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Microsoft's Bing Search Service Goes Mobile

Jun 2, 2009, 12:05 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Microsoft has quietly launched a mobile version of its new Bing search service. Bing for mobile phones is accessible directly from a phone's web browser. The search engine has built-in shortcuts to things such as directions, maps, weather and movies, as well as the ability to set user location to help deliver locally relevant results. Bing is free to use.

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soydeedo

Jun 3, 2009, 1:58 AM

Wrong language

The site comes up in French for me when I visit with my phone. It's English on my computer and their help section is pretty sparse. I wonder if there's a way to fix it...

Hooyah

Jun 2, 2009, 12:19 PM

So, the difference between this and Live search is...

...what?

bluecoyote

Microsoft is trying to reposition itself from the Playsforsure of search engines to the Zune of search engines 🤣

Protege

if you perhaps tried it, you'd know... 🙄 🙄 🙄

Look at the left pane when you search...

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