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Windows Live Essential 2011 is already on the floor consisting of so many products as a package with it. There is a contest is going on from Bing and Windows Live in order to highlight Windows Live Photo Gallery using which we can easily connect share, edit or organize the Photos of our choice. 

Participants of the contest have to follow some rules and send some creative photos related to cloud and the lucky winner's photo will be featured on Bing Homepage on November 8th, 2010 and also opportunity for 10 winners selected in the Windows 7 theme pack. Just mail by Friday October 22nd, 2010 to WLcontest@hotmail.com. You can read the complete guidelines and contest rules here before going to submit the photos.

Afte a great success and positive response of the first homepage photo contest now BIng is coming with its next iteration. ing is again back with the second Bing's Home Sweet Homepage photo contest. There were more that 10,000 entries andupwards of half a million votes.

The winner was Jeremy Somers of Australia and was recently featured in a national television campaign in the United States.

The theme of this contest is “hometown pride.” ONly you have to take photos that demonstrate the beauty of the places you live in and call home. Bing homepage simply inspire a sense of exploration and delight through a single stunning image that draws you in to the search adventure.

Details of the contest can be found on Bing Facebook page and we will announce the winner on December 21, with the winning photo appearing on the homepage on January 6, 2010.

So this time waiting for some more excited and interesting homepage of your own home town.

Bing cashback Sweepstakes is providing a chance to win L.A. bling. Simply you have to enter the $10k in L.A and then Bing cashback Sweepstakes, for a chance to win L.A. bling. Bing cashback wants to help you do L.A. in style—with $10,000 in your pocket and a Hollywood makeover on the itinerary. We’ll even throw in the round-trip flight, hotel and serious E! studio time with Ryan Seacrest!

Prizes to win:

1-FIRST PRIZE (one lucky Bing Cashbacker)

$1,000 eBay Gift Card

1-SECOND PRIZE (one lucky Bing Cashbacker)

$500 eBay Gift Card

GRAND PRIZE - $10,000 and an L.A. Getaway

4-day/3-night trip for two (2) to Los Angeles, featuring:

$10,000 cash – yours to keep or spend like a shopping star

Round-trip coach air transportation for two (2) from a major airport near winner’s home to Los Angeles, CA

Three (3) nights hotel accommodations at

Attend a broadcast of Ryan Seacrest’s radio show and an E! News television filming

Mid-size rental car

A Hollywood makeover

Process to follow to win and how this works

Search: Use Bing Search to have shopping and then click on cashback listing, find great deals on those purchased software.Click a cashback listing and find great deals on the product you chose. Your results list the cashback savings you'll receive off the store price and your bottomline price, too.

Microsoft and Yahoo! finally came to a deal worldwide for moving together in Web field. Microsoft is going to empower the Yahoo! search while relationship sales force will be the Yahoo!for both companies' premium search advertisers. This will improve the Web search experience for both users as well as advertisers. Under this agreement Microsoft will provide its competitve search platform and Yahoo! will focus on providing great exepriences with the world's favorite online destinations and web products to the consumers.



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’s Bing will be the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo! sites. Yahoo! will continue to use its technology and data in other areas of its business such as enhancing display advertising technology.
• Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Self-serve advertising for both companies will be fulfilled by Microsoft’s AdCenter platform, and prices for all search ads will continue to be set by AdCenter’s automated auction process.
• Each company will maintain its own separate display advertising business and sales force.
• Yahoo! will innovate and “own” the user experience on Yahoo! properties, including the user experience for search, even though it will be powered by Microsoft technology.
• Microsoft will compensate Yahoo! through a revenue sharing agreement on traffic generated on Yahoo!’s network of both owned and operated (O&O) and affiliate sites.
• Microsoft will pay traffic acquisition costs (TAC) to Yahoo! at an initial rate of 88% of search revenue generated on Yahoo!’s O&O sites during the first 5 years of the agreement.
• Yahoo! will continue to syndicate its existing search affiliate partnerships.
• Microsoft will guarantee Yahoo!’s O&O revenue per search (RPS) in each country for the first 18 months following initial implementation in that country.
• At full implementation (expected to occur within 24 months following regulatory approval), Yahoo! estimates, based on current levels of revenue and current operating expenses, that this agreement will provide a benefit to annual GAAP operating income of approximately $500 million and capital expenditure savings of approximately $200 million. Yahoo! also estimates that this agreement will provide a benefit to annual operating cash flow of approximately $275 million.
• The agreement protects consumer privacy by limiting the data shared between the companies to the minimum necessary to operate and improve the combined search platform, and restricts the use of search data shared between the companies. The agreement maintains the industry-leading privacy practices that each company follows today.

Both companies are now together to give us the World's best experience of the Web Search. We can get joint efforts of both on their offical joint website with tagline as

Real Choice.Better Value.More Innovation.

The joint website is http://www.choicevalueinnovation.com/.
On the deal video can be get directly from link given from Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz: wmv, mp4 and from Microsoft CEO Stee Ballmer: wmv, mp4.

As the Bing is launched Google started begging by displaying Advertisements on Times of India. I daily came across of such ads where Google asks users to Google if they want to buy cheap air tickets or cheap fares for travel etc.
Here is a screenshot of such an add.

You probably didn't wake up today expecting an entirely new search experience.
But — Bing! — here it is.
So, why a new search engine? Why the new name? Why now?
Well, because even though search is a pretty amazing thing, the current state of search engines has some equally amazing statistics.
So far in 2009, there are four and a half websites created EVERY SECOND as the web continues to expand. While more searchable information is cool, nearly half of all searches don’t result in the answer that people are seeking.

At the same time, the way the world searches is changing. You want more than just information. You want knowledge that leads to action.
The truth is you've evolved. It's time search caught up.
So we had an idea. Start over. And we did.
We took a new approach to go beyond search to build what we call a decision engine. With a powerful set of intuitive tools on top of a world class search service, Bing will help you make smarter, faster decisions. We included features that deliver the best results, presented in a more organized way to simplify key tasks and help you make important decisions faster.

And features like cashback, where we actually give you money back on great products, and Price Predictor, which actually tells you when to buy an airline ticket in order to help get you the best price — help you make smarter decisions, and put money back in your pocket.

We sincerely hope that the next time you need to make an important decision, you'll Bing and decide.

Thank you,
Bing Team, Microsoft

Visit here to see Why Bing.

Bing Maps 3D ~ Add realistic 3D capabilities to your online Bing Maps.

Bing Maps 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world. This enables you to more effectively find the data that is relevant to you, making Bing Maps more useful than ever. Even better -- it's just plain fun!

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista; Windows XP
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Windows Internet Explorer 7 or later, or Firefox 2.0 or later
250 MB or more hard disk space
A 1 GHz processor (2.8 GHz or faster recommended)
256 MB of system memory (1 GB recommended)
32 MB video card (256 MB recommended) that supports Microsoft DirectX 9
A high speed or broadband Internet connection

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Bing Tones ~Three Bing-branded ringtones for your mobile device

Bing isn't just a search engine, it's a decision engine. Download these Bing-branded ringtones to your mobile device, then make www.bing.com your new default search engine today.

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Mobile 5.0; Windows Mobile 6; Windows Mobile 6.1
A mobile device that can play MP3 files

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Bing,The new service, located at http://www.Bing.com, which was going to begin to roll out over the coming days worldwide on Wednesday, June 3 is now live in beta phase.
Microsoft unveiled Bing on 28 May'09, a new Decision Engine and consumer brand, providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster, more informed decisions and today it is live.



Result with search term "Windows"



Visit: Bing

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Bing, a new Decision Engine and consumer brand, providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster, more informed decisions. Bing is specifically designed to build on the benefits of today’s search engines but begins to move beyond this experience with a new approach to user experience and intuitive tools to help customers make better decisions, focusing initially on four key vertical areas: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business.
The result of this new approach is an important beginning for a new and more powerful kind of search service, which Microsoft is calling a Decision Engine, designed to empower people to gain insight and knowledge from the Web, moving more quickly to important decisions. The new service, located at http://www.Bing.com, will begin to roll out over the coming days and will be fully deployed worldwide on Wednesday, June 3.


Microsoft identified three design goals to guide the development of Bing: deliver great results; deliver a more organized experience; and simplify tasks and provide insight, leading to faster, more confident decisions. The new service, built to go beyond today’s search experience, includes deep innovation on core search areas including entity extraction and expansion, query intent recognition and document summarization technology as well as a new user experience model that dynamically adapts to the type of query to provide relevant and intuitive decision-making tools.
The new brand portfolio will include the following changes to existing Microsoft programs:

Source: Microsoft Press