Bing

Bing Brazil has officially kicked off “Na área,” a project to bring communities in that country together to highlight tourist attractions, landmarks, hotels and other points of interest, starting with pilot programs in the Vidigal, Complexo de Maré and Manguinhos favelas – informal settlements that combined are home to 200,000 people. The results are already showing up on local searches.

For general questions, Bing’s Help & How To section houses Webmaster Guidelines and deeper dives on how to use tools. For deeper conversations, the Webmaster Blog will continue to publish weekly, and you can comment on those topics.

For instance, if you want to find out who discovered aspirin, or the risks associated with it, or its chemical formula, a search yields a quick rundown of a given drug directly within the Snapshot frame. Or, what if you’re looking for the number of calories in a banana, or how much vitamin C and magnesium it has? Bing now displays nutritional information for common foods directly in the Snapshot experience – like you’d find on the side of a box.

The latest update to Bing Desktop makes it easier to customize and share your favorite home page images. Now instead of having your wallpaper automatically synced to the Bing home page-of-the-day, you have the option to set the categories you want to sync and the frequency with which they change.