Microsoft previously said there was going to be an Android version of Bing soon, following its successful iPhone app. Today there is — for Verizon Android handsets only however. It was announced on the Bing Community Blog.
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Yahoo just announced the transition from Yahoo Search powered results to Bing powered organic Yahoo search results is now complete. The search ads are still from Yahoo but the free, organic results are now powered by Bing in the U.S. and Canada.
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The iPhone may have been outsold last quarter by Android, but Apple’s phone remains at least for the time being the “it device” in the smartphone market. Google and Microsoft are both, let’s say, “ambivalent” about t…
Read the rest of this entry »This summer Microsoft held a competition to promote and popularize its Bing Maps developer SDK and Map Apps. I was privileged to be one of the three judges who reviewed the finalists and voted on them across a range of criteria. The other two judges we…
Read the rest of this entry »The Yahoo-Microsoft search transition is picking up momentum. Yahoo announced a number of things today relevant to the change over. They concern the organic search transition, SearchMonkey and Site Explorer.
Yahoo announced that later this week the or…
Microsoft’s Greg Nelson and Yahoo’s Mark Morrissey recently gave interviews to Kara Swisher of AllThingsD. Nelson and Morrissey are in charge of a two-year effort to coordinate the massive search and online advertising partnership that their companies…
Read the rest of this entry »How do you get Canadians from Victoria to Petawawa to put their town on the map? You ask them politely to submit photos they have snapped of their hometowns to the Bing photo contest.Click to read the rest of this post…
Read the rest of this entry »The top story on Day 3 of SES New York 2010 was the morning keynote by Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of the Online Audience Business for Bing. Check out the story by Sharon Pian Chan in the Seattle Times entitled, “Microsoft adds Foursquare to Bing Maps.”
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Personalized search suggestions now available from historical search clues.
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Improved imagery for Haiti and Vancouver included.
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