Microsoft released the Bing Desktop Beta earlier this week. It provides you a new desktop wallpaper everyday with the Bing Image of the Day. It also provides Bing search with results opening in your default browser. Here’s a first look at the new software.
Exactly one year ago, Microsoft discontinued their product search incentive Bing Cashback. Over the last 9 months or so they’ve been testing the waters with a new way to entice shoppers: Bing Rewards! When I first looked at Bing Rewards back in September, I didn’t bother with a write-up as it required you to install the [...]
For some strange and annoying reason, Bing is set to be the default search provider for Firefox 4. Normally this wouldn’t be so bad –if there were an easy way to change it (to Google). Additionally, Firefox 4 has two input boxes at the top, the address bar and the search bar. Both boxes are capable of [...]
Previously we showed you how-to set up a rotating wallpapers using an RSS feed. Now I’m happy to report that now you can skip ahead several steps because Microsoft created the new Bing Dynamic Theme. This Bing theme for Windows 7 will automatically pull some of the great images featured on the Bin homepage and [...]
Microsoft just released a new tool for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 that integrates their email clients with Bing to help plan your travel more efficiently. The Bing Travel Planner is currently in beta, but you can still download it and give it a try. You can pick it up from the Official Microsoft site [...]
Almost a year ago, I wrote about a new Bing 3D Maps service Microsoft launched and it looks like Microsoft just updated the client to version 4.0. I went ahead and updated my client and sure enough, things are a bit smoother although the 3D models still have a long way to go… You [...]
Only shortly after replacing Live Search, Bing has grown by leaps and bounds. The next step in the Bing campaign is to replace the Windows Live and MSN Toolbars with Bing’s very own "Bing Bar.” As they update current toolbar clients, Microsoft is hopeful to convert new users from other toolbars as well. The Bing [...]
As I was reviewing the groovyPost traffic analytics for the month of Aug. 2009, when I noticed an interesting data point in regards to organic search. For the first time since it’s launch, the Microsoft BING search engine referred more traffic to the groovyPost family of sites than the Yahoo! search engine. Here’s a look [...]
