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Monday, November 16, 2009 9:43 AM

34 Essential Bing search tips

Matt over on MSN UK has posted a great article covering 34 essential Bing search tips . http://tech.uk.msn.com/microsoft/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=149716726&page=1 Some new ones to me as well such as: specifying file types “ For a tighter search,
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:36 AM

Bing: Remember Remember the 5th of November

Nice to see the Bing   homepage in the UK  lit up with fireworks for the 5th November annual celebration for Guy Fawkes night. From Wikipedia: “ Guy Fawkes Night is an annual celebration on the evening of 5 November . It marks the downfall of
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:10 AM

Bing Search Overload Syndrome: Santa Video

I am expecting to see a few more seasonal videos in the run up to Christmas etc. Thanks to Kip on the Liveside for the spot Rob Technorati Tags: Bing
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:07 PM

Bing and the Vampires

with Halloween around the corner I expect to see lots of related stuff popping up around the web like this from the Bing team   Rob Technorati Tags: Bing , Vampires
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:26 PM

Using Bing API to help improve the Environment

Just saw these cool uses of the Bing API on the bing community site “ Watch short videos featuring two "Will Code for Green" contest winners, who introduce their innovations based on the Bing API. Patrick Colin McGraw discusses his winning entry,
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:02 AM

Bing Search on this blog

With great thanks to the team that run all the backend stuff to get all the blogs.msdn and blogs.technet servers running for getting this update sorted. You should notice that the search box on the left hand side is now a lovely Bing one It works pretty
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:48 AM

I’m A PC And I Use Fix It And I’m 4 And 3/4

  Thanks to Liveside for the spot, pretty impressive 4.75 year old. Rob Technorati Tags: Bing , I'm a PC , fixit , microsoft , IE8
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:10 AM

How to Set A Bing Wallpaper Desktop Slideshow In Windows 7

Updated 1/Nov/2009: Ok so much easier now as you can download the official Bing theme pack on the personalisation gallery So if you love those wonderful Bing homepage images there is an easy way to make them your background wallpaper in 4 simple steps
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:43 AM

Bing laptop skins and visual search

2 quick Bing related items that I picked up from via twitter First up is the super cool Bing laptop skins   Laptop Skins by Schtickers –  Just noticed that it is MS Employees only deal which is a real pity but am really tempted when I get a
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 8:42 AM

Giving feedback on Bing Maps

Is pretty simple, whether your feedback is a problem with listings, maps or directions or general feedback features you would like to see or a privacy concern. Just press the feedback link at the bottom of the screen Then fill in the form with your type
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:36 PM

50 Fantastic Bing Tricks for Students & Librarians

Thanks to Kip from the liveside who posted this link last week whilst I was on holiday 50 Fantastic Bing Tricks for Students & Librarians | Online Colleges Grouped up into 5 categories: Finding Information Research & Collaboration Images &
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:48 AM

10 ways to get the most out of Bing

Not surprisingly I am big fan of Bing and this article from techrepulic is a great way to show off some of the great bingness 10 ways to get the most out of Bing | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com It covers some of the great features of bing and how you can
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Friday, August 14, 2009 10:38 AM

Stay up to date: sign up to the Bing newsletter

Its really quite easy if you want to have the latest info to stay informed about the new ways that Bing will help you find what you need  go to Stay up to date: sign up to the Bing newsletter and follow the instructions.   Rob Technorati Tags:
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:58 AM

Bing TV adverts

So we don’t get these in the UK but really liked the TV adverts that are showing in the US at the minute. Wonder if we will get price predictor in the UK ? Thanks to Kip on LiveSide for the tip Rob Technorati Tags: Bing
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:33 AM

Improving Bing Results with a game

This is a really smart little project coming out of Microsoft Research called Page Hunt that aims to improve search results in Bing , whilst at the same time having a little fun :) Seattlepi.com has a little more on this project at http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/174721.asp?from=blog_last3
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