Bing has announced its new search features for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics slated to begin this Friday in Vancouver. The two amazing search features Instant Answers and Visual Galleries on Bing will provide you with all the information on these Winter Olympic Games.
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Bing has launched its all new In-depth stock pages to do research about investments in US stocks and funds.
This new feature provides the user with all the information about the stock market and finance. Considering the recent downturn of the world economies, this new research information providing system is a great help. It might not predict trends or but goes a long way in getting all the data together in one place for those who are wary of compiling data.
Bing revealed the list of top ten most searched topics and events for the year 2009. As we are moving towards the end of 2009, it is the perfect time to look back at the top searches made regarding the events and occurrences of the said year. Developing a list of top searches is not an easy task and requires proper in depth analysis of the queries made.
It is true that Internet has drastically grown in the past few years and has become more complex, but Search Engines are still on the verge of evolution. In order to make search engines more reliable information resource for users, Microsoft launched Bing in June, 2009.
After integrating Twitter to its search results, Microsoft is now collaborating with Wolfram Alpha for getting its computational algorithm technology into the search results of Bing.
The Wolfram Alpha feature will be made available to the U.S-based Bing users within a few days. Initially the roll out will be limited to nutrition & fitness areas along with mathematical computational technology so that users are able to make informed decisions with their Bing search results.
It is official that Microsoft will be retiring its MSNBot1.1 and replacing it with the next bot: 2.0B. The team has made many improvements in the Bot 2.0 based on the performance concerns showed by webmasters. With the new development, Bing will be able to gather information in a better manner from large number of websites Microsoft indexes worldwide.
The MSN Homepage is out with a new, streamlined and less cluttered look. While marking another milestone in the history, the MSN team has finally succeeded in making a page that is easier to navigate and is filled with services that web users need on daily basis. You can now get information about online videos, sports, lifestyle, news, entertainment and Bing search experience all-together on the MSN Homepage.
An updated version of Bing for mobile browser has been recently released and is live at m.bing.com. The addition will serve as a great resource for map search, quick answers, local searches and has many more features:
Flight Status
You can now get the latest time for landing and departure of flight just by entering the airline and the number of flight.
Since yesterday Webmasters worldwide has not been able to add new sites to Bing Webmaster Tools!
We have several readers sending us mails about the issue. Seems like Bing Team is working on it:Not sure how long will it take to fix it though!
Of late, Microsoft has conducted a study that shows that images give the users 20% faster search results than the text only. Hence, it has become clear that images play a key role in various search activities for movies, cars, news and different products.
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