As part of the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance, from August 3, Yahoo! search results in Europe will be powered by Bing. Yahoo! will be migrating organic search results for its European properties to the Bing search index.

Microsoft today launched a new state-of-the-art research & development facility in Bangalore, India. Dr Qi Lu, President, Online Services Division, Microsoft inaugurated Vigyan, the swank new 154,000 sq. ft. facility is situated in the heart of the city.

Bing team at Microsoft released a slick Bing for iPad app in April 2011 as the first official iPad app from Microsoft. The app has been very well received. The v1.1 of the app released today introduces a new feature called Lasso.

The Xbox 360 update introduced at E3, 2011 includes several new capabilities including a new interface, Bing integration, voice control, YouTube and Microsoft’s upcoming subscription based local TV service.

Google’s executive Charmian, Eric Schmidt revealed that Google’s offer to partner with the social networking giant, Facebook ,was rejected despite several tries. Schmidt spoke at the D9 conference that if the deal was on, Google search could have been improvised for better searching experience with access to Facebook’s data.

The default search provided in browsers is affecting search market shares more than ever and this rise in Bing is acclaimed to this very fact.

Team at Microsoft’s bing posted a tweet hours ago that was perceived negatively by a lot of people. Realizing the unintentional insensitivity of the message, Bing team has apologized for the tweet.

Microsoft just added H.264 codec support to Google Chrome by releasing the Windows Media Player plugin for Google Chrome. Microsoft and Google have been fighting over search results and now video codec for browsers.

Bing Maps will be powering Hyundai’s cars with their Blue Line technology and Toyota Entune will use Bing for search in their cars.

Microsoft is looking to hire User Experience designers for Bing who specialize in animations.

Looks like Bing is fooling people with their organic search results by promoting Wikileaks.ch as the top search term for Wikileaks without any reason.

Twitter Directory is about Who to Follow and connecting with people. Twitter has also tied up with services such as LinkedIn, WeFollow and Bing to allow you to find more people.

Get your Bing wallpapers automatically with this Windows 7 theme. There are also ways to do the same thing if you are using Windows XP or Vista.

US users can now connect their Facebook accounts to Bing for tailored results.

Facebook and Microsoft’s Bing have announced a deeper integration with each other where users will now be able to see what your Facebook friends are liking in Bing’s search results.