Bing iPad App Gets An Upgrade

By Barry Schwartz

Published: May 2, 2013 at 9:31 am

Bing has quietly released an update for the Bing iPad App, adding new features and making optimization improvements to the app. The app can be downloaded for free over here in the app store.

The changes, as listed in version 1.3 include:

Bookmark Web/Image/News Search Query
Provide Daily Trending Images with density layout
Enable Map Local Business Category Search
Add Popular Now in search suggestion
Performance Optimization in iPad1
Enable Related Search in detail web page
Enable Browsing Page Close Button
Dictionary, Mind Reader, Voice Search (CN mkt only)

I’ve tested the app on my iPad mini and it seems to run very smoothly. I did have some issues figuring out how to use the bookmark functionality, so I am not sure if there is a bug or it is just overly confusing. The popular now queries do indeed show up in search suggestions and the other features mentioned are welcome.

Bing first introduced the iPad search app on April 7, 2011 and their iPhone version on December 15, 2009.

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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