Wait, there is Bing Maps? Yes, there is. While it’s not as popular as Google Maps and Apple Maps, Bing Maps does exist – even when it doesn’t have its own Android and iOS app. The latest update is quite cool and worth mentioning. The Bing Maps team had just announced the availability of seeing […]
Microsoft Bing out of Beta – After more than 2 years of localisation and product development since the Australian launch, Microsoft Bing (the search engine) has now been officially out of Beta. The beta tag has been removed today, the 15th of November 2011, after more than 2 years of testing and updates to make
Some say we tend to work better and more efficient when it involves pictures. The theory is the same when people searches for information. Bing Australia’s search engine now delivers a list of visual searches available (Bing Visual Search) on tennis players, recipes, and many more. In theory, this should make us quicker to search.
According to the press release I got a few days ago, Bing now shows movie session times within the Bing’s search results in Australia. When I tried typing “Toy Story 3” in the Bing’s search field, I could actually see the movie session times being displayed on the top of the search results (screenshot above).
Microsoft has renamed its upcoming new search engine called Kumo into Bing. I personally like the sound of Kumo better than Bing (It’s unclear where that name was coming from – probably from the StarWars’ Jar Jar Binks character? :D I think it’s taken from the sound effect when something that you are looking for
