Bing

Today the “decision engine” Bing.com added a new feature to its interface: visual search. To access the new interface, head to www.bing.com/visualsearch and install Microsoft Silverlight (if you haven’t done so already). When that’s complete, you can then use the new visual search engine to return…

The Bing search team just announced how they plan to make web searches more social. Through a new feature called “Bing and Ping,” you’ll be able to share certain types of search results with others via Twitter, Facebook, or email. It doesn’t appear that the feature will be implemented on all search…

This week we got to sit back a little and wax philosophical. What are the right ways to advertise? What applications are useful? When should you really be careful to not get photographed? You tell us.... Win7 app helps with squinting Tired Mac ads Is Google scared? Caught on camera! and…

Long Zheng, the blogger at the popular site iStartedSomething.com, just revealed his new experimental search engine created using the Bing API. The API, along with JSON and JQuery, was used to create a prototype search engine that “does away with a search button and page loads,” he says. Instead,…

For entertainment purposes only we decided to invited our friend, established comedian Kirk Fox into the Ping lair...here's how it all went down: Jonathon Mann wins a BINGLE Secret Service SQL Server PhotoSynth and Facebook What does Zune HD mean for you? Do viral videos work? And…

Thanks to Microsoft’s acquisition of semantic search startup Powerset last year, the new “decision engine” Bing has access to semantically indexed Wikipedia content which is used to deliver special types of search results for faster answers. A recent post on the Bing community blogs delved into…

Microsoft is working on a software wrapper which would let developers add Bing search results into their iPhone applications, according to Alessandro Catorcini, senior program manager for the Bing search engine. Catorcini made the announcement at the recent Search Engine Strategies conference in…

Bing Cashback just launched a back-to-school promotion which is offering up to 50% cashback for your online purchases. Formerly known as Live Search Cashback, this ongoing program actually pays you to shop online using Microsoft’s search engine. Considering that one of Bing’s strengths is helping…

Thanks to MakeUseOf.com and Long Zheng of I Started Something, you can now set your Windows 7 desktop wallpaper to a live-updating theme featuring background images from the new search engine Bing.com. Because Windows 7 supports RSS-powered themes, you have the ability to create and use themes…

In the middle of the summer you might think Microsoft would take a break and kick-back but clearly that's not how we roll. In addition to Office 2010 and Windows 7- Microsoft made news in a few other ways... Microsoft hired the Apple guy?  Linux is my homeboy Xbox Handheld coming…