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App Extensions Coming To Bing Ads

Published on 2014/11/07 By admin

App extensions will be available to advertisers on Bing Ads starting next spring. Timed to coincide with the removal of explicit mobile OS targeting, app extensions will be targeted automatically to a user’s OS and device. The extensions will feature an app’s icon and a call-to-action…

Bing Adds New Crawlers To Support Non-Responsive Mobile Designs

Published on 2014/11/04 By admin

Bing announced a new set of mobile crawlers with Bingbot Mobile User Agents to better support and recognize mobile websites that are not responsively designed.

Google (Now) Beats Siri And Cortana For Direct Answers — Study

Published on 2014/10/08 By admin

Stone Temple Consulting (STC) published a study in which it compared mobile answers to “3086 different queries” on Siri, Google and Cortana to determine how each performed relative to the others. Google was the winner with more direct answers and more complete information. Eric Enge who..

Bing Rolls Out New Updates For Its iPhone App

Published on 2014/09/23 By admin

Bing has released new updates for its iPhone app, adding a Bing Translator button, as well as including Bing’s image of the day and trending stories to the Today screen. The new Translator feature can be accessed by tapping the share icon in the app and then clicking the “Bing… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Bing App Linking For Windows & Windows Phone Devices

Published on 2014/08/26 By admin

With Google, Facebook and Twitter heavily promoting ways to promote apps within search and ads, few are taking notice of Bing’s efforts on that front. Bing has offer Bing App Linking since at least March 2014. Bing App Linking works in a similar way to Google App Indexing but specifically..

Amazon Fire Phone: Bing For Search, Nokia For Maps

Published on 2014/06/19 By admin

The emerging consensus from the early “hands on” or “first look” reviews is that the Amazon Fire Phone has some novel and interesting features but that it doesn’t measure up, overall, to the iPhone or “true Android” devices.

Microsoft Translation In Real-Time Over Skype

Published on 2014/05/28 By admin

Last night at the Re/Code Conference, Microsoft demoed real-time translation over Skype.

Bing Launches On Firefox OS, Does It Matter?

Published on 2014/05/12 By admin

Bing has launched an app for the Firefox Marketplace.

Bing Updates Its Android App With A New Look & Faster Performance

Published on 2014/05/02 By admin

Bing has rolled out a new look and feel for its Android app, claiming the updates make it more streamlined and “optimized for performance.” According to the announcement on Bing’s search blog, the app is faster than its previous version, and now lets users track their Bing reward… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Part Siri, Part Google Now: Microsoft Announces “Cortana” Virtual Assistant

Published on 2014/04/02 By admin

Rumored for months, Microsoft has formally announced its answer to Apple’s Siri and Google’s Voice Search/Google Now: Cortana. Danny Sullivan is at the Microsoft Build Conference and live blogging it