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The Windows 8 Start search is the most efficient way to find and launch your apps, settings, and files.

Search extras allow applications to integrate and add value to the search experience in Windows Phone.  For example,  after and finding a movie, search extras can launch the iMDB application to see reviews, buy tickets, etc.)In this episode of the Inside Windows Phone show, Jared Brown (…

One of the really cool features of Bing is the image of the day. Someone at Microsoft has the delightful task of researching and selecting images that serve as the background to your daily web searches. With tips and trivia included for each image, the often stunning photography can brighten up…

The Bing Developer Center blog recently revealed details regarding the use of the Bing Advanced Query Language. To the uninitiated, this is the geeky way to search the web via Bing, by using command operators. You’re probably already familiar with some of these - the more commonly used commands…

Developers take note, the Bing Search Library for PHP has arrived and with it, you now have a simple way to submit queries and retrieve results from the Bing Engine via the Bing API. The results you fetch back can then be used in your own PHP application. To get started, all you need is the code…

Recorded Live at Philly.NET CodeCamp April 2010http://codecamp.phillydotnet.org/2010-1Want more details on why you should attend a Microsoft Community Code Camp?SummaryMost good search engines out there today expose an API against which we can program.  No matter what search engine you like to…

Sobees, the company known for their desktop and web-based social media tools, has just launched a new real-time search platform powered by Silverlight and running on Windows Azure. The new platform lets you search the real-time web including images, news, and videos. It pulls from sites like…

The folks over on LiveSide noticed an undocumented update to the Bing Reference search vertical, the site that offers semantically indexed Wikipedia content via the company’s Powerset division. Here, you have a better interface for searching through Wikipedia than what the Wikipedia website offers…

MSR recently released an "entity search and summarization engine" that in short builds a dynamic wikipedia page for the entity or person you search for. The types of information you'll find include biographies, a social-network graph, relationships between people (mouse over the link to…

As promised earlier this month, the Bing mobile website was going to get a new interface sometime this fall. As it turns out, “this fall” apparently meant right now. According to a post on the Bing Search blog, a new mobile interface has now gone live. The new UI looks different than the preview we…