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Bing Launches News Carousel Feature For Bing News

Bing Launches News Carousel Feature For Bing News

By Chris Crum 8 hours ago

Bing announced the launch of a new feature in Bing News called the News Carousel. When a user searches for a person of note (i.e. a celebrity or politician), they will see a visual carousel with current topics related to …

Bing Fires Up The Ol' 'Bing It On' Machine Again Bing Fires Up The Ol' 'Bing It On' Machine Again

Bing is at it again with another “Bing it On” challenge. Actually, it’s pretty much the same challenge, but they’re challenging people again. Bing says in a blog post, “With the newest version of the Challenge site, in addition to …

Bing Webmaster Tools Gets Geo-Targeting Bing Webmaster Tools Gets Geo-Targeting
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Microsoft has launched two new features for Bing Webmaster Tools: a new malware tool and geo-targeting. If Bing detects that a site is serving malware (either willingly or unwillingly) it will send a notification to the webmaster in Bing Webmaster …

Microsoft Is Messing Around With Some Logos Microsoft Is Messing Around With Some Logos

Microsoft recently presented at a design conference in Norway,and provided a glimpse at some potential new logos for some of its big brands, including: Bing, Skype, Yammer and Xbox. The Verge shares two videos from the conference, indicating that the …

Bing Rebrands Bing Business Portal Bing Rebrands Bing Business Portal
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Bing announced the launch of Bing Places For Business today. Essentially this is just a rebranding of Bing Business Portal at a new destination: bing.com/places. Bing senior product manager Ginny Sandhu says, “We know time is in short supply when …

Bing Takes Another Swing At The Deals Space Bing Takes Another Swing At The Deals Space

Bing announced Bing Offers today. This is a searchable collection of local deals on the web, aggregated from a “broad” set of partners. Sound familiar? That’s probably because they launched Bing Deals two years ago, another deals aggregator. Apparently that …

FairSearch Shockingly Doesn't Like Google Proposal FairSearch Shockingly Doesn't Like Google Proposal
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As previously reported, the EU has finally released documents clearly stating its concerns with Google’s competitive practices and listing, for the first time, Google’s actual proposals for settlement. Ahead of the release, the FairSearch Coalition (a group of Google competitors …

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After some experimenting and monitoring user behavior, Bing has made some changes to the way its shows search results. Bing R&D Partner Architect Dr. Ronny Kohavi discussed Bing’s testing and findings in a blog post. Much of the findings seem …

Bing Suggests You Search for 'Sex Games for Kids' Bing Suggests You Search for 'Sex Games for Kids'

Updated with comment from Microsoft below. Like Google, Yahoo, and most other search engines, Bing offers to autocomplete queries in their search box. While Google calls this feature “autocomplete,” Bing calls it “search suggestions.” Well, it looks like Bing is …

Bing Rolls Out Updates To Windows 8 Apps Bing Rolls Out Updates To Windows 8 Apps

Microsoft announced that it is rolling out updates across its six Bing apps for Windows 8 (News, Finance, Weather, Sports, Maps Travel). The updates focus on personalization. Users can now customize the Bing News app to keep track of specific …

Bing Adds Pinterest Pinning To Image Search Bing Adds Pinterest Pinning To Image Search
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Microsoft announced today that it has added a new Pinterest pinning feature to Bing Image Search. The self-explanatory feature lets users pin images directly from the search results page. You don’t have to install the “Pin It” bookmarklet on your …

Microsoft Launches Scrooge-Based Ads In April Microsoft Launches Scrooge-Based Ads In April
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That didn’t take long. Just when we thought Microsoft was wrapping up the whole “Scroogled” thing, they’re back with a big new campaign, this time taking on Android. Scroogled, as you may or may not know, started as a holiday …

Bing Zings Google With 'Bing Basic' [Zing] Bing Zings Google With 'Bing Basic' [Zing]
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The SEO tags aren’t the only April Fools’ joke from Bing this year. You didn’t think they’d get through the day without taking a shot at Google, did you? They introduced Bing Basic. There’s no mention of Google in the …

Bing Unveils New SEO Tags For April Fools' Bing Unveils New SEO Tags For April Fools'
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Attention SEOs: Bing is finally rewarding you for all your hard work. Starting today, new Bing SEO tags let you tell Bing exactly where your page should rank. Easy as that. The new SEO tags cut out the middleman and …

Klout Score Now Takes Into Account Instagram Data Klout Score Now Takes Into Account Instagram Data

Klout has just announced that its adding another element into your influence score: Instagram. “Instagram generates some of social media’s most beautiful and engaging content, and is one of the most highly-requested networks by Klout users. Starting this week, all …

Bing Adds Time Period Sorting To Search Result Bing Adds Time Period Sorting To Search Result

Bing has added a new way for users to sort their search results by time period. You can sort by “Past 24 hours” to see the top links that have surfaced during the last day, for example. You can also …

Bing Expands Its Knowledge Graph-Like 'Snapshots' Bing Expands Its Knowledge Graph-Like 'Snapshots'

Last year, Bing launched its “Snapshots” feature, which shows direct answers for searches on the results page. The feature was updated in December for people and places, and it looks a great deal like Google’s Knowledge Graph. Today, Bing announced …