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Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

Posted Jun 02 2009, 08:43 PM by damaster with 8 comment(s)

Today when you visit any of the Windows Live Wave 3 properties (with the exception of Family Safety and Agents), you’d have noticed the search bar on the top have been replaced with a new orange magnifying glass icon with Bing’s logo inside, like the one shown below:

Bing Search Bar

Not only this, but also for Internet Explorer 7 or 8 users who usually use Live Search as their default search provider in the search box up the top-right, the new Bing search provider add-on is now available. Click here to get it and make it your default search engine!

Search Provider

On a side note, Bing Mobile has now been completely rolled out. Simply visit http://m.bing.com and you’ll be able to see the new interface (you may have to refresh your browser cache to view the new logo)! Visit it on your iPhone or iPod touch and you’ll also get an optimised interface like the one shown below:

Bing Mobile - iPhone 

View LiveSide’s coverage of Bing here.

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yertthedestroyer wrote re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!
on Tue, Jun 2 2009 6:24 AM

The search box for LiveSide still says Live Search, but when you click it, it goes Bing!

Sorry, Bing name joke... but yeah, it needs to be rebranded on this site to reflect what the search actually uses.

RLP wrote re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!
on Tue, Jun 2 2009 8:29 AM

A firefox search bar plug is also already available.  Works quite spiffily.

JohnCz wrote re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!
on Tue, Jun 2 2009 9:07 AM

I find myself wanting adjust ever so slightly the vertical alignment of "bing" in the Windows Live Wave 3 search bar.  I think it should be centered instead of being aligned to the top.  Most definitely a priority issue.

Kip Kniskern wrote re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!
on Tue, Jun 2 2009 9:13 AM

LiveSide is now Bing-ified :).  We just use the out of the box search box at http://www.bing.com/siteowner/, but you can do a lot more with search for your site with the "Silk Road" API, available at www.bing.com/developers

mcrobbiegt wrote re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!
on Tue, Jun 2 2009 9:52 AM

When will the "Windows Live Search For Mobile" application that you can download to you phone; become "Bing for Mobile"???

CalumJR wrote re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!
on Tue, Jun 2 2009 12:27 PM

@JohnCz - unfortunately Microsoft have a tendency to not vertical align text in things like buttons and textboxes :( Look at the "Save settings", or whatever it is called, button in the Bing 'Preferences'.

As for them not rolling to this change out to Windows Live Agents and Windows Live Family Safety websites... why? Because they just can't stop the inconsistencies they love to provide so much. It's ridiculous, it doesn't take much effort to spot these inconsistencies so I wonder why it takes so much effort for them to correct them...

damaster wrote re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!
on Tue, Jun 2 2009 6:21 PM

@CalumJR: I'm sure Family Safety will be updated soon. As for Windows Live Agents, development work has been discontinued for the SDK, hence I guess the site won't be ever updated (take a look at its header, it still shows the old Home Hotmail Spaces OneCare). Don't take my word for it though!

Alber1690 wrote re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!
on Tue, Jun 2 2009 6:37 PM

Forgot MyMSN (yd1fja.bay.livefilestore.com/.../Bing%20on%20MyMSN.PNG) which I really like. But MSN on the other hand...whoa...so ugly: yd1fja.bay.livefilestore.com/.../Bing%20on%20MSN.PNG The "Preview" label needs to go!

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