Bing Maps Hops The Pond: Now In The UK
Nov 13, 2009 at 10:18am ET by Greg Sterling
You may not have known this but the Microsoft Maps experience in the UK was totally different than in the US. The former was based on multiMap, a company Microsoft acquired in 2007. Here's what the UK experience looks like with multiMap:
Here's what a Bing Maps version of London looks like:
The Bing version is quite a bit cleaner and more pleasing in my view. Many of the Bing Maps capabilities, such as "Birds Eye" aerial imagery, had been available through multiMap prior to this however.
Now Bing Maps proper will be available in the UK. The Bing Community blog details the chan [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Outside US
Bing… In… Space! (& Google, Too)
Oct 13, 2009 at 12:54pm ET by Barry Schwartz
A reader pointed us to the Delta 2 rocket launch where Microsoft was a co-sponsor. If you look closely, you can see the Bing logo on the rocket ship.
While Bing's logo went into space, Google today announced a partnership with DigitalGlobe to launch a satellite into space to provide "high-quality imagery in Google Earth & Google Maps."
What about Yahoo? Well, they did bury a Time Capsule in earth in October 2006 which wont be opened until March 2, 2020. Not exactly space, but still feels a bit futuristic. [...]
Filed in: Google: Earth, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Marketing, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Marketing
‘Augmented Reality’ Is Also A Form Of Search
Aug 12, 2009 at 9:22am ET by Greg Sterling
We're really just at the beginning of the era of "mobile search." Even what we think of as "search" will be dramatically altered by innovations in mobile. In this first phase the transfer of what might be called the "query box" (and related links) into mobile is complete. In time, however, we many even come to see that image -- the white box with the search button to the right -- as a kind of metaphor for something more intangible (i.e., directed intent) that can be fulfilled in a variety of ways.
Google is already the dominant player in search on mobile devices and certainly on smartphon [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Mobile, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Bing Mobile, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines
What Micro-Hoo Might Mean For Local Search
Jul 31, 2009 at 1:19pm ET by Matt McGee
As the dust begins to settle on the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, we're finding that this week's announcement raised as many questions as it answered. The companies told Danny and Greg that the agreement covers "web, image, and video search." But what about the many search verticals that Yahoo and Microsoft are involved in? These are areas that, if not technically covered by the "web, image, and video search" label, are certainly highly connected to those products. And they're likely to feel the impact of Micro-Hoo's plans in some way, at some point.
One of those verticals is the Local/Maps [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Business Issues, Top News, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Maps & Local
MSN Overhauls City Guides, Integrates With Live Search
May 11, 2009 at 1:23pm ET by Matt McGee
MSN and Live Search probably don't get enough attention in the local search field, but the reality is that there's a solid core of usage thanks to the default experience offered on many PCs -- Windows OS and Internet Explorer. (On a purely anecdotal level, an old blog post I wrote about adding a business to Live Local Search is the 3rd most popular article on my blog in 2009, and MSN/Live sends it the most traffic.)
With that in mind, Live Search's recent announcement that they've overhauled MSN City Guides is worth paying attention to.
The new city guides integrate Live Search and Live [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local
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