Archive for the ‘Bing’ Category

Bing Live Search

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Did it ever cross your mind on how a live search can be done? This pertains to a kind of search where search results will appear instantly as you type the term. This is all possible with Bing’s New API.

As some people have questioned the possibility of Bing replacing Google, well here is an answer. Bing with its new live search that utilizes JQuery and JSON equals an amazing search experience.

Introducing Bing’s Page Hunt Game

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

As of its release in the middle of this year, Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been making sounds all over the internet. It threatened its competitors with the new kind of search capabilities it offers. And as Microsoft wants to stay in touch its Bing users, they introduce Page Hunt Game.

Similar to Google Image Labeler, Bing’s Page Hunt Game aims to get feedbacks from its users. It lets Bing searchers to submit queries that site should present to them when they try to use the services Bing offers. This will surely make Bing a better and user-friendly search engine.

With this new step, Microsoft is really not giving up. Giving its users the freedom to interact with them will give them the edge of putting up new developments and improvements for Bing in which both parties will benefit. Good start for a new player in the field.

Bingtweets - Bing + Twitter

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

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The newest website, BingTweets, brings together two of the most popular sites in one homepage to give you both the power of Bing, Microsoft’s newest search engine, and Twitter, the leader in social networking tool.

BingTweets provides the user an access to top subjects over Twitter with the ability of Bing to search more broader topics. This is a convenient way of looking for something and being updated with the latest news and talk of the town. Every 30 to 60 minutes, the topics in the ‘trending topics’ change providing you the most updated lists.

Since this is still new, the service will be directly integrated to Bing’s homepage once the service got popular to the internet users.

Should Twitter Posts be Indexed?

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Recent news sprung up regarding the inclusion of tweets in Bing search. It sparked a lot of conversation among the crowd because it triggered the question of the importance of instant popular sentiment. Is it really that important to be indexed or is Bing just crafting some stuff to generate some buzz on the top social media site?

First, let us take a look at the nature of tweets. It is sent in an instant to explain what an individual is currently doing or feeling. Following that, it is true that it can generate a trend on what the people are thinking about or the things they are into. It can then provide niche researchers some good information.

But what about ordinary tweets as sources of information? For example, if I talk about cake in my tweet like “My mom baked an amazing cake for my birthday”, is this actually beneficial to the person who is actually searching for information on cakes. Just imagine. You will only type the word “cake” if one, you are interested to learn how to make it or if you want to buy it. Well, there may be the third option that you are just searching for the term just for fun but the tweet will not be helpful to any party.

My concern here is how Bing will filter through tweets to trigger the most important ones and those that do not matter at all. After all, the goal of search is to bring the most relevant web pages in the results. If Bing will just turn out to be a Twitter search engine, then it will just suck.

How to Rank in Bing

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

There was a huge noise on the internet when Microsoft released its latest search engine that is thought to rival Google’s skill of indexing: Bing. In fact there are lots of reports that Bing can quickly pick up certain websites that Google may ignore. But whatever it may do to the traffic and conversions of a particular website, Bing is another money well that one should discover.

But the first step is, of course, ranking in Bing. How do you do it you ask? Here is how.

Keep it Simple

Some sites may have very complex structures. There are those which have complex designs and scripts. This is not very Bing-friendly. You must keep all HTML simple and easy to pick-up. That will go with links as well. It is always better to keep things static.

Submit to Bing

There is no easier way to get rank in Bing than by simply informing them that your website exists. And since the website is pretty new, pickup is pretty quick. So did you think that there is a complex algorithm you have to follow? Not with Bing.

Allow MSNBot

As with other bots, be sure to have your Robots.txt file allow MSNBot. If not, then you will not be indexed for they cannot crawl your site. Simple as that.