Bing Crawls the Web

Alexis Sanders shared Frédéric Dubut's presentation on how Bing crawls the Internet indexing information.

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Bing App Update

John Brandon extols the updated Bing app for offering better automatice barcode search and restaurant search.

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Image Slideshow Using Bing

Bing can run a slideshow of Web images .

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Bing Gains Improved Natural Language Search

Zach Minors reports that Bing is now able to interpret chatty (natrual language) queries . If a user asks who was the first president of the United States, an image of George Washington and a brief biography appears.

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Bing Social Networking Links

According to a Fox News article titled "Search Engines at War, Releasing Biggest Changes in Years," Bing has added a social networking component to their search results.

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Bing and Wolfram Alpha

According to a Computerworld by Nancy Gohring, Microsoft has reached an agreement to add the science data and mathematical abilities of Wolfram Alpha to Bing.


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Microsoft Bing

Microsoft Bing has been released. A nifty feature for its video search is that if you mouse over a video clip, a snippet of video begins to play. The majority of the video content seems to be from Youtube (a Google property), though it also found other sources that might have otherwise been hard to find.

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