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Bing Facebook Map App Shows Your Friends Location On Facebook

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Bing Maps team has created a new app called “My friends”, which pulls your data from Facebook profile to show your friends locations on Bing maps.

Just open the My Friends application, login through Facebook Connect, select “Allow” to allow the Bing Maps to connect to your Facebook profile, that’s all you need to. Now the profile pictures of all your friends who have listed a “Current City” in their profile will be pinned to the map,

Current City in Facebook

as you can see here:

Facebook friends in bing

It’s really fun to see all your friends location on a map like this, just click on the “+” sign that may appear above any of your friends profile pictures to see more friends located in that particular city.

Link: My Friends Map App @ Bing

Bing 404 Plugin For WordPress

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If you are looking for a plugin to manage 404 error pages in a more better way in your WordPress blog, here’s a plugin “Bing404” for WordPress by Microsoft. Even though WordPress has a default 404 template which avoids otherwise a dead “Page Not Found” error, you might still want to handle 404 error pages better so that you won’t loose your visitors landing your 404 pages accidentally. Bing 404 plugin shows a list of possible pages on your domain via search results based on the keyword  (you may range of domains to narrow down the search).

Follow these steps to start using this in your blog:

1. Download the Bing404 WordPress plugin

2. Upload the plugin to your blog and activate it.

3. Get the Bing App ID using your existing Windows Live ID.

4. Configure the plugin by entering the Bing App ID and you can also customize other settings.

Bing404 plugin configuration

The plugin includes a 404 page, if you check the option to use this 404 page that came with the plugin, it should work without any code modifications. However, if you want to use this plugin with your own 404 page, you may have to add the following code to your template’s 404.php

<?php if(function_exists('bing404_search_bing')) { echo bing404_search_bing(); } ?>

Now that you have implemented the plugin, check the 404 pages yourself. You can learn more about this plugin at thus post by watching the video below:

Watch this video to learn more:

Bing iPhone App Crosses Million Downloads And Gets Updated

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Bing app has been getting a huge response from all the iPhone / iPod users according to the update released by Bing forum in which they claim that Bing iPhone app has crossed over a million downloads.

Bing had released it’s app for Apple iPhone and iPod in November 2009 and since then there have been many updates to the app, and now here comes another update (Version 1.1).The new update has added some important features to the app:

  • Bookmarks and improved web browsing
  • Sharing
  • Copy and paste URLs
  • Parental control on search settings
  • Search history and private search
  • Explicit location setting
  • Tighter integration of contacts in directions
  • Support for 1st generation iPod touch devices

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Download Bing for iPhone, iPod touch, & iPad (via iTunes App Store)

What Search Engines Have To Say About Themselves !! [Just For Fun]

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I got the idea of posting this post after seeing a funny picture of Google suggestions for Twitter at this page.I wanted to know what these search engines think about themselves (or at least suggest us), that would the next funniest thing to know.I went ahead using "Search Suggestions’ feature that all the major search engines launched sometime back, and took the screen shots of the major 3 search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo..GBY, the great 🙂

Check out the results yourself..

Google thinks about Google

Bing about Bing

Yahoo about Yahoo

Looks funny, isn’t it 🙂

Funny: Microsoft Admits MSNbot is Slow !!

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We all know that Bing, the search engine from Microsoft indexes web pages at a slower rate than most of the other search engines (G and Y !! for instance).

But it’s interesting to note that even Microsoft admits the truth about their MSNbot 2.0 which they introduced in November 2009.

Brett Yount, Program Manager @ Bing Webmaster Center replies to the question put forward by an Indian webmaster about only one page of his site being indexed at Bing webmaster community forum.

See his reply in the below screen shot.

Bing MSNbot slow

It is well known in the industry that MSNbot is fairly slow

It’s indeed very much true that Bing indexing is too slow and never indexes a site properly.The good example to quote here would be our Techrena itself.

See these screen shots:

Google shows that it has indexed about 125 pages of Techrena.net

Google Indexing Techrena Bing Indexing: Indexed only 9 pages, out of which 3 are sitemaps !! and this has been static for more than 2 months now.

Bing Techrena Indexing

Perhaps it’s the time Microsoft should really think about increasing the indexing capability of MSNbot (for including in Bing).Are they listening??

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Bing Brings Twitter Search

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Twitter Search right from Bing!

Bing has today announced that It has integrated Twitter search in the universal Bing search, which now lets you the latest real-time tweets for your favorite topic or from the ‘Hottest topics on Twitter’.

Bing is also letting users know the ‘Shared links about Hottest Topics’ that the majority number of users are sharing.It’s known that Bing was previously gained access to the tweets of celebrities to include them in Bing search for testing purposes.

Twitter is providing Bing access to the overwhelming deluge of public, real-time tweets rushing in from all around the world so they can help you find those that make the most sense right now.

Twitter Team in their Blog Post

Bing and twitter search

The deal seems to have worked out and now Bing has access to all the tweets data of whole public in Twitter and this information is available via a simple Bing search.

At present the this is restricted to the US users.

Link:Access the Bing’s Twitter Search.

Microsoft’s Bing is Buzzing on Internet

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Microsoft’s new search engine Bing (Yes, Live search is gone and Bing is here instead).Microsoft’s efforts to bring this ‘Bing’ [http://www.bing.com/]are paying off as of now.Reports are out already that suggest that Bing has overtaken Yahoo as the second preferred search engine in the U.S.

Bing has been set as the default search engine on Internet Explorer 6. bing logoBing is also censoring search results for the searches like ‘sex’ on the search engine.

Microsoft has also started publicizing Bing among mobile phones users worldwide by releasing mobile ring tones called ‘BingTones’.

Has Microsoft delivered something up to Google? Primary tests show that Bing even though may not be a Google spoiler, but definitely a much better product from Microsoft.

Bing is changing it’s background picture daily so that users don’t feel bored.

Reports confirming that Bing has been well received by the internet users worldwide reached even Google which is set to review Microsoft’s new search engine tomorrow.

Good start ,Microsoft!!

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