Yesterday I had a brief exchange with Stefan Weitz on Twitter and it would appear that the new version of Bing might actually, finally, be coming soon. I wonder if the availability of Bing HTML5 might occur at the BUILD conference, that’s happening soon. If that is the case then there would in theory be [...]

I was looking around deviantart earlier today when I stumbled upon a video I hadn’t seen of Bing. As far as I can tell this video is real and it actually fits in well with some of the images I’ve seen for the next version of Bing. is in a perpetual state of “coming soon”. [...]

Today I noticed on Twitter a new program from Bing which encourages users of Bing to be advocates for the service. Bing describes their Advocacy Program by saying “We want to give you a voice and connect you with others that share your love of Bing. Join our growing community today!“ Several perks are mentioned [...]

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 [...]

Today Microsoft have launched a new social app from their Bing team that allows people to connect with friends in a new, easy way. The purpose of the app seems to be a quick way to invite your friends to do something; Microsoft use the examples of get-togethers, carpooling and trying to find people in [...]

Bing has just announced some new quite impressive features for its shopping vertical search. These include things such as refining a search result through the search box without having to click any refinements after having searched for something more generic. There is also further Facebook integration with Bing with it now possible to share multiple [...]

Experian Hitwise realised UK search data for the month of July in which Bing has been shown to do very well, growing a whole 0.96% in a single month. There was more good news for Microsoft as Bing has regained it’s lead over Yahoo in the UK search market and also Bing is the only [...]

Bing UK have updated its news page to bring a lot more news to the page for quicker access to the news from around the world. Read more about this. This new design is now like the US however the UK version misses the “Popular Now” links at the top and the weather of the [...]

Just thought I’d share with a video of the Bing Your Britain photo day I went to a few weeks ago. I think it’s a very nicely edited video. This day was part of the much larger, national Your Britain competition where the prizes are £10,000 and having the winning photo on Bing UK for [...]

I have previously looked at how well Microsoft is achieving its own aim of “3 screens an the cloud” and thought I’d provide and update following recent announcements and rumours. I am obviously looking at the 4 different platforms along with 5 services. These 5 services can be summarised as: – Windows Live: Personal – [...]