Category: Bing Search

Yesterday, Microsoft named Satya Nadella their new CEO. Yes, he is a familiar name for many of you because he has been involved in search at Microsoft for years.

He keynoted at one of the first, if not the first…

Bing announced they are bringing their Bing Rewards program to mobile devices. Well, not all mobile devices, just iOS and Android for now. Some what ironically, Windows devices are currently not supported…

Matt Wallaert, a Behavioral Scientist at Microsoft but more well known for creating Bing For Schools posted on Twitter something strange. He wrote, “Finally, Bing for Schools. No ads, the way it should be in schools…

First spotted via Hacker News, Bing now has enabled searchers to go to https://www.bing.com and search over Bing SSL search.

I covered this at Search Engine Land where I said early tests show that when on SSL search…

If you missed all the industry excitement yesterday, Microsoft launched a scroogled store on the Microsoft site.

You can buy mugs, hats, hoodies and t-shirts with marketing slogans from Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign – Scroogled…

Bing announced they have “streamlined” the MSDN API Search.

This means it will be faster and more efficient for developers to build software around the API.

The API docs are over here and the specific changes include these examples:

Find the .Net ve…

Now you can verify your Bing profile using Klout. Bing said, “to help people manage their presence online…

The big ad news from last night was that Microsoft is also working on their own technique for tracking ads and replacing the cookie tracking system that has been around for over a decade…

A little over a year ago, Microsoft launched this campaign named the Bing It On Challenge, which was basically a blind-search taste test pinning Bing against Google…

Late last night, Microsoft announced on the search blog the next phase of Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. You can “explore” these changes at bing.com/new.

The most obvious change is the new yellow/orange logo…

@tecnonetblog posted a video of new Bing deep links (aka sitelinks). The new format has 6 main top level deep links and then has up to an additional six or so sub-deep links under some of the main deep links…

Bing announced updates to their video search engine…

Bing announced a major overhaul of the Bing News portal.

The first thing you will notice is the new look. The new design is very basic, but allows for an “adaptive design,” so that it works on all devices. Yes, tablet…

Bing is apparently testing showing deep links, what Google calls sitelinks, directly in the Bing search box, without going to the search results page.

Aaron Wall spotted this and posted a picture on Twitter…

Everyone by now has heard that Microsoft’s CEO has announced he will retire from Microsoft within the year. There is a lot of speculation on why and was it sudden or not. In any event, he has given his life to the company and it has paid off well fo…

Bing announced they have greatly expanded their autosuggest engine to include a lot more types of queries, such as brands, movies, albums, places, software, sport teams…

Yesterday was a big day for Apple, announcing iOS 7 at their WWDC event. Part of that announcement was showing that Bing was the default search engine for Apple’s Siri, replacing Google…

Bing announced they have updated Bing News to add a news carousel for specific types of searches. They also added related individuals on the right hand side. Finally, when the search is not news related or doesn’t have fresh news stories…