Bing Removes UK Beta label:
Microsoft has removed the beta tag from the UK version. The daily Bing Homepage image and hotspots are something that now will be localized in the UK, with unique imagery and hotspots. Another element being more localized is real-time results with Bing Twitter search.
There is now an integrated shopping experience with Ciao UK. With Bing you can search the Internet to find the best prices, reviews and local availability. Visual search results and metadata will make search more visual and more compelling. More Instant Answers will be given to UK users. Such as how is Liverpool doing in the Premiership, or which tourist attraction should I see this weekend?
Bing’s New Search Engine Bot:
The Bing.com search engine made some big steps this week in regards to their future. On the November 4th Bing announced the new bot, named MSNbot 2.0b. Bing inherited MSNBot 1.1 from Live Search, which according to sources says that it will not last until the end of the year.
Rick Dejarnette, of Bing Webmaster Center revealed; “we have made numerous improvements in its performance, addressed some webmaster concerns, and published detailed information on how to control the bot with a robots.txt file. Today we are announcing that the new bot is fully operational. This development will enable Bing to do a better job at gathering the information we need from the myriad of websites we index worldwide”.