Bing Blogs - 162

Back in June, 2010, we published a blog post titled Bing crawler: bingbot on the horizon that announced our plans to retire our venerable web crawler, MSNBot, and replace it with the new. Our plans remain on track, and we want to remind you that this change will occur on October 1st, 2010. We also want to take this opportunity to help set some expectations for this process, to discuss the name change details, what the change means in terms of...
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Recently we partnered with our friends over at Wowhead.com to create a Bing Visual search gallery of the hottest World of Warcraft in-game weapons and gear. Looking for a Deadly Gladiator’s Bonegrinder or an Argent Skeleton Crusher? You can now filter, search, and see what other diehard Wow players are saying about all of the items to find what you need faster. Don’t know which weapon you need to beat Keli’dan the Breaker? We...
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Last week we shared the exciting fact that we had completed the migration of web search results for our search alliance with Yahoo!. Today we reached another important milestone as we will be inviting Yahoo! Search Marketing to begin their transition to Microsoft Advertising adCenter in the US and Canada. This means we expect the paid search transition to be complete by the end of October. It’s been a busy summer, and we are...
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Have you ever wondered what fields of study are hot right now in the world of technology?  Or maybe you’re starting to think about declaring your major and you’re looking for some real world guidance? It is worth thinking beyond a traditional Computer Science degree or even an Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) program. Microsoft is hiring people with unique backgrounds, some that are new with the inception of...
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Today we are happy to announce the first official Bing for Mobile Android App available to Verizon customers.  You can now download the free Bing App from your Verizon Wireless Android phones’ Marketplace.  The app homepage features the Bing image of the day, complete with clickable hotspots that you can explore and discover related trivia.  Did you miss one of the latest images? Don’t worry; you can still swipe through...
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Over the years we’ve provided developers with tons of code samples, SDKs, interactive SDKs, external SDKs, etc., etc. Today, we’re adding to an already loaded artillery of Bing Maps SDKs by providing a new SDK for PHP developers who want to use our REST, SOAP and Spatial Data APIs.
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If you are using the web-client of Hotmail or Office Live you may already have discovered it: Hotmail integrates now with Bing Maps. When you create a new email, you can now insert various types of content from Bing, including Bing Maps: 
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Earlier this year we launched A New Entertainment Experience for Bing, and part of those new features was a new way to really Experience the music with Bing. We have found that Bing shares a passion and enthusiasm for music with music fans everywhere and today we are excited to be partnering with Alpha Broadcasting in Portland, OR, on their new live performance venue called The Bing Lounge. The Bing Lounge will bring Rose City residents a line-up...
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In our last update we shared that we had begun testing Bing results in Yahoo! search as we move forward with our transition. Today I am happy to share that Bing is powering Yahoo!’s search results in the US and Canada (English only for now, the other languages will come in the weeks and months ahead). So what’s next?  We continue to work hard on the migration to adCenter, and are optimistic about completing this phase later this...
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Are you a fan of instant answers on Bing? Well in case you didn’t know, you can even get instant answers on your phone.  Instant answers show up at the top of your search results, offering the most relevant information to help you find what you are searching for without having to click on multiple links.  This is especially great if you are looking for movie show times, flight status, weather, stock quotes or local listings.  ...
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