At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, Microsoft showed how Bing can let you play games in search, IM people in Windows or Facebook a the same time, plan air travel, even choose and watch television or listen to music.
"Darling, I can hear Bing (Crosby) singing over the loudspeaker, " wrote Lloyd on July 6, 1944.
This partnership can provide Bing with an advantage over Google if the feature is well received by users and leads to greater use of Bing at the expense of Google.
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Bing is another powerful tool Microsoft can juice.
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Facebook's search engine is Microsoft's Bing, but users of that site can't subscribe to updates in this way.
You can also change your search provider to Bing, if you're in the mood for something different.
Further still, you can use Kinect as a search tool via Bing.
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With Bing on Xbox and Kinect for Xbox 360, you can effortlessly find the games, movies, TV shows, sports and music you want.
What they created was a platform where someone can go, place ads across Google, Yahoo and Bing, and then get a simple letter grade to see how well their ads are doing.
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That means Facebook can leverage it for real-time search, and can also syndicate it to other places, like Google and Bing.
"While we're improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app, " he added.
Participants receive a CD of their performance, "so they can go home with a dream memory of the song they made, " Mr. Bing said.
You can't back out of an email, calendar appointment, Evernote note, or a Bing Finance post with that key, for example.
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From there, you can add a note, look up words in The New Oxford American Dictionary, translate through Bing translation or share passages on Facebook or Twitter.
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