoft could nail this one, consider the site is associated with Microsoft....

gaetanomarano wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Thu, Jun 18 2009 4:30 AM

despite the good results reached with Bing in the SE market share, I believe that Microsoft STILL needs to buy Yahoo (this year) to really compete with Google, as explained in this article: newgoos.blogspot.com/.../why-bing-will-be-sold-for-1-in-2012.html

bf1977 wrote re: Bing goes live in multiple markets
on Sun, Jun 21 2009 7:31 PM

Bing is cool and fantastic.

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