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

Last 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 ... Read more »

The new Bing is live (well, 2/3 of it)

If you’re in the US (or can fool your browser into thinking you are), the new Bing, with its double dose of sidebars, is available now, either by opting in to the banner that ... Read more »

Google, Bing advance, Yahoo! down in latest search market polls: can Facebook help Bing?

It’s that time of the month again when the US search market share numbers come out, and while the three major pollsters (comScore, Compete, and Nielsen, who haven’t released this month’s rankings yet) don’t ... Read more »

Bing tests (then stops) search results in a new tab: are you ok with being a guinea pig?

This morning a number of tech blogs are reporting on what apparently is another test of Bing users, this time with search results opening in a new tab: Along with lots of other people ... Read more »

Bing Maps Bird’s Eye and Streetside updates

We don’t hear as much about Bing Maps imagery updates as we did in the old days when Chris Pendleton gave us regular updates on the Bing Maps blog, but the Bing Maps team ... Read more »

Bing 411 to be discontinued on June 1st

For those in the United States, Microsoft operates a toll-free number called Bing 411 (1-800-BING-411 or 1-800-CALL-411), which allows users to conduct voice search using Tellme technologies. The service allow users to conduct local ... Read more »

Microsoft Advertising rebrands, too, and Xbox drops “Inside Xbox” (What a week we’re having!)

When we said goodbye to “Windows Live” today, it wasn’t the only rebranding announcement to come out of Microsoft recently: yesterday Microsoft Advertising rebranded itself to “Bing”, or “Bing for Small Business”.  And of ... Read more »

Bing sports a new look: should we get excited?

After receiving a tip today on (another) new look for Bing (thanks Hector!), we tried it out and sure enough, we’re getting a new search results page,  a new header, and a new look ... Read more »

Bing Maps, Windows Phone Translator App updated

A pair of posts on the Bing blogs today announced some new features for both Bing Maps and the Bing Translator App for Windows Phone. First, with Bing Maps, the nearly 900 venue maps ... Read more »

Could Microsoft sell Bing to Facebook?

OK this is pretty far-fetched, but according to a post on Barron’s Tech Trader Daily blog, CNBC editor Gary Kaminsky “made passing reference to a report that apparently claims Microsoft might be considering giving ... Read more »