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 Justin Kraemer, winner of the Bing Home Sweet Homepage Photo contest

In addition to the grand prize winner seeing their photo on Bing.com, we’ve pulled together some great prizes for both students and their schools. Winners across the four age groups (ages 5-10, 11-13, 14-17 and 18+) will win a trip for two to the Microsoft Campus to take part in a Bing editorial team meeting where we pick images for future homepages. Additionally, each winner will receive equipment from HP and Canon to help build digital photo resources at their school. Prizes for individual winners and their schools across the four age groups will total over $70,000.

· 1^st place prizes: Individuals receive an HP Pavilion desktop and monitor and a “Digital Photo Lab” for their school.

· 2^nd place prizes: Individuals receive an HP Pavilion desktop and monitor and a “Digital Photo Kit” for their school.

· 3^rd place prizes: Individuals receive an HP Pavilion desktop and monitor and a “Digital Photo Starter Set” for their school.

And here’s the “everyone wins” part. There’s a great opportunity to help other classrooms in need during the voting stage from April 13th to the 19^th. Bing will give a $5.00 GivingCard for DonorsChoose.org to the first 20,000 people who vote each day. Voters can then decide what classroom projects (like math, science, art, reading) will benefit from Bing’s donation. If you do the math, we’re talking up to $100,000 a day to help schools across the country. Each day you can return to the site to cast another vote and have an opportunity to pick up another GivingCard.

Bing helps students explore the world with our rich homepage imagery every day, so we’re excited to see what the country’s students think we might all want to discover.

To find out more about the contest, including the submission and voting process and prizes for the finalists, visit http://earthdayphotocontest.com/. Teachers will be able to order free posters for their classrooms in the coming days, as well as take advantage of other contest resources on the site.

Liz Tassey Gerber, Bing

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• Google Buys Online Collaboration Operator DocVerse

  Something good is about to happen with Google’s cloud computing service – that is interoperability with Microsoft Office files (SE Journal March 3 2010)

• The five-minute guide to Google Squared

  Arrange data from the web in a neat spreadsheet (techradar March 6 2010)

• Google Launches Gesture Search for Android

  To use the search, you write a letter across the screen. (SE Watch March 5 2010)

• Google Kills SearchWiki, Replaces It With Starred Results

  The ability to re-order, remove, and comment on search results has been replaced by a scaled-down version (SE Land March 3 1010)

• SMX West 2010 Live Blogging Recap

  Keri Morgret of Strike Models and Brian Ussery of Beu Blog spent a tremendous amount of time and energy live blogging the event. (March 5 2010)

• Bing & Yahoo Soon To Support Canonical Tag

  At SMX West on Thursday, reps from both search engines said they’re in the process of supporting rel=canonical right now. (SE Land March 5 2010)

• YouTube adds automatic subtitles for the deaf

  Latest speech recognition breakthrough for the hard of hearing (techradar march 5 2010)

• Peter Norvig offers an insider’s look at Google Research during SMX West

  A list of new products from Google (SE Watch March 3 2010)

• Google’s Norvig: PageRank Is Overhyped

  Speaking at SMX WestGoogle’s Director of Research said that PageRank is overhyped and probably needs a new name (SE Land March 3 2010)

• Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live

  The documentation is live on Google Code (SE Land March 3 2010)

• Yahoo CEO Bartz Says Would Have Sold Yahoo, Mocks Facebook

  Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz stated she would have sold Yahoo at $36 when Microsoft was offering (SE Watch March 2 2010)

• Google Italy ruling might very well turn out to be a blessing

  Its time to finally get the law straightened out. Laws in almost every country in the world are outdated. (State of Search March 2 2010)

• How to Check If Google China Still Self-Censors

  On January 12th, Google said they are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn (Blogoscoped March 2 2010)

• Topeka Changes Its Name To Google, Kansas (Temporarily)

  What would you do to get Google to build a super high-speed broadband network in your hometown? (SE Land March 2 2010)

• Google to Yahoo: Excuse Us While We Buy Your Photo Editor

  Picnik is, among other things, the default editor for Yahoo’s Flickr. (BoomTown March 1 2010)

• Google has acquired Picnik, photo editor in the cloud

  Using Picnik, you can crop, do touch-ups and add cool effects to your photos, all without leaving your web browser. (Google Blog March 1 2010)

• Google Maps Integrates Flickr Photos

  Geo-tagged, user-submitted Flickr photos as well as other location-specific photos from Google’s own Picasa (Marketing Pilgrim March 1 2010)

• AT&T Ditches Google For Yahoo Search on Motorola Backflip

  It’ll be the first Android device of any kind with Yahoo as the main search engine (Gizmodo March 2 2010)

• Bing Autosuggest – History Repeats Itself – and That is a Good Thing

  Bing adds support for query history in Autosuggest (Bing Community March 1 2010)

• Ballmer Sees Innovation as the Key To Search Success

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he thinks the deal with Yahoo will greatly improve the relevance of advertising placed next to search results (Newsfactor March 5 2010)

• Click here to find out more! Real-time search startups blow away Google, Yahoo, and Bing at SMX West

  I don’t agree that Google has crushed real-time search for startups. (Venture Beat March 5 2010)

• Bing blocks online sex searches in Middle East: study

  The Open Net Initiative (ONI) on Friday said Microsoft’s search engine Bing is more prudish than government censors (AFP March 5 2010)

• China to punish hackers, says no Google complaint

  China has pledged to punish hackers who attacked Google if there is evidence to prove it (Reuters March 6 2010)

SMX West: March 2-4
Go to California!

As we have done in years past we are offering up instant answers in order to make it easier to navigate all the important information you might need to know about the show. Currently, you can get the Academy Award instant answer for the show itself, which includes information on the show, nominees and links to images and past show information. For those of you that miss the festivities, there will be a post-show instant answer with links to images and videos so be sure and check back for a quick look at the winners and other highlights from the show.

With ten nominees for best picture, I have a lot of catching up to do before Sunday. So while researching the picks, I found a few places very helpful. The first is www.bing.com/twitter where you can see all of the chatter on twitter that has to do with the Academy Awards, nominees, and the event parties. It is pretty interesting to see feedback and opinions about the show from people around the country in real time. The second is the Oscar Winning Actors Visual Search gallery. In this gallery, you can find information about who won in 2009 and who won the most awards overall. You should also visit MSN Award Buzz which pulls information from blogs, twitter and forums to create a fun graphic on each nominee and predicts the winner of each category based on public buzz. It is a must for those Oscar enthusiasts! Check out the MSN blog for all the details.

Since Stefan is off rubbing elbows in L.A. with the Hollywood elite for the Oscars and I am left here again to fend for myself, there will be no video or Fridays With Stefan. But we’ll still have Free T-shirt Friday and the theme for this week is “The Academy Awards” and all things related. To mix it up a little we want the entries to be RT’s (retweets) that you find on www.bing.com/twitter that have to do with the Academy Awards, add in your own commentary and tweet us at @bing make sure to include @bing and  #FTF. We will be looking at all of the entries at the beginning of next week so tweet us all weekend and through the show.

Have a great weekend and Stefan I hope you are having a GREAT time in La La land!

Kristin Meldahl – Bing

Earlier this week, we began an advertising pilot with Zynga, the folks who brought you Farmville.  For a short time, we invited some people who were playing Farmville to join Bing’s Facebook community by becoming a fan of Bing.  We also encouraged them to tell their friends about it.  In exchange, we provided some farm dollars, which is the virtual currency used to buy things to build and maintain a farm.  Here is what the ad looked like, once a Farmville user clicked on it:

In a 24 hour promotion, we added 400,000 new fans to http://www.facebook.com/bing.  We were amazed by the response (and by how fast it went viral).  But we always have room for more folks in the Bing community, so stop on by and join the fun.

We are excited to have the opportunity to work with Zynga on this advertising promotion, as an interesting way of getting more people to experience Bing’s unique ability to help make decisions, whether in Farmville or outside in the real world.  We look forward to engaging more deeply with these users and helping them learn more about Bing.

Liz Tassey Gerber - Bing

If you have an iPhone, you have probably already seen our Top 5 iPhone search apps article. But whether you are surfing the web from a regular cell phone, a smart phone or a web enebled PDA, searching is bound to be important to you. The five tools presented here, work on all platforms. The winners are:

Google Mobile

It starts out a bit confusing: When you first come to Google Mobile, you find no search box. Instead, Google pushes apps and a huge number of services. Click “Web” for web search.

Once you are in the right place, though, the rest is easy. You are spared the trouble of typing more than strictly necessary, as Google suggests search terms as you type. The search results are easy to scan and it is no hard to get an overview of your field of interest.

The search results are based on the principle of universal search: You get images, news, maps and more, depending on your query.

It is easy to set your location by your phone’s GPS. And Google’s local search is the only one that offered no problems in that respect. It finds relevant local businesses even here in Norway and phone number and link to directions are displayed for each business.

News search (along with images and buzz) is available via a link on the front page. I get local news by default (e.g. news about the Chile earth quake in Norwegian).

If you want to search Buzz, be aware that if you disclose your location, this information will be available to the whole world.

Google also offers speech search: No typing is involved at all, you simply say your query. This works in English, but not in, say, French or Norwegian. In English, it works like a charm, though, even for complex queries.

Taptu

Taptu is not as advanced as Google, but in most cases, it will provide just what you need. This is a service that is tailored specifically for touch screens and it does a great job at simplifying web search on touch phones.

The front page conveniently offers links to hot search terms. There are also quick links to images and buzz search.

The results are easy to access. Along with regular web pages, they include images,videos, news, blogs and more, depending on query. And in stead of clicking through to the web site and wait for it to load, only to discover it was not what you were looking for, you can choose a preview which loads quickly and includes a thumbnail of the web site as well as an excerpt from the content.

The search results also include links to “the touch friendly web”, web sites that fit your query and are optimized for small screens. What a great idea!

On the downside, Taptu offers no local options, and there are a couple of quite prominent Google ads in the search results — but this is still a great product.

Yahoo! Mobile

Yahoo! Mobile offers much of the tools Google Mobile does (there is no speech search, though). In addition, there is a list of hot topics on the front page and easy access to turn on and off safe search.

You get search suggestons as you type. At the bottom of the web search result, you get links to other relevant hits in categories like news, images and answers.

It is easy to set your location by GPS and Yahoo will suggests restaurants, movie theatres and more. I couldn’t test this, though, because it doesn’t work in Norway.

Bing Mobile

Bing Mobile has a smart design which makes searching easy: There are quick links to directions, maps, weather and movies on the front page. The search results are not universal (like Google and Taptu), but tabs provide easy access to results in the categories videos, images and news.

You can set your location, but not by GPS. Bing doesn’t attempt to find local businesses in Oslo.
A handy tool lets me save several locations (home, work, other) which I can toggle between.

Ask Mobile

I am generally a big fan of Ask, but Ask Mobile is not too impressive. The front page has convenient quick links to web, images, news, local and maps & directions. The search results are easy to navigate. Ask presents universal search results, but in strange categories. My search for pizza retrieved results in these categories: news, images, questions, ringtones (!). Pizza ringtones?

There is a local search option which might be excellent, but it doesn’t work in Norway.

Padia Powersearch has links more mobile search sites.

photo credit: Dushaun

SMX West: March 2-4
Go to California!

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