Bing

There are currently two contests promoting the new Bing “decision engine” going on right now. The first one, the Bing Home Page Photo Contest, is in its final stages. This contest allowed photographers to submit their photos to become the main homepage photo featured on Bing.com. There were a ton…

Sometimes when you do a search, you're looking not just for definitions and answers (and of course decisions), but you're also looking for what the community at large is saying about the subject. Well there's a site called BingTweets.com that will do just this. It lets do you a Bing search, but…

As the search engine Bing arrives in other markets worldwide, each new country getting access to Bing is also getting their own localized version of the background image, too. Most recently, both Australia and Japan have been added to the list of countries Bing supports. However, unlike here in the…

Harry Shum is the VP of Engineering for Bing, Microsoft's latest search engine offering (well, it's more than a search engine - it's a so-called Decision Engine, but what does that mean, precisely?). Harry has a long history in the world of complex algorithm design and implementation. Before …

People seem to really like the daily images that Bing shows as backgrounds. And if you'd like to have Bing.com use one of your photos as a background, you're in luck. Until July 16, you can submit your photos through a Facebook contest where the photo will be judge along with others and…

BingTones are the official ringtones designed to promote the new search engine Bing. They’re kind of silly to be honest, as they feature people singing the word “bing” over and over to different melodies. Still, oftentimes silly is just what people are looking for when it comes to a ringtone, as…

Erik Meijer and I paid a visit to Bing Maps infrastructure architect and Partner Development Manager Gur Kimchi for an Expert to Expert conversation about the design and architecture of Bing Maps. It takes some rocket science to process and coerce data into accurate information…

Microsoft has partnered up with Seattle-based PayScale, a company that tracks the current market salaries for numerous professions worldwide. The new partnership brings immediate answers to anyone performing a Bing search query which asks a salary-related question. (For example, search Bing for…

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover the top developer news, including: - XNA Game Studio 3.1 now available - Howard Dierking - Extreme MSDN Magazine ASP.NET Makeover screencast series - Peter Kellner - Compile LINQ to SQL to improve query performance (110 uncompiled vs…

Besides being a decision engine that helps you find health, travel, or shopping information, the new search engine at Bing.com can now also help you translate between different languages on the fly. Instead of having to load up a specific site that does translation, you can just type in what you…