Today I was tipped off about Bing Streetside now being available in the UK. I was very excited by this news and am please to finally be able to tell my readers that Streetside is now available to people outside of the US for the first time. There has been a lot of talk and [...]

On Tuesday Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance on stage at the BlackBerry World, an annual conference held by Research In Motion (RIM) the makers of the BlackBerry and the new PlayBook. Ballmer announced a new partnership for Microsoft, one with RIM, that will see Bing the default search and mapping provider on all RIM [...]

I’ve often wondered how Microsoft would best be able to show off its Photosynths and technology for overlaying Bing Maps 3D images with user taken photos and videos. Yes, those things all make great tech demos but aren’t exactly obvious to the average user to find or use. However an announcement yesterday by Blaise Aguera [...]

This is excellent news and seems to be hot off the presses; Microsoft will soon be bringing Streetside to Europe. The information has come via the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones who linked to a new site microsoftstreetside.co.uk which was only registered 5 days ago. I, of course, might have been somewhat blind and not seen this [...]

A few weekends back I travelled the length of South England and back again. A few of my friends from school were meeting at Exeter University where a few more of my school mates current attend and so I thought it would be great to meet up with them. On route to Exeter it made [...]

Seeing as there is currently a lot of talk of improvements to Bing in the form of a HTML5 enable version of the search engine following Google announcement of instant searches I thought I’d share with you a few tweaks I have thought of for the Bing Image search. Slideshow option When searching image on [...]

Despite Apple’s major announcement only being an hour away it hasn’t stopped Microsoft also announcing lots today at their tech ed North America conference and on the internet. I doubt many of you are particularly interested in the business side of the announcements, I know I don’t understand most of it and I couldn’t even [...]

Microsoft and Microsoft Research released a Map App last week which I didn’t have time to play with but its great. It allows users to change the UI of Bing Maps to a much simpler  one, that appears to be hand drawn. Now at first site this could appear to just be a gimmick however [...]

As I posted earlier in the week Bing had some nice announcements for us including an update to the user interface of Bing (I’ll come back to this later), a better implementation of real-time information and Four Square integration on Bing Maps. The implementation of real-time information looks to be well thought out with the [...]

Microsoft adCenter have just shared a video interview that they had with Stefan Weitz, head of the Bing team, at Search Engine Strategies. Stefan is asked a few things about what he thinks will happen in search and what he thinks the difference is between social search and real-time search, however the most interesting part [...]