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Microsoft Says Testing Problem Behind Bing Outage

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Bing's 30-Minute Outage: A Sally Field Moment?

The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday

"The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" --Actress Sally Field during her Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in 1984's Places in the Heart In case you missed it--and most of you probably did--Microsoft's Bing search engine was offline for about 30 minutes on Thursday evening. What's noteworthy here...

• Bing Goes Offline For 30 Minutes - ITProPortal
• Bing Experienced a 30-Minute Outage This Morning; Did You Notice? [Outages] - Lifehacker
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Microsoft Bing outage this morning

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

World Tech Update: New Microsoft Bing Maps, Facebook Changes, and Intel's New CPU

PC World (Free subscription) | yesterday

Microsoft upgrades its online mapping service, Intel unveils a 48-core chip, Facebook announces major changes, and China has slow iPhone sales.

• Global news recap, World Tech Update, Dec. 4, 2009 - The Industry Standard
• Intel unveils energy-efficient 48-core chip; the wackiest stories of 2009; Microsoft's Bing tries to leapfrog Google Maps - newsletter archive

Microsoft Releases Bing API Software Development Kit (SDK)

The Road to Know Where (Free subscription) | yesterday

Microsoft has released their Bing API Software Development Kit (SDK) containing a Compiled HTML Help file and code samples for developing applications with the Bing API. The Bing API Software Development Kit provides: A Compiled HTML Help file that documents core concepts, available protocols and SourceTypes, and reference infomation necessary for developing applications with the Bing API. 65 code...

Google to Hold an Anything-Bing-Can-Do-We-Can-Do-Better Search Event (and Singalong?) Monday

BoomTown (Free subscription) | yesterday

Google answered BoomTown's blatantly begging plea to call, write or just say hi after I was inundated with news about Bing from Microsoft this week--emailing yesterday about a "search event" to be held Monday in Silicon Valley. It will be at the Computer History Museum, and the PR minion who wrote me noted "there'll be lots of news." News? Well, you don't have to ask me twice!

Bing dies, nobody notices and fewer care

iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Did you know that the Microsoft Bing search engine died this week? Don't panic, you are not alone.

Bing’s ‘Pepsi Challenge’

Screenwerk (Free subscription) | yesterday

I spoke with Microsoft during the Bing launch period about the iconic “Pepsi Challenge” ads of the late 1970s: Now it would seem Bing may be about to embark on a version of the same thing (we’ll see). Without much context, we learn about a study that involved a kind of week long “Bing challenge.” Reportedly [...]

Bing Maps Beta: Microsoft Should Repent and Simplify

The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday

Microsoft has released a new beta of the map function inside its Bing "decision engine." After only a few minutes with the Bing Maps beta , just like Microsoft promises, I was able to make a decision: Enough already. Maybe I am non-creative, not enough of a consumer, or not whoever it is that Bing has in mind, but I think this user interface is a disaster. All I want is a map. (This is a...

Bing Is Down (You Can Still Google, Though)

Mashable (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

Update: Bing is back up. We’ve emailed Microsoft to find out what happened. - Bing, the third largest search engine and Microsoft’s challenger to the dominance of Google, has gone down for the count. We have no idea when it will be back up. Here’s the lovely, garbled mess that we see on the Bing homepage currently: Internal Server Error – Read The server encountered an internal...

Bing Launches Streetside Maps

New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | yesterday

Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, December 4, 2009. Bing Launches Streetside Maps "In an effort to match one of Google's most popular features, Microsoft has added tools to Bing Maps that give users a continuous, street level view of many parts of the country."

Microsoft's Bing goes down

Cnet (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

In what could be a blow to Bing's image, the main Microsoft search site goes down.

Microsoft unleashes Updated Bing Maps Powered By Silverlight

ITProPortal (Free subscription) | yesterday

Bing, the search engine offering from Microsoft has of late gone through some intense modifications and has the potential of emerging as a serious threat to search engine giant Google.

Microsoft Bing down for 40 minutes on Thursday

TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

Microsoft's decision engine was down and out on Thursday for about 40 minutes due to a configuration change that went wrong. Users were unable to access Bing or were provided with incomplete search results from about 6:20 to 7:00 PM Pacific Time (UTC - 8) yesterday following some internal testing that had unforeseen consequences. Microsoft quickly acknowledged the issue with Bing and worked pretty...

Bing Goes Aerial With New Street Views

CoolTechZone (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

NewsFactor reports that Microsoft’s Bing search engine has update their maps to include Microsoft-like aerial and street views for their users. While clearly not a new concept as Google has had these features for sometime now, the question then becomes which maps provider is offering the best user experience? What does this mean to you? Bottom line [...]

Microsoft 10K in L.A. Bing Cashback Sweepstakes Official Rules & Eligibility

zaria | 11/18/2009

Microsoft 10K in L.A. Bing Cashback Sweepstakes Official Rules & Eligibility At approximately 3:00 pm CT on November 30, 2009 at 10000 Highway Fifty Five, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55441, we, or a company acting under our authorization, will select one potential Grand Prize winner, One (1) potential First Prize winner and One potential Second Prize winner in a random drawing from all eligible entries

Microsoft’s Bing Looks Nice. What About the Usability?

lillyjose2008 | 07/21/2009

The new search engine from Microsoft looks nice. At least for the front page, which displays a different, nice picture every day. What is Bing all about? The home page fails to communicate visitors what the website is all about. While everybody know what Google or Yahoo! do, almost no one knows what the heck is Bing.com. I would have inserted a nice tag line below the logo, something like “Microsoft’s...

Bing off to a Respectable Start

Peter Brooke | 06/12/2009

While it remains to premature to state victory, Microsoft’s latest attempt at search, Bing, is off to a respectable start. At a whopping two weeks old, Bing has generated a nice bump in users, possibly thanks to spreading the word about the newly released search engine. According to comScore.com, Bing’s market share in the U.S. rose from 9.1 to 11.1 percent between June 2nd and June 6th, an impressive...