Microsoft Updates Bing App for iPhone
The first version of Bing app search for iPhone, released in Dec 09, has attracted more than 1 million users. Yesterday, day, Microsoft released its first update. In this release. Microsoft provides stability fixes and usability tweaks, especially in image search, and design updates have made options and dialog boxes easier to use.
From Bing blog:
New features
Bookmarks and improved web browsing: you can now bookmark maps, directions, web sites, businesses, search terms, even the weather report, and get to the bookmarks right from the Bing home page.
Sharing: you can share interesting results with your friends using e-mail.
Copy and paste URLs: you told us and we listened! We now support copying and pasting URLs.
Parental control on search settings: we helped make search safer by letting you set a SafeSearch level and create a passcode so it can’t be changed. This is a benefit for parents who want to make sure the kids are only going to safe sites on their devices.
Search history and private search: you can now view and edit your search history. You can also search the web without saving your history on the device using private search.
Explicit location setting: let your iPhone find you or set a specific location so you can search near there (super useful when you’re going to travel to another city and want to find things around there).
Tighter integration of contacts in directions: Bing now autosuggests contacts from your address book when you enter start and end locations in directions.
Support for 1st generation iPod touch devices: we now support all versions of iPod touch.
[Photos credit Microsoft]
You can get it for free from the App Store on your device or use iTunes to download it.
It’s rare that I compliment Microsoft on anything since I’m a Google guy, but their bookmark feature is nice. That’s something that the Google iPhone App does not have. However, since the Google iPhone App allows me to access all of my Google Apps like gmail, calendar, docs, buzz, tasks, and reader, it gets the nod.