A Windows 7 Federated Search Connector for Bing allows users to easily search Bing from within Windows 7:
To use it simply;
Source: MSDN Blogs
For the first time, natively, you can connect to your SQL Server 2008 spatial database right from MapPoint and pull in the respective fields, filtering data to be visualized in MapPoint 2009.
The MapPoint Add-In for SQL Server can be downloaded for free from the Microsoft Downloads Center.
Source: Bing Community
According to the deal:
The Microsoft - Yahoo! deal is intended to “improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry”.
How would it feel to have your photo published on the Bing.com home page for a day?
Now you can do it by entering the Facebook contest. But hurry up, the contest will be available until July 16th, 2009.
The winning photo will be used on Monday August 3rd. 2009.
Contest rules can be found here.
Best luck to the participants! However, my personal favorite photo has already been published on Bing.
Source: Channel 10
Continuing our report on new cool wallpapers, a few (unofficial) Bing wallpapers have seen the light of the Web :-).
You can get them here.
After Microsoft’s recent criticism of turning bing.com to a porn portal, Microsoft has moved into serving potentially explicit images and video content from a separate single domain, explicit.bing.net. This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the SafeSearch settings might be. This makes it much easier for companies to use filtering software to block unwanted content if SafeSearch has been turned off.
Additionally, Bing will begin returning source url information in the query string for images and video content so that companies who already use this method of filtering will be able to catch explicit content on Bing along with everything else they are already blocking for their customers.
Source: Bing Community
Although you may not see an RSS icon appear when you do a search on the new search engine, Bing.com, the feeds are there if you want them. As with the old search engine at Live.com, getting a feed for any search result is as simple as adding an extra parameter to the end of your search results URL.
To do so, first just do a search as usual for whatever topic you want the feed for. Then, up in the address bar, append “&format=rss” (without the quotes, of course) to the end of the URL.
Source: Channel 10
Instant translation is another way that Bing helps you complete tasks faster by presenting better organized and more relevant content.
What to expect?
Example query: translate I love you
Bing returns:
Example query: translate I love you to Japanese
Bing returns:
Example query: how do you say apple juice in Spanish
Bing returns:
Source: Microsoft Translator Official Team Blog
Microsoft has released three BingTones, Bing-branded ringtones for your mobile device.
They are available for download at the Microsoft Download Center (download size: 630 KB zipped).
