Bing Project Silk Road Now with Bing API 2.0
The Live Search to Bing rebranding covers the complex variety of nooks and crannies associated with Microsoft's search engine, including the application programming interface.
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10.6.2009 Collection of published Vista SP1 API changes from MSDN
Microsoft might choose not to tell its enthusiasts anything about Windows Vista Service Pack 1, but they can’t afford to keep it a secret to the development community. Thanks to pacpis for this article.
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22.7.2007 Google to Give Developers Access to Trends API
Google will eventually give programmers access to an API for its Trends analysis tool.
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5.12.2007 Upgrade Your Site's Authentication with the New ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API
In its first release, ASP.NET introduced forms authentication. This provided a powerful framework for handling user authentication in a secure fashion and with an easy-to-use API. The core of forms authentication hasn't changed in ASP.NET 2.0, so most of the tricks and techniques remain usable. However, a lot of work has been done in ASP.NET 2.0 to expose a new membership system that makes it even easier to create more powerful systems for user authentication and management. When you explore the basics of the provider model (upon which this new membership system is based) and its tight integration with forms authentication, you'll inevitably wonder: how does this affect my existing code and database of users and roles?
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Windows 7 RC API Code Pack for .NET Framework
Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework is designed to permit developers to access a range of features associated with the next iteration of Windows that are not available in .NET Framework, in managed code.
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8.5.2009 Bing 2.0 debuts
Microsoft is rolling out over the next few weeks its first major release of Bing since the search engine launched in June.
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11.11.2009 Bing Is Live Worldwide
Microsoft's next-generation search engine, scratch that, decision engine, is now live worldwide. The Redmond company started rolling out Bing, formerly codenamed Kumo, on May 28, 2009, and is right on track to completing the introduction of the evolution to Live Search by June 3rd.
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1.6.2009 Bring a little Bing into your Windows 7
The team over at Bing wanted to show off their support for the launch of Windows 7, by putting together the top images on Bing in June, July and August into a Windows 7 theme pack.
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22.10.2009 Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search?
ata from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing, Microsoft’s new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.
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14.6.2009 Bing 2.0: Coming this fall, maybe even next week
If the Tweets coming out of Microsoft’s annual company meeting are on point, the 2.0 release of Microsoft’s Bing search engine is coming this fall, and possibly as soon as next week.
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15.9.2009 Microsoft's Bing: 10 burning questions
Microsoft rolled out Bing sort of—it won’t be fully deployed until June 3—but questions already abound.
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29.5.2009 Microsoft to Expand Bing Translator Language Support
Moving forward with its machine translation technology, Microsoft has indicated that it plans to expand the service in order to cover additional languages.
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7.7.2009 How to Disable/Turn off Bing Home Page Image
Microsoft new search engine Bing.com is steadily becoming popular and more and more users have started using bing to search.
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3.8.2009 Bing grabs 10 percent of search market
Microsoft's new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday.
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18.9.2009 Tafiti Search Visualization - Silverlight + Live Search API
What is Tafiti? It is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). The source code for www.tafiti.com is available!
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19.12.2007 Microsoft confirms Yahoo deal, Bing to power Yahoo! search
Yahoo! and Microsoft have both confirmed earlier reports of a deal over search.
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29.7.2009 Download Bing Wallpapers & Set as Desktop Wallpaper with Wallpaper Downloader
In past we had reviewed Bing Downloader tool to download Bing background wallpaper and here is wallpaper downloader which is a small utility to download bing.com background image and set as desktop wallpaper.
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18.9.2009Bing cashback exploit discovered, Microsoft sends in lawyers
A Bing cashback vulnerability has been discovered by Samir Meghani of the Bountii Team. The flaw exists due to a software API oversight that allows
users to fake transactions to Bing. Currently, Bing does not detect these faked transactions. The flaw affects both the customer and merchant.
According to Samir, in his original posting, "merchants have a few options for reporting, but Bing suggests using a tracking pixel. Basically, the
merchant adds a tracking pixel to their order confirmation page, which will report the the transaction details back to Bing." Samir detailed that the
process was flawed but didn't pin point exactly how to generate fake transactions. Bing Cashback is an initiative that pays people to search with
Bing.
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10.11.2009Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com
Today we released an update to the Bing for mobile browser at m.bing.com. In addition to being a great resource for local searches, quick answers, and
maps, we have some new features to tell you about...
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31.10.2009Microsoft rolls out Bing Video
Microsoft announced today that it is consolidating MSN Video into Bing Video. Bing Video will offer MSN's array of videos, and videos from sites
such as Hulu, ABC, Youtube and more than 300 content providers. The old video.msn.com portal will now forward directly to Bing Video. In a company
blog posting, a Microsoft spokesperson detailed Bing video: "Today, we are announcing a new version of Bing Videos that brings together the rich
editorial content and programming of MSN Video with the web-wide breadth and great search capabilities of Bing, to deliver a new online video
destination that offers a comprehensive and faster video experience.
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11.11.2009Will Bing make a ding?
Since Microsoft officially announced their new search engine Bing on Thursday it seems to have impressed many critics and is showing definite
improvements over its predecessor Live Search. But does Bing have what it takes to make an impact and claim a decent chunk of the market share? Here
we will look at various aspects and issues that may contribute to Bing being either a success or another disappointment for Microsoft. Does it have a
ring? So to start off, does the name have a ring to it?
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31.05.2009Microsoft consolidates explicit Bing content to new address
When Neowin reported last week about Bing allowing users to watch porn videos and browse pornographic material using its search, businesses, schools
and other large corporations complained that Bing maybe a gateway to free porn. Bing was blocked by some companies to prevent porn surfing during
work hours, where Microsoft instantly became to form a solution to the problem.
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16.06.2009Bing gains market share
Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, has managed to take the third spot in the top search providers for August 2009. Bing was launched back in
May 2009 and has managed to snatch 10.7% market share with 1.1 billion searches in August 2009. Bing has a month-over-month growth of 22.1%, becoming
the fastest growing search engine in the top 10 search providers. Bing also just released Visual Search earlier this week that returns thumbnail
images using Silverlight. Microsoft will also be releasing Bing 2.0 sometime in the near future, adding new features to the decision engine.
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17.09.2009Bing Still Growing, Steals Market Share from Google
We already knew that Microsoft’s
Bing got off to a good start by gaining
about 3% market share in June, according to comScore.
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analytics and research firm StatCounter has released their July numbers for search, and they’re telling the same story: Bing is gaining
traction. According to the report, Bing has gained 1.24% market share, up to 9.41%.
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04.08.2009Is Google worried about Bing?
Everybody knows about Microsoft's recent re-branding and re-engineering of Live Search, Bing, and how it has recently become available for the
public to use. There was certainly a big fuss kicked up over this; there was an immense amount of speculation about 'Kumo' beforehand, and
many people had their own ideas on what it could be. Now that everything is cleared up, the initial launch hype has died down a bit, and the rumors
are gone, the question remains... how will Bing do against Google? Or, perhaps just as importantly... how do Google feel about it?
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15.06.2009Bing launches in the UK
Today a new search engine for the UK has been thrown into the mix. Microsoft's Bing UK, following a period of trial and continued in-depth
analysis of consumer usage and behaviour, has been put through its paces and Bing is now shedding its beta tag. During the previous five months of
beta testing, the Bing team have been focused on developing a UK-centric search destination based on feedback, trends in searching habits and user
requirements. Bing's new search features organise results in a user friendly way and diminish Internet overload and clutter, helping UK consumers
get to the information that matters most to them quicker, making decisions faster.
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13.11.2009Silverlight powered Bing 2.0 on its way this month?
That's the message coming out of yesterdays annual company meeting at Microsoft. Several Microsoft employees tweeted that Microsoft's
improvements to Bing maps is "exciting" with one going as far as to claim "BING 2.0 terrific !! watch out guys ! bing + silverlight in maps =
amazing !! goodbye google". One Microsoft tweet-aholic claims that the company is set to release the update next week whilst others claim it will be
ready at some stage in September.
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11.09.2009Bing aiming to win this Christmas
The holiday season is nearly upon us and Microsoft has signaled it wants to be the search engine for Christmas this year. A new commercial, released
earlier this week and spotted first by the folks at LiveSide, highlights the familiar "search overload syndrome" that Microsoft referred to in its
first Bing commercials in June when Bing officially launched to the world. Since the launch of Bing, Microsoft has managed to snatch 10.7% market
share with 1.1 billion searches in August alone. The advert has a holiday season feel as a young child visits Santa to explain his wish list for
Christmas.
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06.11.2009Microsoft's Bing Maps updated
Microsoft have updated and optimised Bing Maps with a set of new features and an improved look and feel. Chris Pendleton, Bing Maps Technical
Evangelist, confirmed the changes in a company blog post yesterday. "If you visited Bing Maps today you may have noticed a new look and feel. Well,
that's because it has a new look and feel" noted Pendleton. The full list of changes are listed below:Draggable Routes - Generate a router and
drag the route to change directionsZoom Bar - Jump to specific zoom levels within predefined settingsCommand Parsing - Intelligent searching, for
example want traffic info?
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11.11.2009Bing actually has three new advertisements
Yesterday, Neowin reported that Microsoft had posted the first advertisement for Bing, despite the website only having been available for a very short
time. Well, it appears that there isn't just one video to show off the new decision engine... there are already three. That's right, a YouTube
account for Bing has been created and videos are already filling it up quite quickly. Since we're kind, we'll post them all here for you. The
first one we have already posted on that aforementioned link, but we'll put it here anyway, in a higher resolution format.
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04.06.2009Bing launches Visual Search, powered by Silverlight
Last week Neowin.net reported that Bing 2.0 was coming and would be powered by Silverlight. Microsoft has now unveiled its next version of their
decision engine, Bing Visual Search. The new Visual Search, powered by Silverlight, lets users scroll through galleries of images using specific
keywords. Users can browse in the visual search by products, sports, consumer electronics, famous people, entertainment, reference and many more
categories. The updated search makes it easier for users to find what they are looking for through the stylish 3D flip image layout. Bing now helps
users sort through their choices by "Most popular on Bing", eliminating choices for you to help decide on what to buy.
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15.09.2009Microsoft officially launches new search at Bing.com
After several months in the planning, Microsoft has finally taken the covers off its new web search engine, Bing. Set to go live in under a week, Bing
is not just a rebranding of Microsoft's previous search site Live Search but is a major update introducing new features and a new interface,
touted as a "decision engine". Having been in internal testing for a while under the codename of Kumo, Bing was unveiled today - as expected - at
the All Things Digital D7 conference by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Bing is expected to start rolling out in the coming days with worldwide
availability expected by June 3.
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28.05.2009Live Search Club Becomes "Club Bing"
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Microsoft Announces Bing Travel
Microsoft's Bing Travel search destination aims to help consumers make smart travel decisions through a variety of innovative tools and features.
According to a report by StatCounter, Microsoft's Bing search engine has overtaken Yahoo as the No. 2 search engine in the United States and
worldwide.
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Fox News: Bing is free porn portal
Fox News has come forward with criticisms of Microsoft's recently unveiled search engine Bing, claiming that it provides "a cornucopia of
pornography" and that it is easy to transform "the search engine into very own pornographic Web site." Particularly troubling for Fox News
is Bing's autoplay feature, which allows visitors to preview "explicit pornographic" (and other) videos without having to leave the search
engine.
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neowin.net - 03.06.2009
Microsoft releases MP3 Bing ring tones for your mobile
You may have read the title and thought this was a joke but I kid you not, Microsoft has released a pack of 3 ring tones where people say the word
bing in a rapid and alien-like fashion. The pack is available at Microsoft's download site. All 3 tones try to create a ring tone like sound but
the word bing repeated over and over is slightly alien-like. Bing is Microsoft's latest search engine which has some fairly amusing and catchy
adverts associated with it. The search site has come under fire this week, being branded as a "porn portal" by some for how easy it is to acquire
pornographic video.
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neowin.net - 04.06.2009
Bing's traffic grows larger than CNN, Digg, and Twitter
A little more than a month ago, Microsoft officially launched Bing.com. Preliminary reports that are now being released are showing that the search
engine is again continuing to climb in terms of unique visitors and total number of searches. Last week it was revealed that Bing took 8.23% of the
U.S. markets web searches for the month of June, which was up from 7.81% in the month of May. And today reports are coming in that Bing has continued
to grow in terms of unique visitors for the month of June. According to Compete.com, Bing saw a total of 49.57 million unique visitors in June.
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