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Get Bing Screen Saver for your Windows

May 10 2010No Commented

Categorized Under: Bing

A screensaver for Bing has been released by Microsoft & can be found on UK Bing site and it will work on Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP with SP2 installed even if you download it from non – UK location. This screensaver highlights some of the best photo backgrounds used on the Bing.com homepage.

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This screen saver is in addition to previous Bing themes that have been provided by Microsoft on their Windows personalization page:

Set Bing Background as Wallpaper & Rotate it

August 5 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Bing, Internet, Tips n Trix

Daily homepage photos of Bing can be downloaded and used as a wallpaper for your computer that refreshes as soon as it refreshes over Bing.By using the code below, you can create a live daily updating bing theme.Long Zheng from www.istartedsomething.com & makeuseof.com helped get the code which can make the Bing Theme that uses Bing background as a daily wallpaper.


To create the theme, 1st copy and paste the code below in notepad and save it as “Bing.theme”
[[Theme]
DisplayName=Bing
[Slideshow]
Interval=1800000
Shuffle=1
RssFeed=http://feeds.feedburner.com/bingimages
[Control Panel\Desktop]
TileWallpaper=0
WallpaperStyle=0
Pattern=
[Control Panel\Cursors]
AppStarting=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_working.ani
Arrow=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_arrow.cur
Crosshair=
Hand=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_link.cur
Help=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_helpsel.cur
IBeam=
No=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_unavail.cur
NWPen=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_pen.cur
SizeAll=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_move.cur
SizeNESW=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_nesw.cur
SizeNS=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_ns.cur
SizeNWSE=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_nwse.cur
SizeWE=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_ew.cur
UpArrow=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_up.cur
Wait=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_busy.ani
DefaultValue=Windows Aero
Link=
[VisualStyles]
Path=%SystemRoot%\resources\themes\Aero\Aero.msstyles
ColorStyle=NormalColor
Size=NormalSize
ColorizationColor=0X6B74B8FC
Transparency=1
[MasterThemeSelector]
MTSM=DABJDKT
After you save it, just double click on the theme. file and make sure you select “download attachments” in the pop-up window.
That’s it, your bing theme should be good to go. To make sure the photos look their best, select the “Fit” option in the desktop background settings
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What does Microsoft-Yahoo deal includes.

July 29 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Bing, Google, Internet, MS News, Misc News, Yahoo


Real Choice. Better Value. More Innovation.

The key terms of the agreement are as follows:
  • The term of the agreement is 10 years;

  • Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10 year license to Yahoo!’s core search technologies, and Microsoft will have the ability to integrate Yahoo! search technologies into its existing web search platforms;

Microsoft Yahoo Finally togather

July 29 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Bing, MS News, Misc News, Yahoo

Global Deal Creates Better Choice for Consumers and Advertisers

SUNNYVALE, CA and REDMOND, WA — 29 July, 2009 — Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.

Online game to help improve Bing search results

July 28 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Bing, MS News

Microsoft Research have released an online game to help fine-tune search results for Bing.
The game is named “Page Hunt” and the basic idea is to show the player a random web page, and get the player to come up with a query that would bring up this page in the top few results on a search engine. The idea is that human computation games that elicit data from players can be used to improve search.
Page Hunt was developed by Raman Chandrasekar and Chris Quirk of Microsoft Research in partnership with The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Georgia Institute of Technology
. According to Microsoft “before we released the game to the web, we conducted a pilot study within our company. During this experiment, 341 people played Page Hunt over a period of ten days, generating over 14,400 labels on 744 web pages in the system. On average every player contributed 42 labels, and every page has about 19 labels.”
Page Hunt was unveiled at this week’s SIGIR 2009 conference in Boston. If you’re interested in helping improve Bing search results then checkout Page Hunt which is hosted at Microsoft’s Live Labs site. Microsoft Live Labs also includes Seadragon and Photosynth
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Bing users click on more ads than Google, Yahoo users

July 27 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Bing, Google

Users on Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, click on more ads than people who use Google or Yahoo – 55 percent more, according to an industry study.

Bing’s click-through rate in June was 1.5 percent, meaning 1.50 percent of searchers clicked on a paid link, according to search-advertiser Chitika. Meanwhile, Yahoo’s CTR was 1.24 percent and Google’s was 0.97 percent.