In February our friends from the Windows Live team announced plans to pilot a new feature unique to Hotmail called quick add. Today, we’re happy to announce that Bing – Microsoft’s new decision engine – will power Windows Live Hotmail quick add, allowing you to “Bing and Decide” from the comfort of your inbox.*
Hotmail’s quick add feature, now enhanced with Bing helps you easily search, find, and insert restaurant reviews, movie times, images, videos, maps and more straight into your e-mail messages.
Give it a try:
(1) Click New to create a new e-mail message.
(2) Select a category from the Quick add pane on the right.
(3) Type what you want to find in the Bing search box.
(4) Click Insert on the Bing search result that you’d like to add to your message
Check out the Windows Live team blog for more details and be sure to try it out yourself at Windows Live Hotmail and let us know how you like it.
Melissa Powell, Senior Product Manager, Bing
* Currently available in select languages and geographies (Australia, Canada, China, India, US, and UK)
Integrating Bing into Hotmail is an ideal thing to do. Apart from offering ease of use for Hotmail users, it will also help to create awareness and branding for Bing.
Bing to Hotmail that's a great news!Hurrah!
glad to see bing to hotmail, brilliant news!
Great news!
I dig this quick ad I can target relative material to my contacts .. movie clips .. how to vids ..business locations .. images of relvelance .. i like sending tailored videos to my friends ..
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NIce to see Bing being integrated to Windows Live Hotmail. Bing is the best thing that ever happened to search. Keep the good work up, you Bingomaniacs!!
Very Nice :)
Nice info :))
I already tried this option and it looks great!
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this is great news from bing
I like bing in hotmail. But i want more windows live + Bing in other services as wel so that user search on bing for their windows live stuffs
This is very practical.
