Recently I realized that Bing also has started to offer Sitemap functionality to let webmasters easily give a heads up to the search engine. Apparently Yahoo also has started to redirect webmasters to Bing Webmaster Tools after the transition to use Bing services. I got excited and submitted the whole list of my sitemaps via Bing Webmaster Tools, but.. After a week the statuses of all files were still “Pending”. Thinking that it should not take that long and googling around a while, this forum page says it all. There is a problem with Bing sitemap functionality and there is still no ETA for a fix. Come on Microsoft guys, it should not be that hard to overcome such a problem. Put the files in a queue, download’em, parse’em and use that valuable data. Is it that hard to implement a fix in the next release? Does anybody know what is the average release cycle duration at Microsoft?
Programming bing, bing bug, microsoft, sitemaps
In a few days Microsoft will make Bing online, which they call a decision engine. It looks good and I hope that it will give precise results to make you decide on which thousand dollar camera to buy. I am very comfortable with Google and though I use it everyday and find the right thing in a few clicks it is great to see some other people looking at different points of view. I believe that there is still much to be done about search engine tech, let’s see what happens next.
http://www.bing.com
Internet microsoft, search engine
Right after Blackberry AppWorld and Nokia OVI Store, Windows Mobile Marketplace opens its doors to developers. I hope MS enables developers to publish their programs more freely, not like Apple.
Windows Mobile Marketplace
PS: Don’t think that I hate Apple. I use an IPod Touch everyday, but not a fan of Apple so much.
Programming microsoft, mobile, mobile marketplace, windows mobile
