Getting The US Election Results From Google, Bing & Yahoo
Who’s winning in today’s US presidential election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? Who’s ahead for the many House of Representatives and US Senate seats that are up for grabs? Who won in the many state and local elections happening? The major search engines of Google, Bing and Yahoo have you covered with answers. Bing […]
Bing Adds 5X More Facebook Content To Social Sidebar
The big news in search this week was the announcement of Facebook’s Graph Search. But today, Microsoft is making enhancements to its own “social search” capability. Specifically, Bing is adding more content to its Social Sidebar feature. In a way, this is a reintroduction of Social Sidebar following the news of Facebook’s Graph Search. People […]
New Bing Feature Lets Users Pin Images To Pinterest Straight From Image Search Page
Bing announced today a new “Pin to Pinterest” feature that allows users to pin Bing image search results directly to a Pinterest board. According to the Bing Search Blog, the company assembled a group of lifestyle and design bloggers last fall to evaluate their search and social media habits. Based on the results of the […]
Bing Discovers Searches Made During July 4th Holiday Week Same As Any Other Day
What were Bing users searching for leading up to this July 4th holiday? It appears the same as any other day. Based on Bing’s search records from earlier this week, celebrities remained more popular than American historical figures and Independence Day topics. After reviewing search logs, Bing found that: More searches were performed for Kanye […]
Bing “Re-Imagined” For Windows 8.1: More Beautiful, Comprehensive And Integrated
Windows 8.1 is intended to “fix” many of the perceived problems of Windows 8. However, for the Bing team, the release of Windows 8.1 offered a new opportunity to more deeply integrate Bing into the OS and provide a richer experience for users. With the new release, Bing becomes something more than a “search engine.” […]
Niagara Falls Photo Wins Bing Hometown Homepage Photo Contest
After asking users to submit photos of their hometown back in August, Bing announced today Prasad Karkera’s photo of the Niagara Falls has won its Hometown Homepage Photo Contest. Karkera’s photo was one of ten selected by Bing and then voted on via a public vote by Bing users. Taken from the New York State […]
Starting Today Bing For Schools Is Giving More Than 800,000 Students An Ad-Free Search Experience
Bing For Schools officially launched today, a program created by Bing to promote digital literacy to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The program was initially announced in June, inviting school administrators to register for the free service that gives participating schools ad-free Bing searches, SafeSearch filters to remove adult content from all Bing searches […]
Bing search results gain site name and favicons
Bing Search is looking a lot more like Google Search and you can now report issues with site names to Google. Bing is adding site names and favicons to its search results in some cases, much like Google did months ago on desktop and last year on mobile search. Now when you look at the Bing search results, you […]
The ultimate guide to using Bing Webmaster Tools — Part 1
Contributor and Bing Chief Evangelist Christi Olson kicks off a multipart series on Bing webmaster tools. If you are new to Bing’s webmaster toolset, this detailed guide will get you started and on your way to better rankings on Bing. If you are a website owner, you’ve invested a lot of time and resources to […]
Five Years Later, Ex-Farecast Founder Asks “What Is Bing Doing?”
Oren Etzioni, the founder of Farecast who sold it to Microsoft in 2008, says he’s “disappointed” with Bing’s development and “expected more” from Microsoft’s search engine. As Geekwire reports, Etzioni made his comments to an audience last night at a Startup Grind event in Seattle. “What is Bing doing, period? So many smart people, so […]