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Recently we partnered with our friends over at Wowhead.com to create a Bing Visual search gallery of the hottest World of Warcraft in-game weapons and gear.

Looking for a Deadly Gladiator’s Bonegrinder or an Argent Skeleton Crusher? You can now filter, search, and see what other diehard Wow players are saying about all of the items to find what you need faster.

Don’t know which weapon you need to beat Keli'dan the Breaker? We have pulled in all the relevant information from various Wow Bloggers including reviews, feedback and have even included videos into the gallery so you can make the best decision.

The new WoW gallery in Visual Search organizes items through filters and gets you to that much needed pair of boots or weaponry so you can get back to your game.

Now go and decide what you need and get back to the raid.

Kristin Meldahl – Bing

Last week we shared the exciting fact that we had completed the migration of web search results for our search alliance with Yahoo!.

Today we reached another important milestone as we will be inviting Yahoo! Search Marketing to begin their transition to Microsoft Advertising adCenter in the US and Canada.

This means we expect the paid search transition to be complete by the end of October.

It’s been a busy summer, and we are excited about all the great progress we have made working hand in hand with Yahoo!

We are looking forward to a smooth transition this fall, and more great innovation coming from Bing, adCenter and the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance.

Satya Nadella - Senior Vice President, Online Services Division

Today we are happy to announce the first official Bing for Mobile Android App available to Verizon customers. You can now download the free Bing App from your Verizon Wireless Android phones’ Marketplace.

The app homepage features the Bing image of the day, complete with clickable hotspots that you can explore and discover related trivia. Did you miss one of the latest images? Don’t worry; you can still swipe through up to 7 days’ worth of Bing images.

Are you a visual person? Try the image search feature that has endless scrolling results (Tip: this also works for any search result). Then easily swipe through image previews and click straight through to the image host site.

Now, do you see the mic option on the homepage? Our investment in voice search continues in our Android App and works great for searches like map locations as well as web search. This works especially well when looking for “Instant answers” which give you quick and relevant answers for things like movies, stock quotes, flight status and local listings.

Just say “movies,” for a quick result of movie listings, theaters and show times nearby, or say the flight information you are looking for, we will show you the departure, arrival, and other relevant information such as traffic, weather, news, and hotels details.

Voice search is also great when it comes to your local business listings. Give it a try, even something complex, hold the phone to your ear and speak, or press the mic button—it’s that simple.

The Android app also has a pretty smooth mapping feature. First, Bing will automatically find your current location. You can then easily discover new places by category such as restaurants, banks, theaters and you can choose whether you want walking or driving directions. Swipe through each step of your directions, and check out how fast the map pans and zooms. For times when you only have one hand free and can’t pinch, there is the handy zoom-out button.

There are a bunch of other features we’d love to tell you about, like local listing reviews, ratings and news. But rather than drone on about them, just download the app from your Android’s Marketplace, give it a spin and let us know what you think.

Andy Chu – Bing for Mobile

Other posts of interest:

iPhone App Mania with Bing

Using your social network to search with your Bing for Mobile iPhone app

Shop with ease with your Bing for Mobile iPhone App

Bing on your mobile browser, iPhone, and beyond

Bing for iPhone Update

Earlier this year we launched A New Entertainment Experience for Bing, and part of those new features was a new way to really Experience the music with Bing. We have found that Bing shares a passion and enthusiasm for music with music fans everywhere and today we are excited to be partnering with Alpha Broadcasting in Portland, OR, on their new live performance venue called The Bing Lounge.

The Bing Lounge will bring Rose City residents a line-up of performances to enable the community to come together and experience great music, sports and culture. In case you are not able to make it to The Bing Lounge, all of the performances will be available exclusively on Bing Video in HD.

The lounge will host up to 80 musical performances, a monthly medical speaker series with OHSU, a quarterly Business Decision-Maker series, visiting and local athlete outings and much more. The lineup is starting today with Five For Fighting, so make sure to check back for the links to all the latest HD videos.

Beyond music, Portland is also recognized as the street food capital of the world. What better way to embrace and celebrate all of the unique and numerous food cart options to the foodies of Portland than with The Bing Food Cart Finder, which is available free at Bing.com. This app offers a unique experience that allows you to easily navigate the Portland food cart scene on your PC or on the go. It will give you details on more than 250 food carts in the Portland area, including editorial reviews, photos and menus to help you decide what and where to grab your next meal.

Access to some of the best music and food is what Portland is all about and we hope with The Bing Lounge and The Bing Food Cart Finder you are able to experience the food and music that make Portland such a great entertainment city.

Danielle Tiedt, General Manager of Marketing, Bing

In our last update we shared that we had begun testing Bing results in Yahoo! search as we move forward with our transition.

Today I am happy to share that Bing is powering Yahoo!’s search results in the US and Canada (English only for now, the other languages will come in the weeks and months ahead).

So what’s next? We continue to work hard on the migration to adCenter, and are optimistic about completing this phase later this fall. As we have said all along, our primary goal is to provide advertisers with a quality transition experience in 2010, while being mindful of the holiday season.

This is a great milestone for Bing and Yahoo! and our customers, and we are happy to report the transition has gone smoothly and we feel great about the progress our search alliance has been making over the summer.

Satya Nadella - Senior Vice President, Online Services Division

Other posts of interest:

Testing begins with Yahoo!

Exciting Times for Bing and Yahoo!

Are you a fan of instant answers on Bing? Well in case you didn’t know, you can even get instant answers on your phone. Instant answers show up at the top of your search results, offering the most relevant information to help you find what you are searching for without having to click on multiple links. This is especially great if you are looking for movie show times, flight status, weather, stock quotes or local listings.

Movies: Find show times at theaters near you, and watch clips and trailers

Flight Status: Find departure, arrival, traffic and weather info

*flight status not currently supported by RIM

Weather: Find out the current weather and a four day forecast

Stock Quotes: Latest stock quotes and financial information

Local Listings: Find phone numbers, business details, ratings and map

The next time you find yourself sitting in the airport wondering if your flight is on time or what weather is in store for you when you land, use Bing for mobile.

Andy Chu – Bing for Mobile

Other posts of interest:

iPhone App Mania with Bing

Using your social network to search with your Bing for Mobile iPhone app

Shop with ease with your Bing for Mobile iPhone App

Bing on your mobile browser, iPhone, and beyond

Bing for iPhone Update

When you’re out and about and need to find somewhere to go, you probably want to search around where you are right now. The Local section on m.bing.com does just that. Using the GPS on your phone (or nearby cell towers), Bing shows you a list of suggestions based their popularity, your location, and the time of day. You can choose the radius for your search, narrowing to .5 miles for congested areas. Searching in the morning? Bing may show you coffee shops and shopping. At night, the suggestions may switch to entertainment and pubs. Best of all, you can display all listings on a single map.

On the home screen, click the “Local” button. You’ll see a list of places nearby. You can dive into a particular category, like Restaurants, or choose to see all local categories.

Find something you like? Save them all to your Favorites using the “Save” button. Now click “What’s nearby” to find a list of places within a particular distance range. Once you’ve saved a few local listings, go to your Favorites page (either from a local detail page, or from the home page). Select the ones you want, and you can see them all on a map, or send an email to friends with all the details.

So whether you are looking for that local coffee shop or pub Bing for Mobile can help you find what you are looking for and even map out your route.

Andy Chu – Bing for Mobile

Other posts of interest:

iPhone App Mania with Bing

Using your social network to search with your Bing for Mobile iPhone app

Shop with ease with your Bing for Mobile iPhone App

Bing on your mobile browser, iPhone, and beyond

Bing for iPhone Update

Since the launch of the Bing for Mobile iPhone app, we’ve heard some great feedback and are excited that Bing is showing up more and more as the search option for those using Safari on iOS4. We’re happy you are giving Bing a try and are enjoying some of the features like social, shopping, and the fresh homepage image every day.

Over the past few months the Bing team has been partnering with a number of companies on various apps for the iPhone. From finding what song was topping the charts when you graduated high school, to testing your movie trivia skills, to seeing what Ryan Seacrest’s favorite songs are – it’s all possible through various iPhone apps brought to you by Bing.

Take a look at some of the latest apps from Bing that you can find in the APP Store:

Top 100s by Year by Bing (music app in partnership with nuTsie)

For a limited time you are able to download this $1.99 app for Free from Bing. What were the top songs for 2009, the year you were born or graduated from high school?

Spin the wheel to find the year you want to hear. Click and listen. View the list to find the #1 song for that year, from 1947 – 2009.

These lists are not solely based on record sales or radio popularity at the time. Instead, there are lists of songs that have stood the test of time based on their initial and lasting popularity, and on their impact on the overall scope of music history.

Hip Hop 100 by Bing (music app in partnership with nuTsie)

You are able to enjoy this app for 60 days for free courtesy of Bing. After 60 days you can purchase the app for $.99.

Listen to the latest and hottest in Hip Hop. New Top Hip Hop 100 plays the full tracks of the Hip Hop songs of 2010.

With this application, the top Hip Hop songs are streamed directly to your iPhone/iTouch complete with the album art and song rank list. Get Artist information, lyrics, images, and videos brought to you by Bing.

Songs are streamed in shuffle mode like a web radio station through 3G, edge or Wi-Fi.

Pop 100 by Bing (music app in partnership with nuTsie)

You are able to enjoy this app for 60 days for free courtesy of Bing. After 60 days you can purchase the app for $.99.

Listen to the latest and hottest in Pop. New Top Pop 100 plays the full tracks of the top pop songs of 2010.

With this application, the top Pop Hop songs are streamed directly to your iPhone/iTouch complete with the album art and song rank list. Get Artist information, lyrics, images, and videos brought to you by Bing.

Songs are streamed in shuffle mode like a web radio station through 3G, edge or Wi-Fi.

Classical 100 by Bing (music app in partnership with nuTsie)

You are able to enjoy this app for 60 days for free courtesy of Bing. After 60 days you can purchase the app for $.99.

Listen to 100 full tracks of the most important and popular Classical works. Get more information about these works, the composers, the orchestras and symphonies, all brought to you by Bing.

This list has stood the test of time based on their lasting popularity and on their impact on the overall scope of musical history.

These Songs are streamed in shuffle mode like a web radio station through 3G, edge or Wi-Fi.

This is like a premium radio station that plays just the best of the best from the classical canon.

Ryan Seacrest’s Mixtapes by Bing (music app in partnership with nuTsie)

Listen to music, view photos, search videos, check out news, and connect with Ryan through Facebook, Twitter, and email. New playlists and exclusive content will be added weekly.

With this app, MixTapes are streamed directly to your iPhone complete with album art and song-rank list. Get artist information and lyrics all brought to you by Bing.

Songs are streamed in shuffle mode like a web radio station through 3G, edge or Wi-Fi.

You are able to enjoy this app for 60 days for free courtesy of Bing. After 60 days you can purchase the app for $1.99.

Chicktionary by Bing (game app in partnership with Blackdot Inc.)

This $1.99 app is being offered for free by Bing for a limited time.

300 new puzzles not found in the other Chicktionary versions.

Winner – Best word game app in the 2009 Best All Ever Awards Show!

NEW UPDATES MADE!

- 2 Modes of game play! Timed and untimed

- Don’t think that is a real word? Now you can get the definition of a word

- Now when you quit a game you can view the entire puzzle solution so you can see any words you missed

- For those who do not want to listen to music while they play, it now has a mute button

- Now with Facebook connect integration!

Get ready for an egg-citing game.

Chicktionary is one of the most popular word games on the internet and now you can hatch up some fun on your iPhone! Each hen bears a letter. The more words you create, the more points you earn!

Chicktionary has cool feature that gives it depth and makes it one of the more engaging games on the iPhone:

- In a jam? Shake your iPhone to shuffle the chickens and get a new look at your word options. No chickens were injured in the making of this game. So shake away!

- 300 Levels of word fun!

Earn Eggchievements for crazy stuff or just playing the game like a pro!

- Other features include save game, local & worldwide scoreboards, hidden Easter eggs, game statistics and more!

Check out the Too 12 Chicktionary Tips:

http://www.kewlbox.com/iPhone

Conde Nast Traveler Gold List (travel app in partnership with SJR)

Search, browse, share, and book the best hotels, resorts, and cruise lines around the globe as chosen by the world’s most trusted travelers the readers of Conde Nast Traveler. Powered by Bing Search.

Vanity Fair Trivia Movie Madness (trivia app in partnership with Vanity Fair)

You’ll need a quick brain, limber thumbs, and a good working knowledge of Hollywood lore to go deep into Vanity Fair’s new film-trivia game, Movie Madness. With hundreds of fun, sophisticated questions from Vanity Fair’s stable of film geeks, you may get one or two of these questions wrong – but by the time you’ve beat the 25 levels, you’ll be the veritable Roger Ebert.

ESPN World Cup Trivia by Bing (sports app in partnership with ESPN)

Did you follow ESPN’s exclusive coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup? Show off your knowledge of the world’s most popular sport with ESPN World Cup Trivia presented by Bing.

Whether you know the sport as soccer or football, start off in the Group Stages of the tournament and answer enough questions correctly to advance through each round. Score more point the quicker you answer. Be careful, questions get more difficult as you go through each stage of the tournament!

Play your way through the finals to become the World Cup Trivia Champion.

You can also find Bing integrated as the search provider in a few apps such as Whrrl, iTV and Flixster. We hope you enjoy all of these apps and maybe find that trip you were looking to take or that one pop song you just can’t get out of your head. Keep checking back as we continue to release fun new apps.

Kristin Meldahl – Bing

Other posts of interest:

Shop with ease with your Bing for Mobile iPhone App

Camera Scanning on the iPhone app

Bing on your mobile browser, iPhone, and beyond

Bing for iPhone Update

New Bing App for iPhone is Here!

Do you ever find yourself standing in front of the movie theater trying to figure out what movie to go to? Or how about you are in the car with friends looking for a place to eat. Wouldn’t it be helpful to hear what your friends are saying about a movie, restaurants or a product while you are on the go? As highlighted in the Bing For iPhone Update blog post there is a feature called Social search, where you can search through your Facebook and Twitter accounts on your phone and see combined status updates from your friends. If there is an instant answer available, we’ll show you that first, followed by social results.

Here is how to get social results:

• From the home page, click “Social”
• Then connect your accounts
• Now when you search for anything, relevant results and your friends’ social network mentions will also appear
• Finally if you find something you like using the app, you can easily share it with your network on Facebook, Twitter, or through email

This social feature comes in handy when you’re looking for movies or restaurants and want both information from the web and opinions from your social network. Now you can make that decision on the go that much easier.

Andy Chu – Bing for Mobile

Other posts of interest:

Camera Scanning on the iPhone app

Bing on your mobile browser, iPhone, and beyond

Bing for iPhone Update

New Bing App for iPhone is Here!

Have your kids ever asked you a question for a school paper or homework that you wish you knew? Have you given an answer that you “think” you remember from your days in school, knowing that the information you were about to give might be very outdated? Now, with the latest release of new Bing answers through our collaboration with Wolfram|Alpha, you can get access to more types of answers quickly and confidently.

For example, maybe your child is doing a report on France and they need to find the country’s GDP or the capital, go to Bing and type in “gdp of France” or “what is the capital of France” or how about those science homework questions that you think you know but you just need to make sure, like what is the boiling point of water? You can also use Bing to instantly compare geographical information, like comparing the current population in India to that of China or even how their literacy rates compare. Bing and Wolfram | Alpha make finding the answers to these common questions that much easier by proving this information to you right in the search results.

Another helpful new answer with this release is dates. I know on more than one occasion I am trying to plan my family schedule and need to know what date a holiday will fall on in the future. Now, you can type into the Bing search box a query like “When is Thanksgiving next year” or even just the word “Christmas” to get the actual day of the week that it will take place.

The next time you are confronted with the task of knowing or finding the answer to help with homework or even if you are just looking for the next time you need to cook the holiday dinner give Bing a try. The team is continuously adding new data and answers from Wolfram|Alpha to help get you the information you are looking for faster.

Kristin Meldahl - Bing

Natalia Burina – Bing

Other posts of interest:

In His Own Words: Stephen Wolfram on Computational Knowledge

How Many Calories in a Burger? What’s 2^2^2^2^2? Bing and Wolfram|Alpha Have the Answers

Today Starwood Hotels and Resorts unveiled a new integrated online experience for Sheraton guests featuring Bing. The new “Sheraton Guest Portal powered by Bing” will help you navigate your stay, get hotel information and discover information about the local area. This new system will be featured worldwide in the “Link@Sheraton^SM experienced with Microsoft®” in addition to in-room web access.

As part of the new online experience, you will find constantly updated information specific to each Sheraton location, such as local maps and the top search results for area restaurants, attractions, special events and services. It will be like having a personal concierge in the palm of your hand.

In addition to their new Link@Sheraton experience, the Sheraton Hotels has redesigned nearly 400 lobbies worldwide which includes a unique lobby lounge that allows travelers access to information and technology for work, leisure as well as social networking.

Now when you stay at a Sheraton you will be able to use Bing to make smarter, faster decisions whether you’re looking for a local cafe, printing your boarding pass, looking for the nearest entertainment, checking on the local weather, reading the top news stories or discovering more about your hotel, such as the restaurant hours and spa treatments.

We hope you enjoy your stay,

Kristin Meldahl – Bing

As mobile shopping gets more popular, we want to help you to find and shop products on your iPhone even more effortless. The new Bing for Mobile iPhone app includes a Shopping section where you can find products, see ratings, and read reviews. Search with your camera, your voice, or your keyboard to find brand-name products and compare prices. Not sure what to get for her birthday? No problem, we provide you with a list of product categories of the most popular items.

Here is how it works:

· On the home page of Bing, click Shopping to launch the feature.

· Tap through to a category of products, or search for a specific product using your voice or the keyboard.

· For more information about a product that is right in front of you, use the camera feature to scan the barcode of the product.

· You can then sort results by relevance, user rating, expert rating, or price.

· Click through for product details and a link to the merchant website.

As our mobile devices become more important to our every day lives, we hope that the Bing for Mobile iPhone app shopping features will help you make decisions on the go easier.

Keep on shopping…

Andy Chu – Bing for Mobile

Other posts of interest:

Camera Scanning on the iPhone app

Bing on your mobile browser, iPhone, and beyond

Bing for iPhone Update

Are the class lists up yet? Are you starting to look into what school supplies are on your list this year? Well if you are like many of the families right now your kids have started to get the itch to get their school stuff in order. Bing is here to help. Go to Bing shopping to get some of this season’s best deal on supplies, clothes, shoes, gadgets, backpacks and more. With Bing shopping you are able to refine your search by product, price and reviews. For all the latest updates to Bing shopping check out Sonam’s blog post Summer of Shopping.

Back to School can also mean changes to your routine or maybe even a move for those with kids going off to college. Will you be driving a college freshman to their new dorm? Or maybe you have a young one going into their first year of high school? Use Bing Maps to plan your route and even map out where the coffee shop is along the way.

If you don’t have kids heading off to school, you can still take part in the back to school excitement by helping classrooms across the country get ready for the new school year. By setting your search default to Bing we will give you a three dollar donation code to fund a classroom project of your choice through donorschoose.org. For all the details read our blog post You choose, Bing gives!.

Kristin Meldahl – Bing

Other posts of interest:

You choose, Bing gives!

Summer of Shopping

With the latest version of Messenger, you can now bring Bing into your conversations in a few exciting new ways.

The first way you will be able to do this is through contextual linking. When a term is recognized, a green dashed line appears under that term. When you click on that word, you are given links from Bing to websites, photos, and videos which you can add to your conversation.

Some of the categories of content that Messenger and Bing recognize include:

· Brands

· Bands and Singers

· Places

· Famous Movies

· Famous people

The other way is to use the information from Bing as a search and share experience. You are able to add content that is indexed and searched by Bing directly into your conversation. Let’s say you want to share a video with a friend you are having a conversation with over IM, below are the steps to embed the video:

· From the IM toolbar you select: Share video from Bing.

· Enter your search term in the Bing search box

· Click the magnifying glass

· Pick the video you want to share

Now you can share information from Bing right inside your Messenger conversation. You can download the Messenger Beta for Windows 7 and Windows Vista here. So, give it a try and let us know what you think.

For more information on this and some of the other new Windows Live Messenger features make sure to check out their team blog post.

Kristin Meldahl - Bing

Last month, we had the pleasure of announcing that, in conjunction with Apple, Bing would be included as one of the search engine choices within Safari.

Today, we’d like to introduce our first extension for Safari: Bing Highlights.

Bing Highlights brings intelligent, contextually sensitive information to the web pages you’re reading. Using it is easy: just highlight text on a web page. Bing Highlights will recognize interesting information (or “entities” in information science-speak) and offer you some smart choices.

For example, here’s what may happen if you highlight a U.S. formatted address:

You can interact with the map in the pane, and get driving directions.

If you highlight some text in a foreign language, you can get translations. You can even hear the text spoken by clicking on the icons.

You can also get up-to-date flight status information by highlighting a flight number:

And, of course, you can easily get search results from Bing for any text that you select. This extension helps bring the power of Bing one step closer to your fingertips.

Click to download Bing Highlights from Apple’s Safari Extension Gallery. It works with Safari 5.0.1 or newer, for both Mac and PC.

Creating this extension was fun, and we are excited to continue working closely with Apple in bringing visually compelling Bing experiences to Safari.

On behalf of the entire Bing Highlights team, I hope you enjoy our product!

Dennis Cheung – Bing, Senior Program Manager Lead