Воспользоваться функциями можно будет также в браузере Edge.
- Microsoft показала обновлённый поисковик на закрытом новостном офлайн-мероприятии, которое провела в штаб-квартире в Редмонде. Это «новый Bing», который поддерживает 100 языков и работает с языковой моделью нового поколения. GPT-4 это или нет — не уточнили ни Microsoft, ни сооснователь OpenAI Сэм Альтман.
- Компания улучшила основной поисковый алгоритм, подключив к нему ИИ-модель: это позволит повысить релевантность и свежесть ответов в выдаче, а также выдать пользователю сразу несколько подходящих подсказок с ссылками на источники. Классическая выдача будет слева, подсказки бота — справа.
- В поисковую строку можно будет ввести до 1000 символов, а сами запросы при этом могут быть предметными: например, «поместится ли диван типа Loveseat из Ikea в минивэн».
- Из выдачи можно перейти в интерфейс чат-бота, похожего на ChatGPT, как отмечают журналисты The Verge. В качестве примера Microsoft попросила его «составить туристическую программу на пять дней в Мехико для семейной поездки», а затем «коротко пересказать её, чтобы можно было отправить родным по электронной почте».
- Можно также сказать боту «составить рацион для семьи из четырёх человек с опциями для вегетарианцев и тех, кто не любит орехи», а затем попросить его составить из упомянутых продуктов список покупок.
- «Умный» поиск можно будет использовать также и в браузере Microsoft — Edge. Чат-бот запускается в виде боковой панели.
- Можно попросить его, например, пересказать содержание открытой страницы — в том числе в PDF-файле. Или сравнить данные на ней с другой информацией в открытом доступе: скажем, сопоставить отчётность ритейлера Gap с показателями Lululemon и после этого вывести результаты в виде таблицы.
- Ещё несколько примеров использования — заставить бота переписать фрагмент кода со страницы Stack Overflow в Rust или опубликовать заметку в LinkedIn.
- Новый интерфейс Bing станет доступен во всех странах, но процесс будет «постепенным». По словам компании, оценить можно на десктопе в «ограниченном формате» (на презентации указали домен bing.com/new, однако редактор vc.ru не смог перейти по ссылке перед переадресации на главную поисковика).
- Экспериментировать с интеграцией ChatGPT в Word и Bing компания начала в январе 2023 года. Тогда же она подтвердила слухи о более тесном партнёрстве с OpenAI и «многомиллиардных инвестициях» в её разработки.
- По итогам первого месяца 2023-го ежемесячная активная аудитория ChatGPT выросла до 100 млн человек. Для сравнения: TikTok для этого понадобилось девять месяцев, а Instagram* — 2,5 года. 1 февраля OpenAI также анонсировала платную версию ChatGPT Plus — за $20 в месяц.
- 2 февраля Microsoft добавила в платную подписку Teams Premium функции, основанные на языковой модели GPT-3.5 от OpenAI (на ней же работает ChatGPT). А в будущем планировала интегрировать ИИ-решения в сервис для презентаций PowerPoint и почтовый Outlook.
**Meta, владеющая Instagram, признана экстремистской и запрещена в России.
Всем привет Сегодня я расскажу что за программа Bing Bar и зачем она нужна. Когда вы ставите какой-то софт, что часто бывает что вместе с ним и устанавливаются какие-то непонятные программы в виде дополнений к браузерам. И Bing Bar к этим программам также относится. Но зачем именно таким образом распространятся? Да, такое впаривание юзерам не совсем правильное решение, но тут прикол в другом. За каждое такое впаривание, кто-то получает небольшие отчисления в свой кошелек. Но кто именно не всегда ясно, это может быть как сам разработчик ПО, так и тот, кто склеил программу с рекламным мусором.
Для чего нужна программа Bing Bar? Дополнительная панелька Bing Bar к удивлению встраивается сама только в браузер Internet Explorer, хотя у меня и другие браузеры установлены, но даже тот же Хром был проигнорирован. Нет, это конечно хорошо, просто немного странновато, обычно подобные программа атакую сразу все браузеры, которые стоят в Windows.
Основные ключевые особенности Bing Bar:
- панель действительно возможно может быть полезной, так как она уже более интересная в плане интерфейса и через нее можно искать что-то в поисковике Бинг;
- в Bing Bar присутствует быстрый доступ к Фейсбуку или почте,
- в панельке также показывает какая сейчас погода, при этом если нажать на кнопку погоды, то будет красивое окошко, где можно посмотреть погоду и на следующие дни;
- так как панель от поисковика Bing (Майкрософт), то все инструменты нацелены на облегчение использование поисковика Бинг, то есть искать через панель в Гугл нельзя;
Как я уже писал, внешний вид именно этой панели мне нравится, он современный и вроде даже удобный, вот браузер Internet Explorer с установленной панелью:
Нажмем на кнопку погода, вот что будет показано:
Как по мне, хорошо сделали. Нажмем на кнопку Фейсбука:
Даже есть кнопка к быстрому доступу скайпа. При помощи этих кнопок можно поделится страницей в Фейсбуке. Панель Бинг Бар позволяет пообщаться в чате Фейсбука не открывая новой вкладки:
Есть еще переводчик, но может быть от Гугла перевод будет получше:
В общем все хорошо, но думаю что на практике Бинг Бар мало кому будет полезной, хотя вроде бы и все есть и все удобно, но мое мнение, что пользы на деле мало.
Ну и конечно, через эту панель можно что-то искать (но думаю что удобнее искать что-то через то поле, где находится адрес сайта):
Можно ли удалить программу Bing Bar?
Да, если для вас нет никакой пользы от Бинг Бар, то конечно можно данную панель и удалить. Но можно и не удалять, а отключить, я покажу как это сделать, так как знать такое вам будет полезно. Чтобы отключить, то сперва нужно открыть окошко Свойства Браузера. В Панели управления есть такой значок, но можно попасть туда и из меню браузера IE:
Потом на вкладке Программы нажмите кнопку Управление надстройками:
И вот тут уже отключить Bing-панель, тут есть еще какой-то Хелпер (Bing Bar Helper):
Но это чтобы отключить, просто вдруг у вас и другая какая-то панель есть в браузере, то ее не всегда можно удалить, но вместо этого можете попробовать отключить.
Ну а теперь покажу как именно деинсталлировать программу Bing Bar, открываем стартовое меню Пуск, а там находим пункт Панель управления (это в Windows 7, если у вас Windows 10, то зажмите Win + X и в меню выберите нужный пункт):
Потом находим там такой значок, чтобы открыть окно с установленными программами:
И вот там ищем, там где-то должна быть Панель Бинг, нажимаем правой кнопкой по ней и выбираем Удалить:
Начнется удаление:
Все, готово, потом если снова открыть то окно где у вас были показаны панели инструментов и расширения, то там будет пусто:
Это я показал к тому, что вот лично у меня выскочила какая-то ошибка, что мол удаление было неправильно из-за какого-то клиента почтового, которого у меня нет. В общем на это не обращайте внимание, это ерунда. Главное что все удалилось и браузер Internet Explorer чист:
Ну вот и все, мы удалили Бинг Бар из браузера IE навсегда, он больше не вернется
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На самом деле данная программа под названием —Bing Bar,является навязчивым продуктом от самого Microsofta.
И вы просто могли ее скачать с какой то нужно вам программой из Интернета и она установилась самостоятельно.
Bing Bar по сути своей является панелью разных инструментов от всем известной поисковой системы под называнием Bing. Из нее можно зайти в свою электронную почту, посмотреть последние новости интернета, вы сможете через нее смотреть видео и аудио, и конечно настроить ее по своим вкусам.
Это в том случае, если она вам нужна. А если нет, то вы ее легко сможете удалить или отключить, делайте это вот таким образом:
Вопрос : ЗАЧЕМ УСТАНАВЛИВАЛИ. Все «Бары» «пишутся» якобы для удобства пользователя и «легкого доступа» ко всяким приложениям, как правило рекламным. На самом деле эти программы помимо своей настоящей миссии — отслеживать и фиксировать, приносят вам в компьютер массу ненужных приложений, а вместе с ними и зараженных файлов. Удаление у всех разное как правило начинают с панели управления и заканчивая чисткой реестра. Не устанавливайте обновления пока не убедитесь в его необходимости, а уж если устанавливаете то попробуйте хотя бы раз установить «выборочно» что бы понять для чего и куда вы устанавливаете те или иные приложенияобновлялки. Будьте бдительны и внимательны.
Как отключить Поиск Bing в Windows 10
Обратите внимание, что вам нужны права администратора устройства, чтобы вносить изменения в реестр.
Рекомендуется создать резервную копию реестра Windows перед тем, как выполнить данные шаги. В меню редактора реестра выберите Файл > Экспорт для сохранения резервной копии.
- Откройте меню «Пуск», введите запрос regedit.exe и запустите редактор реестра.
- Перейдите по пути:
- Проверьте наличие подраздела Explorer.
- Если раздел существует, переходите к следующему шагу
- Если раздел отсутствует, кликните правой кнопкой мыши по Windows и выберите Создать > Раздел и задайте ему имя Explorer.
- Назовите параметр DisableSearchBoxSuggestions.
- Кликните по нему дважды и установите значение 1.
- Перезапустите Windows, выйдите из учетной записи и снова войдите в нее или закройте процесс Поиск в Диспетчере Задач для применения изменений.
Чтобы восстановить функцию онлайн-поиска, просто удалите ключ DisableSearchBoxSuggestions с помощью редактора реестра.
Теперь при выполнении поисковых запросов в Windows 10 вы будете получать результаты только локального поиска. Поисковые подсказки, например при поиске прогноза погоды, больше не будут выводиться в меню «Пуск».
Отключение поиска в Bing в Windows 10 позволяет улучшить приватность и предотвратить потенциальные проблемы с поиском.
Скачать Bing Bar бесплатно для Windows 7 русская версия
Даже сейчас, во время изобилия наборов продуктов для серфинга в интернете, многие пользователи стремятся именно скачать Bing Bar для Windows 7, не меняя излюбленный продукт на другой. В чем причина? Пожалуй, для начала стоит сказать о преимуществах использования приложения, которые открываются после установки Bing Bar.
Данной продукт максимально приближен к реалиям того, что сейчас так необходимо пользователю при работе с интернетом. Всего в пару кликов можно посмотреть последние новости, узнать о новых письмах на почте, просмотреть видео с социальных сетей и многое другое. Данная информация будет вынесена на главную панель, которую, конечно же, пользователь сможет редактировать по своему усмотрению.
У многих возникает вопрос: нужен ли Bing Bar и в чем его преимущество перед другими продуктами? Начнем с того, что данный продукт является грамотной редактурой популярных браузеров в котором, в отличии от других, максимально учтено требование пользователей к мобильности. Сам Bing Bar Installer имеет малый вес и соответственно мало нагружает систему процессами, и, тем не менее, его функционал можно назвать самым обширным среди подобных ему.
Стоит ли использовать данную программу
Для неопытных пользователей, слабо знакомых с возможностями сети, не знающих, что и где взять, эта программа Ubar может стать неплохим вариантом. Всё удобно размещено и отсортировано, остаётся лишь сделать пару кликов и получить быстрый доступ к развлечениям.
При этом, по моему мнению, данный софт обладает рядом существенных недостатков. Я бы отметил назойливый характер программы, совершенно не понятно, зачем устанавливать свои иконки и в трее, и на рабочем столе, и на «Панеле задач», а ещё добавлять дополнительную строку на самом верху рабочего стола.
Более того, используя программу Ubar некоторое время понимаешь, что продукт сыроват. Приложение может глючить при запуске, тормозить, при попытке войти в описание игры программа просто зависает. В общем, разработчикам ещё есть над чем работать.
Возможности Bing
Поисковик «Бинг» обладает рядом уникальных возможностей, что выделяет его на фоне остальных ПС. Из-за постоянного соперничества с Google система регулярно обновляется и вводит новые возможности, среди которых можно отметить следующие:
- каждый пользователь может выбрать формат отображения сниппетов в выдаче. Например, краткое или полное описание и т. д.;
- возможность выбрать количество отображаемых сайтов на одной странице выдачи, а также способ открытия новых сайтов (в новой или текущей вкладке/окне);
- интеграция с сервисами Microsoft Office. Например, встроенный поиск значений слов в Microsoft Word;
- журнал поиска, в котором отображаются все вводимые с данного устройства (браузера) запросы;
- возможность сохранения мест на карте, изображений, видео и новостей в «Мои коллекции».
Кроме вышеописанных, поисковая система Bing обладает и стандартными, присущими и другим ПС, возможностями и инструментами.
Сервис по размещению контекстной рекламы — Bing Ads
Конечно, среди рекламодателей из России этот сервис не является настолько популярным, как, например, тот же «Яндекс.Директ». Использование Bing Ads целесообразно только в тех случаях, когда продвижение проекта необходимо за пределами Рунета. В связи с меньшей популярностью поисковика «Бинг» конкуренции здесь намного меньше, при этом качество трафика не уступает Google, а платежеспособность аудитории находится на том же уровне.
Продвижение интернет-проектов в Bing требует определенных знаний и навыков. Некоторые факторы ранжирования отличаются от тех, что подходят для Google, а иногда и вовсе являются полной противоположностью. Иногда то, что положительно влияет на продвижение сайта в одной поисковой системе, может навредить продвижению в другой. Например, если в «Бинге» точное вхождение ключей в заголовках, подзаголовках и самом тексте приветствуется, то в «Гугле» это может повлечь за собой попадание под фильтры.
Различные типы выдачи
Как и другие поисковики, Bing умеет находить не только сайты с релевантным контентом, но и изображения, видеозаписи, новости. Здесь все более-менее привычно для пользователей Google и «Яндекса». Выбрать нужную категорию можно над результатами выдачи.
Карты от Bing
Данный инструмент позволяет искать конкретные места на карте, компании, заведения и т. д. Чтобы воспользоваться им, достаточно перейти по ссылке https://www.bing.com/maps/ и ввести в поисковую строку необходимый адрес (или название компании).
Все запросы сохраняются в истории слева и отмечаются маркерами различных цветов на карте.
Также здесь есть кнопка «Поделиться», позволяющая отправить найденные места в Facebook, Twitter или по электронной почте.
Просмотр карты доступен в двух режимах: дороги и гибридный вид (фото со спутника). Также можно включить полноэкранный режим.
Кнопка «Маршруты» позволит проложить путь от пункта А к пункту Б, покажет примерное время (на машине, автобусе или пешком) и длину в километрах. Найденный путь можно распечатать. В нем будут содержаться точные действия, в каком направлении двигаться, куда и когда повернуть и т. д.
Функция «Пробки» показывает ситуацию на дорогах, их загруженность и доступность. Все обозначения также находятся слева, что позволит легко сориентироваться даже неопытным пользователям. Если вы авторизованы в поиске «Бинг», то у вас дополнительно появится возможность сохранять места в «Мои коллекции».
Переводчик на базе Microsoft Translator
Еще один полезный инструмент. Он позволяет получить максимально точный перевод с возможностью голосования за тот или иной результат. Сервис имеет более 60 языков в своем распоряжении.
Переводчик от поисковика Bing также предлагает приложение для мобильных устройств, инструменты для бизнеса и обучения.
Внешний вид
После установки приложения необходимо включить отображение панели инструментов в браузере. Далее следует добавить нужные значки.
Утилита позволяет отобразить виджет с информацией о погоде. Есть возможность выбрать город самостоятельно или воспользоваться функцией автоматического определения местоположения. Доступна информация о текущей температуре воздуха и вероятности осадков в ближайшее время. Также пользователи могут посмотреть прогноз погоды на предстоящую неделю.
Есть возможность добавить на панель инструментов иконку, позволяющую быстро перевести на другой язык выделенный фрагмент текста. Кроме того, приложение позволяет найти нужную информацию при помощи поисковой системы Bing.
В основе лежит языковая модель OpenAI GPT, но новее, чем у ChatGPT
Компания Google сегодня представила сервис Bard, как ответ на ChatGPT, а Microsoft анонсировала обновление поисковой системы Bing с внедрённой языковой моделью GPT.
Microsoft называет это совершенно новой поисковой системой Bing на основе искусственного интеллекта, которая должна обеспечить улучшенный поиск, более полные ответы, новый интерфейс чата и возможность создавать контент.
Искусственный интеллект коренным образом изменит каждую категорию программного обеспечения, начиная с самой большой категории — поиска. Сегодня мы запускаем Bing и Edge на базе второго пилота и чата с искусственным интеллектом, чтобы помочь людям получить больше от поиска и Интернета
Относительно нового поиска Bing и нового браузер Edge сама Microsoft выделяет ряд основных особенностей.
- Лучший поиск. Новый Bing предоставляет улучшенную версию знакомого поиска, предоставляя более релевантные результаты для простых вещей, таких как спортивные результаты, курсы акций и погода, а также новую боковую панель, которая показывает более полные ответы, если они вам нужны.
- Полные ответы. Bing просматривает результаты со всего Интернета, чтобы найти и обобщить ответ, который вы ищете. Например, вы можете получить подробные инструкции о том, как заменить яйца на другой ингредиент в торте, который вы печете, прямо в этот момент, не просматривая несколько результатов.
- Новый опыт чата. Для более сложных поисков, например, для планирования подробного маршрута поездки или изучения того, какой телевизор купить — новый Bing предлагает новый интерактивный чат. Благодаря чату вы можете уточнять поиск, пока не получите полный ответ, который ищете, запрашивая более подробную информацию, ясность и идеи — с доступными ссылками, чтобы вы могли немедленно действовать в соответствии со своими решениями.
- Творческая искра. Бывают моменты, когда вам нужно больше, чем ответ — вам нужно вдохновение. Новый Bing может генерировать контент, чтобы помочь вам. Это может помочь вам написать электронное письмо, создать пятидневный маршрут для отпуска мечты на Гавайи со ссылками, чтобы забронировать поездку и проживание, подготовиться к собеседованию или создать вопросы для викторины. Новый Bing также цитирует все свои источники, поэтому вы можете видеть ссылки на веб-контент, на который он ссылается.
- Новый интерфейс Microsoft Edge. Мы обновили браузер Edge новыми возможностями искусственного интеллекта и новым внешним видом, а также добавили две новые функции: чат и написание сообщений. С помощью боковой панели Edge вы можете запросить сводку длинного финансового отчета, чтобы получить основные выводы, а затем использовать функцию чата, чтобы запросить сравнение с финансовыми показателями конкурирующей компании и автоматически поместить его в таблицу. Вы также можете попросить Edge помочь вам составить контент, например публикацию в LinkedIn, предоставив ему несколько подсказок, чтобы начать работу. После этого вы можете попросить его помочь вам обновить тон, формат и длину поста. Edge может понять веб-страницу, на которой вы находитесь, и соответствующим образом адаптироваться.
В основе Bing лежит не та же языковая модель, на которой основан ChatGPT, а модель нового поколения. Возможно, это GPT-4, но напрямую в пресс-релизе об этом не сказано. Также компания отмечает, что создала Microsoft Prometheus — собственный метод работы с языковой моделью OpenAI, который позволяет использовать последнюю максимально эффективно.
Новый Bing доступен с сегодняшнего дня, но изначально в виде ограниченной предварительной версии для настольных ПК.
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Описание программы
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Функциональность
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Удаление
При обновлении ПО и установке нужных программ, пользователи часто сталкиваются с с второстепенным софтом, который идет в комплекте с установщиком. Microsoft за счет успешных продуктов продвигает менее популярные утилиты и программы, в надежде найти целевую аудиторию. Одна из таких “полезных утилит” носит название Bing Bar. Что это за программа и какие у нее функции рассмотрим ниже.
Описание программы
Bing Bar (Панель Bing) – распространенная панель от поисковика Bing. Она позволяет получить:
- Быстрый доступ к поиску информации.
- Доступ к актуальным новостям, видео, популярным развлечениям.
- Мгновенный доступ к заголовкам новостей.
Программа идет в комплекте установщика другого ПО Microsoft (например DirectX, Skype), но ее можно скачать и с официального сайта.
Функциональность
Важно! Bing Bar не совместима с ОС Windows 10. Работает только с версиями Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP с пакетом обновления 3 (SP3) и Internet Explorer 7 или более поздней версии.
Панель предоставляет самые необходимые функции (по мнению разработчиков), а именно:
- Интерактивные карты – для просмотра ситуаций на дорогах и составления маршрутов.
- Сводки погоды – просмотр погодных условий для своего города или конкретного места по всей планете.
- Электронная почта – можно подвязать все свои почтовые ящики и читать почту с одного места.
- Facebook – интеграция с популярной социальной сетью.
- Skype – интеграция с известным месенджером.
- Поисковая строка – искать информацию можно прямо в окне панели.
Удаление
Программа не представляет угрозы для компьютера и без труда удаляется с ПК.
Для отключения программы:
- Зайдите в Internet Explorer.
- Выберите Инструменты → Управление надстройками → Панели инструментов и расширения.
- Выберите Bing и нажмите “Отключить”.
Для удаления:
- Зайдите в Панель управления.
- Откройте “Установка и удаление программ”.
- Выберите “Панель Bing” и нажмите “Удалить”.
Если у вас есть вопрос касательно Bing или других продуктов Microsoft напишите нам. Укажите, с чем возникла трудность, чтобы мы смогли помочь.
Bing Bar что это за программа? Подобная тема интересна многим пользователям ПК, которые внезапно обнаружили на своём компьютере неизвестную надстройку в браузерах или на рабочем столе. Дело в том, что Бинг Бар редко устанавливается добровольно – чаще он попадает в систему вместе с другим софтом, который мы инсталлируем намеренно.
Обзор сервиса
Сразу же стоит отметить, что автором данной разработки является компания Майкрософт, а это уже говорит о многом. В первую очередь, не стоит переживать, что Ваш ноутбук заражен вирусами, все данные за секунду зашифруются и т.д. Такого точно не случится. Во-вторых, теперь понятно, почему при запуске Internet Explorer сразу же загружается сайт поисковой системы Bing. То же самое характерно и для Edge.
Бинг Бар представляет собой панель с различными инструментами, которая располагается в верхней части браузерного окна, предлагает возможность гибкой настройки элементов – добавлять новые, удалять существующие.
Скачать при необходимости можно с официального сайта.
Большую часть Bing Bar занимает строка ввода поисковых запросов, расположенная практически по центру. Также присутствует кнопка просмотра погоды от сервиса AccuWeather (кликаем по изображению солнца), доступ к социальной сети Facebook, запуск веб-версии мессенджера Skype и т.д.
Наибольший интерес вызывают новости MSN, которые разделены на категории. Можно задавать фильтр показа, чтобы отображались только интересные Вам события (для конкретной страны).
Еще несколько лет назад данный продукт от Microsoft продвигался очень агрессивно, его «впаривали» в процессе установки многих полезных приложений. И если пользователь не снимал галочку в определенном месте, то в браузерах IE и Firefox появлялся новый набор инструментов.
Bing Bar что за программа разобрались, но нужна ли она? Здесь уже решать Вам, поскольку одним функционал панели покажется полезным, другие – не увидят в нём ничего интересного, да еще и нагрузка на оперативную память чуть увеличивается.
Для деловых людей – это неплохой инструмент, позволяющий читать новости, просматривать курсы валют и котировки на биржах, видеть прогноз погоды на несколько дней.
А вот поисковые возможности Бинг немного не соответствуют потребностям пользователей Рунета, поскольку при ранжировании учитываются совершенно другие факторы, выводятся не те сайты (зачастую).
Интеграция с Facebook выглядит хорошо, можно и сообщения видеть (даже отвечать на них), и просматривать ленту:
Даже кнопка переводчика присутствует, если вдруг захотите перевести иностранный сайт на удобный для чтения язык. Хотя используемые алгоритмы преобразования текста далеки от идеальных. Однозначно, возможности Google Translate более продвинутые.
Ну и главный недостаток – совместимость только с браузерами Internet Explorer/Edge, а также со старыми версиями Firefox.
Полезный контент:
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- WinSxS что это за папка Windows, как очистить?
- KLO Bugreport: что это за программа, как удалить?
- Aswidsagent.exe — что это за процесс?
Можно ли удалить Bing Bar?
Скорее всего, у Вас возникнет подобное желание. Сразу обращаю Ваше внимание, если увидите подобную панель в Опера, Хроме, значит высока вероятность вирусного заражения. Злоумышленники внедряют в систему вредоносный скрипт, который выдает себя за средство Бинг. Но за всем этим скрываются совсем другие намерения – сбор личных данных, паролей, показ навязчивой рекламы.
В такой ситуации стоит немедленно скачать утилиту AdwCleaner и просканировать компьютер, чтобы избавиться от вирусов.
А вот инструкция, как удалить Bing Bar из IE:
- Запускаем браузер и открываем свойства через значок «шестеренка» справа;
- Откроется окно с несколькими вкладками, нас интересует «Программы», на которой есть кнопка «Настроить надстройки»:
- В перечне находим Бинг Бар и ниже кликаем по кнопке отключения:
- Но это еще не всё. Далее необходимо произвести деинсталляцию приложения. Открываем панель управления (ниже скриншоты для Windows 7 и «десятки»):
- Заходим в раздел «Программы и компоненты»:
- Просматриваем список софта, находим ненужный и удаляем:
- Спустя пару минут утилита будет устранена с ПК окончательно.
Можно еще просканировать систему с помощью CCleaner, Reg Organizer или любого другого оптимизатора, чтобы убрать следы ПО и прочий мусор из реестра.
Теперь Вы знаете, нужно ли приложение Bing Bar на компьютере. Надеюсь, моя публикация Вам пригодилась. Отзывы и пожелания принимаются в комментариях.
«Live Search» and «Live search» redirect here. For other uses, see Incremental search.
Main logo since October 2020 |
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Screenshot The Bing homepage features an image or video that changes daily |
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Type of site |
Search engine |
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Available in | 40 languages |
Owner | Microsoft |
Created by | Microsoft |
Revenue | Microsoft Advertising |
URL | bing.com |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional (Microsoft account) |
Launched | June 3, 2009; 13 years ago |
Current status | Active |
Written in | ASP.NET[1] |
Microsoft Bing (commonly known as Bing) is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft’s previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. It is developed using ASP.NET.
Bing, Microsoft’s replacement for Live Search, was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, California, for release on June 3, 2009.[2] Notable new features at the time included the listing of search suggestions while queries are entered and a list of related searches (called «Explore pane») based on semantic technology from Powerset,[3] which Microsoft had acquired in 2008.[4]
In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.[5] Yahoo! finished the transition in 2012.[6]
In October 2011, Microsoft stated that they were working on new back-end search infrastructure with the goal of delivering faster and slightly more relevant search results for users. Known as «Tiger», the new index-serving technology had been incorporated into Bing globally since August that year.[7] In May 2012, Microsoft announced another redesign of its search engine that includes «Sidebar», a social feature that searches users’ social networks for information relevant to the search query.[8]
The BitFunnel search engine indexing algorithm and various components of the search engine were made open source by Microsoft in 2016.[9][10]
As of October 2018, (Microsoft) Bing is the third largest search engine globally, with a query volume of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) and Baidu (14.45%). Yahoo! Search, which Bing largely powers, has 2.63%.[11][12]
History
MSN Search
MSN Search homepage in 2002
MSN Search homepage in 2006
Microsoft originally launched MSN Search in the third quarter of 1998, using search results from Inktomi. It consisted of a search engine, index, and web crawler. In early 1999, MSN Search launched a version which displayed listings from Looksmart blended with results from Inktomi except for a short time in 1999 when results from AltaVista were used instead. Microsoft decided to make a large investment in web search by building its own web crawler for MSN Search, the index of which was updated weekly and sometimes daily. The upgrade started as a beta program in November 2004, and came out of beta in February 2005.[13] This occurred a year after rival Yahoo! Search rolled out its own crawler too. Image search was powered by a third party, Picsearch. The service also started providing its search results to other search engine portals in an effort to better compete in the market.
Windows Live Search
Windows Live Search homepage
The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006 replacing MSN Search. The new search engine used search tabs that include Web, news, images, music, desktop, local, and Microsoft Encarta.
In the roll-over from MSN Search to Windows Live Search, Microsoft stopped using Picsearch as their image search provider and started performing their own image search, fueled by their own internal image search algorithms.[14]
Live Search
Live Search homepage, which would help to create the Bing homepage later on
On March 21, 2007, Microsoft announced that it would separate its search developments from the Windows Live services family, rebranding the service as Live Search. Live Search was integrated into the Live Search and Ad Platform headed by Satya Nadella, part of Microsoft’s Platform and Systems division. As part of this change, Live Search was merged with Microsoft adCenter.[15]
A series of reorganizations and consolidations of Microsoft’s search offerings were made under the Live Search branding. On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of Live Search Books and Live Search Academic and integrated all academic and book search results into regular search, and as a result this also included the closure of Live Search Books Publisher Program. Soon after, Windows Live Expo was discontinued on July 31, 2008. Live Search Macros, a service for users to create their own custom search engines or use macros created by other users, was also discontinued shortly after. On May 15, 2009, Live Product Upload, a service which allowed merchants to upload products information onto Live Search Products, was discontinued. The final reorganization came as Live Search QnA which was rebranded as MSN QnA on February 18, 2009, although it was discontinued on May 21, 2009.[16]
Rebrand as Bing
First Bing logo, used until September 2013
Second Bing logo, used from 2013 until 2016
Third Bing logo, used from 2016 until 2020
Forth fluent Bing logo, used in 2020
Microsoft recognized that there would be a problem with branding as long as the word «Live» remained in the name.[17] As an effort to create a new identity for Microsoft’s search services, Live Search was officially replaced by Bing on June 3, 2009.[18]
The Bing name was chosen through focus groups, and Microsoft decided that the name was memorable, short, and easy to spell, and that it would function well as a URL around the world. The word would remind people of the sound made during «the moment of discovery and decision making».[19] Microsoft was assisted by branding consultancy Interbrand in their search for the best name for the new search engine.[20] The name also has strong similarity to the word bingo, which is used to mean that something sought has been found or realized, as is interjected when winning the game Bingo. Microsoft advertising strategist David Webster originally proposed the name «Bang» for the same reasons the name Bing was ultimately chosen (easy to spell, one syllable, and easy to remember). He noted, «It’s there, it’s an exclamation point […] It’s the opposite of a question mark.» This name was ultimately not chosen because it could not be properly used as a verb in the context of an internet search; Webster commented «Oh, ‘I banged it’ is very different than ‘I binged it'».[21]
Qi Lu, president of Microsoft Online Services, also announced that Bing’s official Chinese name is bì yìng (simplified Chinese: 必应; traditional Chinese: 必應), which literally means «very certain to respond» or «very certain to answer» in Chinese.[22]
While being tested internally by Microsoft employees, Bing’s codename was Kumo (くも),[23] which came from the Japanese word for spider (蜘蛛; くも, kumo) as well as cloud (雲; くも, kumo), referring to the manner in which search engines «spider» Internet resources to add them to their database, as well as cloud computing.
ChatGPT
On February 7, 2023, Microsoft announced a major overhaul to Bing, adding OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI to the search engine.[24]
Legal challenges
On July 31, 2009, The Laptop Company, Inc. stated in a press release that it would challenge Bing’s trademark application, alleging that Bing may cause confusion in the marketplace as Bing and their product BongoBing both do online product search.[25] Software company TeraByte Unlimited, which has a product called BootIt Next Generation (abbreviated to BING), also contended the trademark application on similar grounds, as did a Missouri-based design company called Bing! Information Design.[26]
Microsoft contended that claims challenging its trademark were without merit because these companies filed for U.S. federal trademark applications only after Microsoft filed for the Bing trademark in March 2009.[27]
Deal with Yahoo!
On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced that they had made a ten-year deal in which the Yahoo! search engine would be replaced by Bing, retaining the Yahoo! user interface. Yahoo! got to keep 88% of the revenue from all search ad sales on its site for the first five years of the deal, and have the right to sell advertising on some Microsoft sites.[28][29] All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners made the transition by early 2012.[6]
Features
Third-party integration
Facebook users have the option to share their searches with their Facebook friends using Facebook Connect.[30]
On June 10, 2013, Apple announced that it would be dropping Google as its web search engine in favor of Bing.[31] This feature is only integrated with iOS 7 and higher and for users with an iPhone 4S or higher as the feature is only integrated with Siri, Apple’s personal assistant.
Integration with Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 includes Bing «Smart Search» integration, which processes all queries submitted through the Windows Start Screen.[32]
Translator
Bing Translator is a user facing translation portal provided by Microsoft to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages. All translation pairs are powered by the Microsoft Translator, a statistical machine translation platform and web service, developed by Microsoft Research, as its backend translation software. Two transliteration pairs (between Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional)) are provided by Microsoft’s Windows International team.[33] As of September 2020, Bing Translator offers translations in 70 different language systems.[34]
Knowledge and Action Graph
In 2015 Microsoft announced its knowledge and action API to correspond with Google’s Knowledge graph with 1 billion instances and 20 billion related facts.[35]
Bing Predicts
The idea for a prediction engine was first suggested by Walter Sun, Development Manager for the Core Ranking team at Bing, when he noticed that school districts were more frequently searched before a major weather event in the area was forecasted, because searchers wanted to find out if a closing or delay was caused. He concluded that the time and location of major weather events could accurately be predicted without referring to a weather forecast by observing major increases in search frequency of school districts in the area. This inspired Bing to use its search data to infer outcomes of certain events, such as winners of reality shows.[36] Bing Predicts launched on April 21, 2014. The first reality shows to be featured on Bing Predicts were The Voice, American Idol, and Dancing with the Stars.[37]
The prediction accuracy for Bing Predicts is 80% for American Idol, and 85% for The Voice. Bing Predicts also predicts the outcomes of major political elections in the United States. Bing Predicts had 97% accuracy for the 2014 United States Senate elections, 96% accuracy for the 2014 United States House of Representatives elections, and an 89% accuracy for the 2014 United States gubernatorial elections. Bing Predicts also made predictions for the results of the 2016 United States presidential primaries.[38] It has also done predictions in sports, including a perfect 15 for 15 in the 2014 World Cup,[39] leading to positive press such as a Business Insider story on its successes[40] and a PC World article on how Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella did well in his March Madness bracket entry.[41]
In 2016, Bing Predicts failed to accurately predict the winner of the 2016 US presidential election, suggesting that Hillary Clinton would win by 81%.
International
Bing is available in many languages and has been localized for many countries.[42] Even if the language of the search and of the results are the same, Bing delivers substantially different results for different parts of the world.[43]
Webmaster services
Bing allows webmasters to manage the web crawling status of their own websites through Bing Webmaster Center. Users may also submit contents to Bing via the Bing Local Listing Center, which allows businesses to add business listings onto Bing Maps and Bing Local.
Mobile services
Bing Mobile allows users to conduct search queries on their mobile devices, either via the mobile browser or a downloadable mobile application.
Bing News
Bing News (previously Live Search News)[44] is a news aggregator powered by artificial intelligence.[45]
In August 2015 Microsoft announced that Bing News for mobile devices added algorithmic-deduced «smart labels» that essentially act as topic tags, allowing users to click through and explore possible relationships between different news stories. The feature emerged as a result from Microsoft research that found out about 60% of the people consume news by only reading headlines, rather than read the articles.[46] Other labels that have been deployed since then include publisher logos[47] and fact-check tags.
Software
Toolbars
The Bing Bar, a browser extension toolbar that replaced the MSN Toolbar, provides users with links to Bing and MSN content from within their web browser without needing to navigate away from a web page they are already on. The user can customize the theme and color scheme of the Bing Bar as well as choose which MSN content buttons to present within the user interface. Bing Bar also displays the current local weather forecast and stock market positions.[48]
The Bing Bar features integration with Microsoft Bing search engine. In addition to the traditional web search functions, Bing Bar also allows search on other Bing services such as Images, Video, News and Maps. When users perform a search on another search engine, the Bing Bar’s search box will automatically populate itself, allowing the user to view the results from Bing, should it be desired.
Bing Bar also links to Outlook.com, Skype and Facebook.[49]
Desktop
Microsoft released a beta version of Bing Desktop, a program developed to allow users to search Bing from the desktop, on April 4, 2012.[50] The initial release followed shortly on April 24, 2012, supporting Windows 7 only.[51] With the release of version 1.1 in December 2012 it supported Windows XP and higher.[52]
Bing Desktop allows users to initiate a web search from the desktop, view news headlines, automatically set their background to the Bing homepage image, or choose a background from the previous nine background images.[53]
A similar program, the Bing Search gadget, was a Windows Sidebar Gadget that used Bing to fetch the user’s search results and render them directly in the gadget. Another gadget, the Bing Maps gadget, displayed real-time traffic conditions using Bing Maps.[54] The gadget provided shortcuts to driving directions, local search and full-screen traffic view of major US and Canadian cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Montreal, New York City, Oklahoma City, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C.
Prior to October 30, 2007, the gadgets were known as Live Search gadget and Live Search Maps gadget; both gadgets were removed from Windows Live Gallery due to possible security concerns.[55] The Live Search Maps gadget was made available for download again on January 24, 2008 with the security concern addressed.[56] However around the introduction of Bing in June 2009 both gadgets have been removed again for download from Windows Live Gallery.
Before the launch of Bing, the market share of Microsoft web search pages (MSN and Live search) had been small. By January 2011, Experian Hitwise show that Bing’s market share had increased to 12.8% at the expense of Yahoo! and Google. In the same period, comScore’s «2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review» report showed that «Bing was the big gainer in year-over-year search activity, picking up 29% more searches in 2010 than it did in 2009».[57] The Wall Street Journal notes the 1% jump in share «appeared to come at the expense of rival Google Inc».[58] In February 2011, Bing beat Yahoo! for the first time with 4.37% search share while Yahoo! received 3.93%.[59]
Counting core searches only, i.e., those where the user has an intent to interact with the search result, Bing had a market share of 14.54% in the second quarter of 2011 in the United States.[30][60][61][62]
The combined «Bing Powered» U.S. searches declined from 26.5% in 2011 to 25.9% in April 2012.[63] By November 2015, its market share had declined further to 20.9%.[64] As of October 2018, Bing is the third largest search engine in the US, with a query volume of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) and Baidu (14.45%). Yahoo! Search, which Bing largely powers, has 2.63%.
UK advertising agencies point to a study by Microsoft’s Regional Sales Director suggesting the demographic of Bing users is older people (who are less likely to change the default browser of Windows), and that this audience is wealthier and more likely to respond to advertisements.[65]
To counter EU accusations that it is trying to establish a market monopoly, in September 2021, Google’s lawyers claimed that one of the most commonly searched words on Microsoft Bing was Google, which is a strong indication that Google is superior to Bing.[66][67]
Powered by
In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.[5] All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners made the transition by early 2012.[6] The deal was altered in 2015, meaning Yahoo! was only required to use Bing for a «majority» of searches.[11]
DuckDuckGo uses multiple sources for its search engine, including Bing, since 2010.[68][69][70]
Ecosia uses Bing to provide its search results since 2017.[71]
Marketing and advertisements
Live Search
Since 2006, Microsoft had conducted a number of tie-ins and promotions for promoting Microsoft’s search offerings. These include:
- Amazon’s A9 search service and the experimental Ms. Dewey interactive search site syndicated all search results from Microsoft’s then search engine, Live Search. This tie-in started on May 1, 2006.
- Search and Give – a promotional website launched on January 17, 2007 where all searches done from a special portal site would lead to a donation to the UNHCR’s organization for refugee children, ninemillion.org. Reuters AlertNet reported in 2007 that the amount to be donated would be $0.01 per search, with a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $250,000 (equivalent to 25 million searches).[72] According to the website the service was decommissioned on June 1, 2009, having donated over $500,000 to charity and schools.[73]
- Club Bing – a promotional website where users can win prizes by playing word games that generate search queries on Microsoft’s then search service Live Search. This website began in April 2007 as Live Search Club.
- Big Snap Search – a promotional website similar to Live Search Club. This website began in February 2008, but was discontinued shortly after.[74]
- Live Search SearchPerks! — a promotional website which allowed users to redeem tickets for prizes while using Microsoft’s search engine. This website began on October 1, 2008 and was decommissioned on April 15, 2009.
Debut
Bing’s debut featured an $80 to $100 million online, TV, print, and radio advertising campaign in the US. The advertisements do not mention other search engine competitors, such as Google and Yahoo!, directly by name; rather, they attempt to convince users to switch to Bing by focusing on Bing’s search features and functionality.[75] The ads claim that Bing does a better job countering «search overload».[76]
«Decision engine»
Bing has been heavily advertised as a «decision engine»,[77] though thought by columnist David Berkowitz to be more closely related to a web portal.[78]
Bing Rewards
Bing Rewards was a loyalty program launched by Microsoft in September 2010. It was similar to two earlier services, SearchPerks! and Bing Cashback, which were subsequently discontinued.
Bing Rewards provided credits to users through regular Bing searches and special promotions.[79] These credits were then redeemed for various products including electronics, gift cards, sweepstakes, and charitable donations.[80] Initially, participants were required to download and use the Bing Bar for Internet Explorer in order to earn credits; but later the service was made to work with all desktop browsers.[81]
The Bing Rewards program was rebranded as «Microsoft Rewards» in 2016,[82] at which point it was modified to only two levels, Level 1 and Level 2. Level 1 is similar to «Member», and Level 2 is similar to «Gold» of the previous Bing Rewards.
The Colbert Report
During the episode of The Colbert Report that aired on June 8, 2010, Stephen Colbert stated that Microsoft would donate $2,500 to help clean up the Gulf oil spill each time he mentioned the word «Bing» on air. Colbert mostly mentioned Bing in out-of-context situations, such as Bing Crosby and Bing cherries. By the end of the show, Colbert had said the word 40 times, for a total donation of $100,000. Colbert poked fun at their rivalry with Google, stating «Bing is a great website for doing Internet searches. I know that, because I Googled it.»[83][84]
Search deals
Bing was added into the list of search engines available in Opera browser from v10.6, but Google remained the default search engine.[85] Mozilla Firefox made a deal with Microsoft to jointly release «Firefox with Bing»,[86] an edition of Firefox where Bing has replaced Google as the default search engine.[87][88] The standard edition of Firefox has Google as its default search engine, but has included Bing in its list of search providers since Firefox version 4.0.[89]
In addition, Microsoft paid Verizon Wireless US$550 million[90] to use Bing as the default search provider on Verizon’s BlackBerry and have Verizon «turn off» (via BlackBerry service books) the other search providers available. Users could still access other search engines via the mobile browser.[91]
Bing It On
In 2012, a Bing marketing campaign asked the public which search engine they believed was better when its results were presented without branding, similar to the Pepsi Challenge in the 1970s.[92][93] This poll was nicknamed «Bing It On».[94][95] Microsoft presented a study of almost 1,000 people[96] which showed that 57% of participants in such a test preferred Bing’s results, with only 30% preferring Google.[97]
Adult content
Bing censors results for «adult» search terms for some regions, including India, People’s Republic of China, Germany and Arab countries[98] where required by local laws.[99] However, Bing allows users to change their country or region preference to somewhere without restrictions, such as the United States, United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland.
Notice reading «Your country or region requires a strict Bing SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult content. If you’re seeing adult content, tell us about it so we can filter it in the future. To learn more about SafeSearch requirements in your country or region, see How Bing delivers search results.»
Criticism
Censorship
Microsoft has been criticized for censoring Bing search results to queries made in simplified Chinese characters which are used in mainland China. This is done to comply with the censorship requirements of the government in China.[100] Microsoft has not indicated a willingness to stop censoring search results in simplified Chinese characters in the wake of Google’s decision to do so.[101] All simplified Chinese searches in Bing are censored regardless of the user’s country.[102][103] The English-language search results of Bing in China has been skewed to show more content from state-run media like Xinhua News Agency and China Daily.[104] On 23 January 2019, Bing was blocked in China.[105] According to a source quoted by The Financial Times, the order was from the Chinese government to block Bing for «illegal content».[106] On 24 January, Bing was accessible again in China.[107]
Around 4 June 2021, the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Bing blocked image and video search results for the English term «Tank Man» in the US, UK, France, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, and other countries. Microsoft responded that «This is due to an accidental human error».[108][109]
In December 2021, it was required by a «relevant government agency» to suspend its auto-suggest function in China for 30 days.[110] The search engine became partially unavailable in mainland China from 16 December until its resumption on 18 December 2021.[111][112] According to the company, a government agency in March 2022 required that it suspend auto-suggest function in China for seven days; Bing did not specify the reason.[113] In May 2022, a report released by the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto found that Bing’s autosuggestion system censored the names of Chinese Communist Party leaders, dissidents, and other persons considered politically sensitive in China in both Chinese and English, not only in China but also in United States and Canada.[114][115]
Copyright-infringing content
On February 20, 2017, Bing agreed to a voluntary United Kingdom code of practice obligating it to demote links to copyright-infringing content in its search results.[116][117]
Performance issues
Bing has been criticized for being slower to index websites than Google. It has also been criticized for not indexing some websites at all.[118][119]
Allegedly copying Google’s results
Bing has been criticized by competitor Google for utilizing user input via Internet Explorer, the Bing Toolbar, or Suggested Sites, to add results to Bing. After discovering in October 2010 that Bing appeared to be imitating Google’s auto-correct results for a misspelling, despite not actually fixing the spelling of the term, Google set up a honeypot, configuring the Google search engine to return specific unrelated results for 100 nonsensical queries such as hiybbprqag.[120] Over the next couple of weeks, Google engineers entered the search term into Google, while using Microsoft Internet Explorer, with the Bing Toolbar installed and the optional Suggested Sites enabled. In 9 out of the 100 queries, Bing later started returning the same results as Google, despite the only apparent connection between the result and search term being that Google’s results connected the two.[121][122]
Microsoft’s response to this issue, coming from a company spokesperson, was: «We do not copy Google’s results.» Bing’s Vice President, Harry Shum, later reiterated that the search result data Google claimed that Bing copied had in fact come from Bing’s very own users. Shum wrote that «we use over 1,000 different signals and features in our ranking algorithm. A small piece of that is clickstream data we get from some of our customers, who opt into sharing anonymous data as they navigate the web in order to help us improve the experience for all users.»
[123]
Microsoft stated that Bing was not intended to be a duplicate of any existing search engines.[124]
Child pornography
A study released in 2019 of Bing Image search showed that it both freely offered up images that had been tagged as illegal child pornography in national databases, as well as automatically suggesting via its auto-completion feature queries related to child pornography. This easy accessibility was considered particularly surprising since Microsoft pioneered PhotoDNA, the main technology used for tracking images reported as originating from child pornography.[125] Additionally, some arrested child pornographers reported using Bing as their main search engine for new content.[126] Microsoft vowed to fix the problem and assign additional staff to combat the issue after the report was released.
Privacy
In 2022, France imposed a €60 million fine on Microsoft for privacy law violations using Bing cookies that prevented users rejecting those cookies.[127][128][129]
See also
- List of search engines by popularity
- Comparison of web search engines
- List of search engines
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External links
Media related to Bing at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
«Live Search» and «Live search» redirect here. For other uses, see Incremental search.
Main logo since October 2020 |
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Screenshot The Bing homepage features an image or video that changes daily |
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Type of site |
Search engine |
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Available in | 40 languages |
Owner | Microsoft |
Created by | Microsoft |
Revenue | Microsoft Advertising |
URL | bing.com |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional (Microsoft account) |
Launched | June 3, 2009; 13 years ago |
Current status | Active |
Written in | ASP.NET[1] |
Microsoft Bing (commonly known as Bing) is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft’s previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. It is developed using ASP.NET.
Bing, Microsoft’s replacement for Live Search, was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, California, for release on June 3, 2009.[2] Notable new features at the time included the listing of search suggestions while queries are entered and a list of related searches (called «Explore pane») based on semantic technology from Powerset,[3] which Microsoft had acquired in 2008.[4]
In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.[5] Yahoo! finished the transition in 2012.[6]
In October 2011, Microsoft stated that they were working on new back-end search infrastructure with the goal of delivering faster and slightly more relevant search results for users. Known as «Tiger», the new index-serving technology had been incorporated into Bing globally since August that year.[7] In May 2012, Microsoft announced another redesign of its search engine that includes «Sidebar», a social feature that searches users’ social networks for information relevant to the search query.[8]
The BitFunnel search engine indexing algorithm and various components of the search engine were made open source by Microsoft in 2016.[9][10]
As of October 2018, (Microsoft) Bing is the third largest search engine globally, with a query volume of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) and Baidu (14.45%). Yahoo! Search, which Bing largely powers, has 2.63%.[11][12]
History
MSN Search
MSN Search homepage in 2002
MSN Search homepage in 2006
Microsoft originally launched MSN Search in the third quarter of 1998, using search results from Inktomi. It consisted of a search engine, index, and web crawler. In early 1999, MSN Search launched a version which displayed listings from Looksmart blended with results from Inktomi except for a short time in 1999 when results from AltaVista were used instead. Microsoft decided to make a large investment in web search by building its own web crawler for MSN Search, the index of which was updated weekly and sometimes daily. The upgrade started as a beta program in November 2004, and came out of beta in February 2005.[13] This occurred a year after rival Yahoo! Search rolled out its own crawler too. Image search was powered by a third party, Picsearch. The service also started providing its search results to other search engine portals in an effort to better compete in the market.
Windows Live Search
Windows Live Search homepage
The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006 replacing MSN Search. The new search engine used search tabs that include Web, news, images, music, desktop, local, and Microsoft Encarta.
In the roll-over from MSN Search to Windows Live Search, Microsoft stopped using Picsearch as their image search provider and started performing their own image search, fueled by their own internal image search algorithms.[14]
Live Search
Live Search homepage, which would help to create the Bing homepage later on
On March 21, 2007, Microsoft announced that it would separate its search developments from the Windows Live services family, rebranding the service as Live Search. Live Search was integrated into the Live Search and Ad Platform headed by Satya Nadella, part of Microsoft’s Platform and Systems division. As part of this change, Live Search was merged with Microsoft adCenter.[15]
A series of reorganizations and consolidations of Microsoft’s search offerings were made under the Live Search branding. On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of Live Search Books and Live Search Academic and integrated all academic and book search results into regular search, and as a result this also included the closure of Live Search Books Publisher Program. Soon after, Windows Live Expo was discontinued on July 31, 2008. Live Search Macros, a service for users to create their own custom search engines or use macros created by other users, was also discontinued shortly after. On May 15, 2009, Live Product Upload, a service which allowed merchants to upload products information onto Live Search Products, was discontinued. The final reorganization came as Live Search QnA which was rebranded as MSN QnA on February 18, 2009, although it was discontinued on May 21, 2009.[16]
Rebrand as Bing
First Bing logo, used until September 2013
Second Bing logo, used from 2013 until 2016
Third Bing logo, used from 2016 until 2020
Forth fluent Bing logo, used in 2020
Microsoft recognized that there would be a problem with branding as long as the word «Live» remained in the name.[17] As an effort to create a new identity for Microsoft’s search services, Live Search was officially replaced by Bing on June 3, 2009.[18]
The Bing name was chosen through focus groups, and Microsoft decided that the name was memorable, short, and easy to spell, and that it would function well as a URL around the world. The word would remind people of the sound made during «the moment of discovery and decision making».[19] Microsoft was assisted by branding consultancy Interbrand in their search for the best name for the new search engine.[20] The name also has strong similarity to the word bingo, which is used to mean that something sought has been found or realized, as is interjected when winning the game Bingo. Microsoft advertising strategist David Webster originally proposed the name «Bang» for the same reasons the name Bing was ultimately chosen (easy to spell, one syllable, and easy to remember). He noted, «It’s there, it’s an exclamation point […] It’s the opposite of a question mark.» This name was ultimately not chosen because it could not be properly used as a verb in the context of an internet search; Webster commented «Oh, ‘I banged it’ is very different than ‘I binged it'».[21]
Qi Lu, president of Microsoft Online Services, also announced that Bing’s official Chinese name is bì yìng (simplified Chinese: 必应; traditional Chinese: 必應), which literally means «very certain to respond» or «very certain to answer» in Chinese.[22]
While being tested internally by Microsoft employees, Bing’s codename was Kumo (くも),[23] which came from the Japanese word for spider (蜘蛛; くも, kumo) as well as cloud (雲; くも, kumo), referring to the manner in which search engines «spider» Internet resources to add them to their database, as well as cloud computing.
ChatGPT
On February 7, 2023, Microsoft announced a major overhaul to Bing, adding OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI to the search engine.[24]
Legal challenges
On July 31, 2009, The Laptop Company, Inc. stated in a press release that it would challenge Bing’s trademark application, alleging that Bing may cause confusion in the marketplace as Bing and their product BongoBing both do online product search.[25] Software company TeraByte Unlimited, which has a product called BootIt Next Generation (abbreviated to BING), also contended the trademark application on similar grounds, as did a Missouri-based design company called Bing! Information Design.[26]
Microsoft contended that claims challenging its trademark were without merit because these companies filed for U.S. federal trademark applications only after Microsoft filed for the Bing trademark in March 2009.[27]
Deal with Yahoo!
On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced that they had made a ten-year deal in which the Yahoo! search engine would be replaced by Bing, retaining the Yahoo! user interface. Yahoo! got to keep 88% of the revenue from all search ad sales on its site for the first five years of the deal, and have the right to sell advertising on some Microsoft sites.[28][29] All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners made the transition by early 2012.[6]
Features
Third-party integration
Facebook users have the option to share their searches with their Facebook friends using Facebook Connect.[30]
On June 10, 2013, Apple announced that it would be dropping Google as its web search engine in favor of Bing.[31] This feature is only integrated with iOS 7 and higher and for users with an iPhone 4S or higher as the feature is only integrated with Siri, Apple’s personal assistant.
Integration with Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 includes Bing «Smart Search» integration, which processes all queries submitted through the Windows Start Screen.[32]
Translator
Bing Translator is a user facing translation portal provided by Microsoft to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages. All translation pairs are powered by the Microsoft Translator, a statistical machine translation platform and web service, developed by Microsoft Research, as its backend translation software. Two transliteration pairs (between Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional)) are provided by Microsoft’s Windows International team.[33] As of September 2020, Bing Translator offers translations in 70 different language systems.[34]
Knowledge and Action Graph
In 2015 Microsoft announced its knowledge and action API to correspond with Google’s Knowledge graph with 1 billion instances and 20 billion related facts.[35]
Bing Predicts
The idea for a prediction engine was first suggested by Walter Sun, Development Manager for the Core Ranking team at Bing, when he noticed that school districts were more frequently searched before a major weather event in the area was forecasted, because searchers wanted to find out if a closing or delay was caused. He concluded that the time and location of major weather events could accurately be predicted without referring to a weather forecast by observing major increases in search frequency of school districts in the area. This inspired Bing to use its search data to infer outcomes of certain events, such as winners of reality shows.[36] Bing Predicts launched on April 21, 2014. The first reality shows to be featured on Bing Predicts were The Voice, American Idol, and Dancing with the Stars.[37]
The prediction accuracy for Bing Predicts is 80% for American Idol, and 85% for The Voice. Bing Predicts also predicts the outcomes of major political elections in the United States. Bing Predicts had 97% accuracy for the 2014 United States Senate elections, 96% accuracy for the 2014 United States House of Representatives elections, and an 89% accuracy for the 2014 United States gubernatorial elections. Bing Predicts also made predictions for the results of the 2016 United States presidential primaries.[38] It has also done predictions in sports, including a perfect 15 for 15 in the 2014 World Cup,[39] leading to positive press such as a Business Insider story on its successes[40] and a PC World article on how Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella did well in his March Madness bracket entry.[41]
In 2016, Bing Predicts failed to accurately predict the winner of the 2016 US presidential election, suggesting that Hillary Clinton would win by 81%.
International
Bing is available in many languages and has been localized for many countries.[42] Even if the language of the search and of the results are the same, Bing delivers substantially different results for different parts of the world.[43]
Webmaster services
Bing allows webmasters to manage the web crawling status of their own websites through Bing Webmaster Center. Users may also submit contents to Bing via the Bing Local Listing Center, which allows businesses to add business listings onto Bing Maps and Bing Local.
Mobile services
Bing Mobile allows users to conduct search queries on their mobile devices, either via the mobile browser or a downloadable mobile application.
Bing News
Bing News (previously Live Search News)[44] is a news aggregator powered by artificial intelligence.[45]
In August 2015 Microsoft announced that Bing News for mobile devices added algorithmic-deduced «smart labels» that essentially act as topic tags, allowing users to click through and explore possible relationships between different news stories. The feature emerged as a result from Microsoft research that found out about 60% of the people consume news by only reading headlines, rather than read the articles.[46] Other labels that have been deployed since then include publisher logos[47] and fact-check tags.
Software
Toolbars
The Bing Bar, a browser extension toolbar that replaced the MSN Toolbar, provides users with links to Bing and MSN content from within their web browser without needing to navigate away from a web page they are already on. The user can customize the theme and color scheme of the Bing Bar as well as choose which MSN content buttons to present within the user interface. Bing Bar also displays the current local weather forecast and stock market positions.[48]
The Bing Bar features integration with Microsoft Bing search engine. In addition to the traditional web search functions, Bing Bar also allows search on other Bing services such as Images, Video, News and Maps. When users perform a search on another search engine, the Bing Bar’s search box will automatically populate itself, allowing the user to view the results from Bing, should it be desired.
Bing Bar also links to Outlook.com, Skype and Facebook.[49]
Desktop
Microsoft released a beta version of Bing Desktop, a program developed to allow users to search Bing from the desktop, on April 4, 2012.[50] The initial release followed shortly on April 24, 2012, supporting Windows 7 only.[51] With the release of version 1.1 in December 2012 it supported Windows XP and higher.[52]
Bing Desktop allows users to initiate a web search from the desktop, view news headlines, automatically set their background to the Bing homepage image, or choose a background from the previous nine background images.[53]
A similar program, the Bing Search gadget, was a Windows Sidebar Gadget that used Bing to fetch the user’s search results and render them directly in the gadget. Another gadget, the Bing Maps gadget, displayed real-time traffic conditions using Bing Maps.[54] The gadget provided shortcuts to driving directions, local search and full-screen traffic view of major US and Canadian cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Montreal, New York City, Oklahoma City, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C.
Prior to October 30, 2007, the gadgets were known as Live Search gadget and Live Search Maps gadget; both gadgets were removed from Windows Live Gallery due to possible security concerns.[55] The Live Search Maps gadget was made available for download again on January 24, 2008 with the security concern addressed.[56] However around the introduction of Bing in June 2009 both gadgets have been removed again for download from Windows Live Gallery.
Before the launch of Bing, the market share of Microsoft web search pages (MSN and Live search) had been small. By January 2011, Experian Hitwise show that Bing’s market share had increased to 12.8% at the expense of Yahoo! and Google. In the same period, comScore’s «2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review» report showed that «Bing was the big gainer in year-over-year search activity, picking up 29% more searches in 2010 than it did in 2009».[57] The Wall Street Journal notes the 1% jump in share «appeared to come at the expense of rival Google Inc».[58] In February 2011, Bing beat Yahoo! for the first time with 4.37% search share while Yahoo! received 3.93%.[59]
Counting core searches only, i.e., those where the user has an intent to interact with the search result, Bing had a market share of 14.54% in the second quarter of 2011 in the United States.[30][60][61][62]
The combined «Bing Powered» U.S. searches declined from 26.5% in 2011 to 25.9% in April 2012.[63] By November 2015, its market share had declined further to 20.9%.[64] As of October 2018, Bing is the third largest search engine in the US, with a query volume of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) and Baidu (14.45%). Yahoo! Search, which Bing largely powers, has 2.63%.
UK advertising agencies point to a study by Microsoft’s Regional Sales Director suggesting the demographic of Bing users is older people (who are less likely to change the default browser of Windows), and that this audience is wealthier and more likely to respond to advertisements.[65]
To counter EU accusations that it is trying to establish a market monopoly, in September 2021, Google’s lawyers claimed that one of the most commonly searched words on Microsoft Bing was Google, which is a strong indication that Google is superior to Bing.[66][67]
Powered by
In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.[5] All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners made the transition by early 2012.[6] The deal was altered in 2015, meaning Yahoo! was only required to use Bing for a «majority» of searches.[11]
DuckDuckGo uses multiple sources for its search engine, including Bing, since 2010.[68][69][70]
Ecosia uses Bing to provide its search results since 2017.[71]
Marketing and advertisements
Live Search
Since 2006, Microsoft had conducted a number of tie-ins and promotions for promoting Microsoft’s search offerings. These include:
- Amazon’s A9 search service and the experimental Ms. Dewey interactive search site syndicated all search results from Microsoft’s then search engine, Live Search. This tie-in started on May 1, 2006.
- Search and Give – a promotional website launched on January 17, 2007 where all searches done from a special portal site would lead to a donation to the UNHCR’s organization for refugee children, ninemillion.org. Reuters AlertNet reported in 2007 that the amount to be donated would be $0.01 per search, with a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $250,000 (equivalent to 25 million searches).[72] According to the website the service was decommissioned on June 1, 2009, having donated over $500,000 to charity and schools.[73]
- Club Bing – a promotional website where users can win prizes by playing word games that generate search queries on Microsoft’s then search service Live Search. This website began in April 2007 as Live Search Club.
- Big Snap Search – a promotional website similar to Live Search Club. This website began in February 2008, but was discontinued shortly after.[74]
- Live Search SearchPerks! — a promotional website which allowed users to redeem tickets for prizes while using Microsoft’s search engine. This website began on October 1, 2008 and was decommissioned on April 15, 2009.
Debut
Bing’s debut featured an $80 to $100 million online, TV, print, and radio advertising campaign in the US. The advertisements do not mention other search engine competitors, such as Google and Yahoo!, directly by name; rather, they attempt to convince users to switch to Bing by focusing on Bing’s search features and functionality.[75] The ads claim that Bing does a better job countering «search overload».[76]
«Decision engine»
Bing has been heavily advertised as a «decision engine»,[77] though thought by columnist David Berkowitz to be more closely related to a web portal.[78]
Bing Rewards
Bing Rewards was a loyalty program launched by Microsoft in September 2010. It was similar to two earlier services, SearchPerks! and Bing Cashback, which were subsequently discontinued.
Bing Rewards provided credits to users through regular Bing searches and special promotions.[79] These credits were then redeemed for various products including electronics, gift cards, sweepstakes, and charitable donations.[80] Initially, participants were required to download and use the Bing Bar for Internet Explorer in order to earn credits; but later the service was made to work with all desktop browsers.[81]
The Bing Rewards program was rebranded as «Microsoft Rewards» in 2016,[82] at which point it was modified to only two levels, Level 1 and Level 2. Level 1 is similar to «Member», and Level 2 is similar to «Gold» of the previous Bing Rewards.
The Colbert Report
During the episode of The Colbert Report that aired on June 8, 2010, Stephen Colbert stated that Microsoft would donate $2,500 to help clean up the Gulf oil spill each time he mentioned the word «Bing» on air. Colbert mostly mentioned Bing in out-of-context situations, such as Bing Crosby and Bing cherries. By the end of the show, Colbert had said the word 40 times, for a total donation of $100,000. Colbert poked fun at their rivalry with Google, stating «Bing is a great website for doing Internet searches. I know that, because I Googled it.»[83][84]
Search deals
Bing was added into the list of search engines available in Opera browser from v10.6, but Google remained the default search engine.[85] Mozilla Firefox made a deal with Microsoft to jointly release «Firefox with Bing»,[86] an edition of Firefox where Bing has replaced Google as the default search engine.[87][88] The standard edition of Firefox has Google as its default search engine, but has included Bing in its list of search providers since Firefox version 4.0.[89]
In addition, Microsoft paid Verizon Wireless US$550 million[90] to use Bing as the default search provider on Verizon’s BlackBerry and have Verizon «turn off» (via BlackBerry service books) the other search providers available. Users could still access other search engines via the mobile browser.[91]
Bing It On
In 2012, a Bing marketing campaign asked the public which search engine they believed was better when its results were presented without branding, similar to the Pepsi Challenge in the 1970s.[92][93] This poll was nicknamed «Bing It On».[94][95] Microsoft presented a study of almost 1,000 people[96] which showed that 57% of participants in such a test preferred Bing’s results, with only 30% preferring Google.[97]
Adult content
Bing censors results for «adult» search terms for some regions, including India, People’s Republic of China, Germany and Arab countries[98] where required by local laws.[99] However, Bing allows users to change their country or region preference to somewhere without restrictions, such as the United States, United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland.
Notice reading «Your country or region requires a strict Bing SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult content. If you’re seeing adult content, tell us about it so we can filter it in the future. To learn more about SafeSearch requirements in your country or region, see How Bing delivers search results.»
Criticism
Censorship
Microsoft has been criticized for censoring Bing search results to queries made in simplified Chinese characters which are used in mainland China. This is done to comply with the censorship requirements of the government in China.[100] Microsoft has not indicated a willingness to stop censoring search results in simplified Chinese characters in the wake of Google’s decision to do so.[101] All simplified Chinese searches in Bing are censored regardless of the user’s country.[102][103] The English-language search results of Bing in China has been skewed to show more content from state-run media like Xinhua News Agency and China Daily.[104] On 23 January 2019, Bing was blocked in China.[105] According to a source quoted by The Financial Times, the order was from the Chinese government to block Bing for «illegal content».[106] On 24 January, Bing was accessible again in China.[107]
Around 4 June 2021, the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Bing blocked image and video search results for the English term «Tank Man» in the US, UK, France, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, and other countries. Microsoft responded that «This is due to an accidental human error».[108][109]
In December 2021, it was required by a «relevant government agency» to suspend its auto-suggest function in China for 30 days.[110] The search engine became partially unavailable in mainland China from 16 December until its resumption on 18 December 2021.[111][112] According to the company, a government agency in March 2022 required that it suspend auto-suggest function in China for seven days; Bing did not specify the reason.[113] In May 2022, a report released by the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto found that Bing’s autosuggestion system censored the names of Chinese Communist Party leaders, dissidents, and other persons considered politically sensitive in China in both Chinese and English, not only in China but also in United States and Canada.[114][115]
Copyright-infringing content
On February 20, 2017, Bing agreed to a voluntary United Kingdom code of practice obligating it to demote links to copyright-infringing content in its search results.[116][117]
Performance issues
Bing has been criticized for being slower to index websites than Google. It has also been criticized for not indexing some websites at all.[118][119]
Allegedly copying Google’s results
Bing has been criticized by competitor Google for utilizing user input via Internet Explorer, the Bing Toolbar, or Suggested Sites, to add results to Bing. After discovering in October 2010 that Bing appeared to be imitating Google’s auto-correct results for a misspelling, despite not actually fixing the spelling of the term, Google set up a honeypot, configuring the Google search engine to return specific unrelated results for 100 nonsensical queries such as hiybbprqag.[120] Over the next couple of weeks, Google engineers entered the search term into Google, while using Microsoft Internet Explorer, with the Bing Toolbar installed and the optional Suggested Sites enabled. In 9 out of the 100 queries, Bing later started returning the same results as Google, despite the only apparent connection between the result and search term being that Google’s results connected the two.[121][122]
Microsoft’s response to this issue, coming from a company spokesperson, was: «We do not copy Google’s results.» Bing’s Vice President, Harry Shum, later reiterated that the search result data Google claimed that Bing copied had in fact come from Bing’s very own users. Shum wrote that «we use over 1,000 different signals and features in our ranking algorithm. A small piece of that is clickstream data we get from some of our customers, who opt into sharing anonymous data as they navigate the web in order to help us improve the experience for all users.»
[123]
Microsoft stated that Bing was not intended to be a duplicate of any existing search engines.[124]
Child pornography
A study released in 2019 of Bing Image search showed that it both freely offered up images that had been tagged as illegal child pornography in national databases, as well as automatically suggesting via its auto-completion feature queries related to child pornography. This easy accessibility was considered particularly surprising since Microsoft pioneered PhotoDNA, the main technology used for tracking images reported as originating from child pornography.[125] Additionally, some arrested child pornographers reported using Bing as their main search engine for new content.[126] Microsoft vowed to fix the problem and assign additional staff to combat the issue after the report was released.
Privacy
In 2022, France imposed a €60 million fine on Microsoft for privacy law violations using Bing cookies that prevented users rejecting those cookies.[127][128][129]
See also
- List of search engines by popularity
- Comparison of web search engines
- List of search engines
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Программа Bing Bar представляет собой панель инструментов для браузеров Internet Explorer и Firefox, которая располагается под строкой поиска. Может быть установлена как умышленно, так и случайным образом.
Программа Bing Bar является разработкой Microcoff. Обладает панелью инструментов для поисковой машины Bing, которая встроена в браузер Internet Explorer. Bing Bar устанавливается в виде дополнений к браузерам.
Содержание
- Описание программного обеспечения
- Как установить Bing Bar на Windows?
- Как скачать на Windows?
- Как удалить на Windows?
Описание программного обеспечения
Особенности программы:
- Через программу осуществляется мгновенный переход к почте;
- В панели показывается температура воздуха, также можно посмотреть погоду на всю неделю;
- Поиск нужной информации происходить только при помощи поисковой системы Бинг;
- Быстрый доступ к музыке и видео;
- В программе встроена блокировка рекламы;
- Возможность настроить необходимые вкладки.
Программа выполняет следующие функции:
- Обеспечивает быстрый доступ к Microcoff;
- Осуществляется предварительный просмотр результатов поиска;
- Наличие кнопок для быстрого доступа к необходимым ресурсам;
- Отслеживание погоды, курса валют;
- Интеграция с Facebook и Skype;
- Мгновенный поиск информации, так как информацию можно искать в окне панели;
- Содержит интерактивные карты, которые позволяют отследить ситуацию на дорогах;
- Настройка панелей инструментов, кнопок;
- Получение информации, уведомлений, новостей;
- Обеспечивает защиту от вирусов и блокировку баннеров.
Помимо традиционного поиска в сети Интернет, панель управления дает возможность осуществлять поиск на других Bing службах. В данной программе выражается главное требование современных пользователей – это мобильность программы. Небольшая по объему, не перегружает систему различными процессами. Позволяет настроить панель инструментов, добавлять или удалять нужные кнопки. Bing Bar предусматривает безопасный и быстрый вход в аккаунт.
Bing Bar полезна для тех, кто пользуется основными сервисами Microcoff, браузерами Internet Explorer, а также производит поиск информации через Bing.
Вам обязательно стоит прочитать о том, для чего используется программа reimage repair.
Как установить Bing Bar на Windows?
При установке основных программ часто в комплексе с ними происходит установка второстепенных. Собственная система безопасности помогает защитить компьютер от установок других программ. После установки программного обеспечения положительными чертами являются:
- Мгновенный поиск информации;
- Доступная и актуальная информация
- Быстрый доступ к заголовкам новостей;
- Мгновенный доступ к Facebook и возможность общаться в чате, не открывая новой вкладки;
- Наличие переводчика с наиболее качественным перевод, чем в других поисковых системах;
- В один клик оказываться на любых сайтах.
Установка происходит в четыре шага:
- Необходимо запустить Internet Explorer и скачать Bing Bar с официального сайта;
- Отрыть скаченный и файл и начать установку на компьютер;
- Далее вспыхнет окно, в котором будет сообщение об успешной установке и готовности работать, далее необходимо щелкнуть по ней и нажать включить;
- Следующим шагом необходимо перезапустить браузер.
При умелом пользовании программы можно увеличить эффективность работы в интернете и сэкономить время.
При пользовании на панели управления присутствуют значки, которые направляют на разные ресурсы. Если навести на значки мышью, они показывают название функций, которые выполняют. При поиске информации необходимо в строку поиска ввести ключевое слово. Можно настроить панель, добавив нужные значки или убрав их.
Bing Bar является второстепенной программой, которая устанавливается в виде дополнений к браузерам. Идет в комплекте с такими программами, как Skype, DirectX и устанавливается автоматически.
Как скачать на Windows?
Для скачивания необходимо:
- Зайти в Пуск – Панель управления – Центр обновления Windows;
- Потом необходимо нажать на кнопку для проверки обновлений;
- При доступности нового обновления нужно нажать – Установить обновления.
Также скачать программу можно с официального сайта. На официальном сайте – bingtoolbar.com скачивание происходит бесплатно. Наводя курсором на изображение можно посмотреть, как Bing Bar работает в интернете.
Алгоритм загрузки бесплатно через официальный сайт:
- Зайти на сайт;
- Необходимо нажать на загрузку, при этом соглашаясь на условия использования;
- Далее необходимо следовать появившимся требованиям;
- Начинается скачивание двух файлов;
- Необходимо перейти к загруженным файлам;
- Запускаем файл, и мастер установки начнет устанавливать программное обеспечение;
- Следует перезагрузить браузер и начать пользоваться установленным программным обеспечением.
Как удалить на Windows?
Bing Bar не представляет угрозы для вашего компьютера. Из-за нежелания пользоваться программой Bing Bar, ее можно удалить, а также можно просто отключить.
При отключении необходимо:
- Зайти в интернет-браузер;
- Выбрать Инструменты – Управление надстройками – Панели инструментов;
- Выбрать – отключить.
Удаление может происходить из меню пуска: из
- Зайти в Меню пуска – Панель управления;
- Открыть Удаление программ;
- И далее выбрать Bing Bar и удалить.
Существуют условия, которые необходимые для установки Bing Bar:
- Наличия Windows XP с установленным Windows 7;
- Наличие процессора 500 MHz;
- Объем оперативной памяти должен быть от 512 мб и выше;
- Необходимо 50 мб сводного места на компьютере.