A Revamping of Bing in the Battle for Search Engine Supremacy

May 11, 2012 - 11:00am — Bibliofuture

A Microsoft-Facebook alliance plans an overhaul of Bing in an effort to loosen Google’s grip on the search engine market.

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May 11, 2012 - 11:20am — Bibliofuture

Bing Maps

One thing to really use Bing for is their maps. They have a bird's eye feature that is great. See this library in Hilliard, OH. Drag the picture around with the mouse. You can basically do a flyover of the library. If you are describing roads or places to park this bird's eye view is great.

May 11, 2012 - 12:54pm — Blake

+1

fersure fersure I alway Bing a map before I Google it. Right now you can't beat the bird's eye thing.

May 11, 2012 - 12:59pm — Anonymous

Wow!

Thanks for the link; this is a superior view of topography up close.

May 11, 2012 - 3:20pm — Bibliofuture

Horse

Horse standing on red chair outside library (Bird's eye view)
http://binged.it/KNV1xv

View from the ground of horse on chair
http://www.flickr.com/photos/randy687/3947070803/

May 11, 2012 - 7:45pm — Anonymous

Meh

I typed in my library's address, and at first I thought it looked really cool. When I zoomed in, however, it looked like they were using failry old data. The business park right next to us appeared to be a lot under construction, and those businesses have been open for 10+ years at this point.

May 12, 2012 - 11:08am — Bibliofuture