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A Bing boycott? Why not boycott China?

Yesterday in a blog post, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called for a boycott of Bing, because of the way it handles Chinese characters searches outside of China when searching for politically sensitive (to China) material. Today in a blog post on the Search Blog, Adam Sohn responds, ...

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Bing Maps China updated

Bing Maps China has updated their site with tons of new data and some new features: Yellow Pages – Over 8 million yellow page listings are now searching from Bing Maps China. Business Photos – Hundreds of thousands of business front photos are now available as a part of our Y...

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Windows Live Essentials & Services Book

For everyone who wants to get the most out of Windows Live: The Windows Live Essentials and Services Book. This book by MVP Brad Jones and Marcus Schmidt is a full-color, step-by-step guide for using Microsoft's new Windows Live Essentials series of free applications. Step-by-step instruction...

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Bing begins showing “latest posts”

One sure fire way to get a new feature noticed is to attach it to TechCrunch, and indeed TC noticed a new Bing feature yesterday that appears on Bing search results for “TechCrunch”: The “Latest posts” feature only appears for certain websites (TechCrunch, New Yor...

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New from Live Labs: Pivot

I got called a namedropper on Twitter today for my earlier Day 1 post, but really we think of our readers as being the reason we’re here, and it’s because of you that we’re able to get to do this cool stuff. We’ll have a bit more later on the PDC in general, but at the r...

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PDC 2009: Day 2 announcements

Now the liveblogging is over, let’s take a look at what was announced today. Silverlight A whole lot was said about Microsoft Silverlight, going through some features of Silverlight 3 but most of all of Silverlight 4! Yes, today at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the ava...

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