Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

Alber1690 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:37:27 GMT

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!

re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

damaster — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:21:12 GMT

@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!

re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

CalumJR — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:27:11 GMT

@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...

re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

mcrobbiegt — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:52:19 GMT

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

re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

Kip Kniskern — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:13:40 GMT

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

re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

JohnCz — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:07:06 GMT

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.

re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

RLP — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:29:14 GMT

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

re: Bing Search Bars are now everywhere!

yertthedestroyer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:24:16 GMT

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.