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Bing Image Search adds “Pin to Pinterest”

Pinterest_LogoAre you a Pinterest user?  Pinterest, “a tool for collecting and organizing things you love”, launched in March, 2010, and has grown to be the 3rd largest social networking site in the US (behind only Facebook and Twitter) according …

Bing Snapshots coming to Autosuggest?

When Dr. Antonio Gulli of Bing R&D blogged last week about Autosuggest, explaining in perhaps just a bit too much detail how Bing’s search box shows you a list of suggestions as you type, he didn’t mention this:

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Bing adds Klout; Klout adds Bing

klout-logoOne place where Microsoft seems to know how to keep up a steady pace of updates is over at Bing, and today they’ve added yet again, this time providing a Klout score along with information from Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn …

Bing toys with more Home Page changes

It looks like Bing has finally gotten around to changing the Hotmail link on the Bing Home Page to Outlook.com, and some of our readers are pointing out some other changes they’re seeing as well.

Luckily for Bing, they’ve managed …

A new History view from Bing

bing history boxIt looks like Bing.com has updated its History view sometime in the last week or so.  As usual, we’re never sure what has been widely updated and what is part of a local trial, but at least here, for this …

Bing Maps adds high resolution, ocean floor imagery

bing maps satellite orthoBing Maps continues to improve their aerial imagery, announcing today new date provided by TerraColor to present seamless satellite imagery for zoomed out views, new bathymetric (ocean floor) data from Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and  new high resolution satellite imagery …

Bing unveils State of the Union interactive experience

bing electionsLast November, Bing unveiled Bing.com/Elections, an interactive experience that attracted almost 32 million people on Election Day, rivaling network news viewership.  Now, expanding on that experience, Microsoft is readying a new interactive experience for President Barack Obama’s State of …

Bing continues Facebook friendship with Social Sidebar updates

bing-logoYesterday, Facebook announced “Graph Search”, an ambitious project to allow searching Facebook for profile and “Like” driven information, and to expand Bing web search results when a Graph Search result comes up empty.  Now today, Bing is announcing that they …

Will Facebook Graph Search boost Bing?

Today, at a press event at the Palo Alto, California headquarters of Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced what he called the 3rd of the three pillars of Facebook (along with the Facebook News Feed and the Timeline), Graph Search.

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Bing Venue Maps goes global, now available in over 30 countries

Bing Maps logoSo it appears that the 165 terabytes of imagery data added to Bing Maps wasn’t the only update made to the mapping service. The Verge reported today that Microsoft has rolled out another update to Bing Maps which expanded the …