Posted on May 16, 2012 by pradeep
Last week at Search Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft Bing announced a new version that will feature enhanced social experience during search. The enhanced new Bing is now rolling out to Bing US account users and initially people with Bing Rewards account were sent an email by Microsoft to try this stuff. Here’s what [...]
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Posted on May 10, 2012 by pradeep
Microsoft Bing today announced the biggest change since its inception on delivering search results for end users. Bing integrated social signals from Facebook and Twitter even before now, but the integration was stuffed into the search result blue links. But now, the Bing search results page was re-designed to incorporate features such as social which [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on May 10, 2012 by pradeep
Video: Search with friends Today, Microsoft Bing announced a new Social search feature that allows you to perform web searches along with the input from your friends. You can just connect with your Facebook friends to perform this kind of search experience. It combines the traditional way of searching with a social experience to it. More info [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2012 by pradeep
Today Bing announced the redesign of its search results page in US. The new look offers fresh, de-cluttered experience and more modern look. There is no “left rail” in the new design and the related searches content is moved to the right. Microsoft has also improved the page-load times and relevance under the hood. I think this design is [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on April 3, 2012 by pradeep
Bing Desktop provides an automatic update of the Windows Desktop Background image to the Bing home page image each day. In addition, Bing Desktop offers an easily accessible yet unobstrusive search box to streamline searching without opening the browser. Download it here.
Continue ReadingPosted on March 27, 2012 by pradeep
Searching the web was never so rewarding ! Some of you would have heard about Bing Rewards programs that allows you to earn points which in turn can be redeemed for Amazon gift cards, Microsoft Points, etc, and now even Skype Calling Credits. With 100 Bing reward points you will get a 60 minute Skype [...]
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Posted on February 29, 2012 by pradeep
Microsoft Bing team today announced the availability of 3 new apps for Windows 8. These apps can be downloaded from Windows 8 Store for free. The three new apps are Weather, Finance and Maps. Weather: The Weather app offers a visually beautiful preview of current weather conditions, helping you prepare for the latest conditions with [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2012 by pradeep
Today Microsoft Bing team announced a new feature (US Only for now) called Linked Pages which will make searching for people on the web easier. With Linked Pages, you link websites related to you in search results. Now your friends looking for you online can find what you want them to find. You can also link [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2012 by pradeep
Today Microsoft MSN announced a new website called msnNOW. msnNOW will present the most interesting trends from real-time sources like Facebook, Twitter, Bing, and BreakingNews.com. The new site will offer the following, • Breaking trends. Up-to-the-minute coverage on breaking trends from across the Web, with the option to sort by areas of interest, including entertainment, [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on February 6, 2012 by pradeep
Social signals integration in search engines especially Google is creating lots of buzz these days. Bing Director, Stefan Weitz did an interview with All Things D to talk on Social integration in Bing. When asked about Microsoft’s approach to including Social in Search engines, The first thing is, we are taking this pretty slow, and [...]
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