Now View The Night Sky In Bing Maps
Mar 17, 2010 at 12:00pm ET by Greg Sterling
Roughly two years ago Microsoft introduced "WorldWide Telescope." At first it required a software download. It then was made available as a Silverlight web app. Today it's being integrated into the new Silverlight version Bing Maps. In other words, you can now "look up at the sky" and see how space looks over that geographic point on Earth.
The Bing Maps integration of WW Telescope was demonstrated a few weeks ago by Microsoft maps architect Blaise Arcas y Aguera at the TED conference. (The WW Telescope demonstration is near the end of the video at about 7:04.) It wasn't live for me as of [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local
Google’s St. Patrick’s Day Doodle & Logos From Others
Mar 17, 2010 at 9:06am ET by Barry Schwartz
If you visit Google.com today you may see a Google Doodle (logo) for St. Patrick's Day. Here is a picture of the special St. Patrick's Day Doodle for this year:
Google is not the only search engine with a special logo. Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com all have logos.
I have some additional logos from others in the industry at the Search Engine Roundtable. Also, if you want to see the St. Patrick's Day logos from the past 6 years or so, you can see them at 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 archives. [...]
Filed in: Ask: General, Google: Logos, Microsoft: Bing, Top News, Yahoo: General
Google Is Bing’s 4th Largest Referring Source
Mar 11, 2010 at 2:20pm ET by Danny Sullivan
What sites send Bing the most traffic? Here's a surprise. According to Hitwise, Google is Bing's fourth largest referring source.
Below are the top five sites that drive traffic to Bing, or "upstream" to Bing, as Hitwise calls it:
MSN is by far the top source, the last site visited by 42.7% of Bing users before they went to Bing. That's not surprising. MSN -- Microsoft's portal -- has long been a huge search driver for Microsoft. In fact, the company recently said that half of all Bing queries come from MSN.
Bing is also the default web search engine for Facebook, so Facebook make [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Stats: Hitwise, Top News
Facebook Search Gains Boost Bing & Motorola Puts Bing On Chinese Android Handsets
Mar 11, 2010 at 8:23am ET by Greg Sterling
In my discussion yesterday of the comScore search data I neglected to point out (as GigaOm has) that Facebook saw 10 percent search query growth in the past month. That's significant and it validates an argument I've long made that Facebook could turn out to be a meaningful player in search, which would in turn benefit Bing.
Here are the comScore "expanded" search data:
Meanwhile over on the other side of the globe Motorola has made a very public statement that whatever happens with Google in China, it will be working with Bing search on its Android handsets there. This comes from th [...]
Filed in: Google: Mobile, Microsoft: Bing, Top News
Watch The New Bing UK Commercial
Mar 10, 2010 at 9:47am ET by Barry Schwartz
Bing sent me a link to their new UK Bing commercial. The new UK ad blitz by Microsoft is aimed at capturing market share from Google in that region.
Here is that commercial.
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Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Outside US
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