It’s been an exciting week for us here at Bing.
On Monday, Windows Phone 7 hit US store shelves giving people access to Bing for Mobile out of the box. And for you Verizon Wireless customers, with the release of the Samsung Continuum and the Motorola Citrus, we are happy to announce the Bing for Mobile Android App will come preinstalled.
Since the launch of the Bing for Mobile Android App in the Verizon Wireless Android Market, many of you asked when the Bing App will be available from your own operators. We are pleased to announce that we have just released the Bing App to all major U.S. mobile operators through Android Markets. As we highlighted in August, Android users can find the Bing image of the day with clickable hotspots, image search, news, local business listings and reviews, instant answers for movies, flights movies, and more.
Just search the Market for “Bing”, download, and you have access to Bing Maps, Bing Widget and the Bing app directly from your Android device.
- Andy Chu, Bing for Mobile
Other posts of interest:
· Bing for Mobile comes to your Verizon Android
· iPhone App Mania with Bing
· Using your social network to search with your Bing for Mobile iPhone app
· Shop with ease with your Bing for Mobile iPhone App
· Bing on your mobile browser, iPhone, and beyond
· Bing for iPhone Update
I'm sure you've all heard of Google's Instant Preview that allows users to take a look at a web page without actually visiting it. Bing has something similar, but instead of showing an entire web page it shows just the text from that search result.
Frankly, both approaches have their merit. So why cannot Bing offer both: have two icons: one for an entire web page preview shot and one for just the text. That way, let the user decide whether they want web page previews or text-based ones. Furthermore allow people in their user accounts to specify which one is the default.
Bing needs to innovate more. Google comes out with tweaks and innovations to its search and its other programs on a weekly basis. Every week there something new that improves some Google product. Look at Google Chrome: it is already on version 8 or so. IE9 just came out after a decade or more of being on the market.
Its nice to know that competing companies can support each other's platforms, this guarantees consumer choice!
I'm all for options, but it's a pretty low blow when some of the newer Android phones (on Verizon anyway) come with Bing pre-installed with no option to change it back to Google.
Luckily, for me, I have a little older Android phone (HTC Droid Incredible) so Bing isn't forced on me. Having said that, I do have Bing installed, but if I didn't have an option I would be doing everything in my power (rooting my phone) to uninstall Bing and add Google.
I honestly can't see Microsoft ever allowing Google to be a default search provider on their new WP7 (Windows Phone 7) phones.
Just let that be a friendly word of advice. People don't like things forced on them (brings back memories of the 360's NXE and avatars), but if given the option, a lot of people will try your product.
As GirlyGirl said, Bing does have some neat features, but Google is always one step ahead of the game.
i think every smart phone right now has an application for major search engines.
