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One Tree Hill (season 3)
One Tree Hill Season 3 DVD cover
Country of origin
United States
No. of episodes
22
Release
Original network
The WB
Original release
October 5, 2005 (2005-10-05) – May 3, 2006 (2006-05-03)
Season chronology
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Season 2
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Season 4
List of One Tree Hill episodes
The third season of One Tree Hill, an American teen drama television series, began airing on October 5, 2005. The season concluded on May 3, 2006, after 22 episodes. It is the final season that aired on The WB television network. Season three dipped in ratings, averaging 2.8 million viewers weekly.[1]
Contents
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1 Overview
2 Cast and characters
2.1 Regular
2.2 Recurring
2.3 Guest Cast
3 Episodes
4 Ratings
5 DVD release
6 References
Overview[edit]
This season focuses on the first half of senior year at Tree Hill High School. Starting three months after the second season finale, Haley returns to Tree Hill and tries to save her marriage with Nathan. Peyton gets to know her birth mother. Lucas and Brooke begin a relationship. Keith and Karen get engaged. Nathan patches things up with Lucas, while Mouth begins a complicated relationship with newcomer Rachel, who also spreads a lot of drama through the core characters. After a shooting at the school things between Lucas and Peyton heat up despite Peyton's proposal to Jake.
Cast and characters[edit]
See also: List of One Tree Hill characters
Regular[edit]
Chad Michael Murray as Lucas Scott (21 episodes)
James Lafferty as Nathan Scott (22 episodes)
Hilarie Burton as Peyton Sawyer (22 episodes)
Bethany Joy Galeotti as Haley James Scott (22 episodes)
Paul Johansson as Dan Scott (20 episodes)
Sophia Bush as Brooke Davis (22 episodes)
Barbara Alyn Woods as Deb Scott (13 episodes)
Lee Norris as Mouth McFadden (18 episodes)
Barry Corbin as Whitey Durham (12 episodes)
Craig Sheffer as Keith Scott (13 episodes)
Moira Kelly as Karen Roe (20 episodes)
Recurring[edit]
Danneel Harris as Rachel Gatina (19 episodes)
Bevin Prince as Bevin Mirskey (16 episodes)
Tyler Hilton as Chris Keller (12 episodes)
Sheryl Lee as Ellie Harp (8 episodes)
Vaughn Wilson as Fergie Thompson (7 episodes)
Antwon Tanner as Antwon "Skills" Taylor (7 episodes)
Cullen Moss as Junk Moretti (6 episodes)
Kevin Kilner as Larry Sawyer (6 episodes)
Brett Claywell as Tim Smith (5 episodes)
Kelsey Chow as Gigi Silveri (5 episodes)
Shawn Shepard as Principal Turner (4 episodes)
Guest Cast[edit]
Michael Trucco as Cooper Lee (3 episodes)
Bryan Greenberg as Jake Jagielski (3 episodes
Colin Fickes as Jimmy Edwards (2 episodes)
Amber Wallace as Glenda Farrell (1 episode)
Allison Scagliotti as Abigail "Abby" Brown (1 episode)
Episodes[edit]
See also: List of One Tree Hill episodes
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)
46
1 "Like You Like an Arsonist" Greg Prange Mark Schwahn October 5, 2005 (2005-10-05) 2T6151 3.46[3]
In the third season premiere, we finally discover Dan's fate after the fire. In addition to the situation with his father, Nathan also has to deal with Haley's reappearance in Tree Hill and the future of their relationship. Peyton tries to find the truth about the mysterious woman claiming to be her mother. Lucas looks forward to Brooke's return after a summer apart.[2]
This episode is named after a song by Paris, Texas.
47
2 "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea" Kevin Dowling Mark Schwahn October 12, 2005 (2005-10-12) 2T6152 3.12[4]
Brooke has an end of the summer party on the beach. Nathan is home from basketball camp. Lucas deals with Brooke's rules for non-exclusive dating. Brooke ends up having a ball with many guys whereas Lucas spends the night alone and then tells Brooke that he is the one for her, which marks the beginning of his mission to become exclusive. Peyton deals with family issues, by confronting her mom about her drug problem, after Lucas witnesses her buying. Haley tries to tell Nathan how she feels, however he is not ready for a relationship yet and is still angry with her.
This episode is named after a song by The Cure.
48
3 "First Day on a Brand New Planet" Billy Dickson Terrence Coli October 19, 2005 (2005-10-19) 2T6153 3.12[5]
It's the first day of senior year for the Tree Hill gang. Lucas tells Dan he saved his life. Peyton discovers Ellie's secret. Nathan tells Haley he's considering a divorce. Dan accuses several people of starting the dealership fire and tries to get Whitey replaced as Ravens coach.
This episode is named after a song by the band Jesse James.
49
4 "An Attempt to Tip the Scales" Janice Cooke Stacy Rukeyser October 26, 2005 (2005-10-26) 2T6154 3.36[6]
It's Halloween in Tree Hill and everybody's celebrating at TRIC, with special guest band Fall Out Boy. The masquerade ball gives Haley the chance to win Nathan back, while Lucas keeps trying to convince Brooke to be exclusive. Peyton decides to face her new mother and get to know her. Dan tries to use blackmail to become mayor but things don't turn out the way he thought they would when Deb gets in his way.
This episode is named after a song by Bright Eyes.
50
5 "A Multitude of Casualties" Thomas J. Wright R. Lee Fleming, Jr November 2, 2005 (2005-11-02) 2T6155 3.03[7]
The Ravens begin basketball practice. New team captain Nathan clashes with Lucas over Haley, and a new cheerleader named Rachel Gatina sets her sights on Lucas. Dan's mayoral bid takes a surprising turn when an unlikely opponent emerges in Karen.
This episode is named after a song by The Hold Steady.
51
6 "Locked Hearts & Hand Grenades" Marita Grabiak James Stoteraux and Chad Fiveash November 9, 2005 (2005-11-09) 2T6156 3.42[8]
Brooke starts a "Fantasy Boy Draft", after the cheerleaders start fighting over the same guys. Haley and Peyton continue to argue about Nathan. Dan butts heads with Karen as the election draws nearer. Lucas tries to keep up with the fast pace of basketball.
This episode is named after a song by Plan A Project.
52
7 "Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends" Paul Johansson Mark Schwahn November 16, 2005 (2005-11-16) 2T6157 3.52[9]
The fantasy draft dates begin, Lucas finds himself with Rachel and a very familiar setting. Brooke is on a double date with a surprising person and a surprising couple. Skills goes to Bevin's house for the night, but isn't quite interested in what she has in mind. Mouth and Peyton hang out. Karen and Deb take the campaigning for mayor to a new level, to bring down Dan. Nathan gets mad when Chris gets close to Haley.
This episode is named after a song by Fall Out Boy.
53
8 "The Worst Day Since Yesterday" John Asher Mike Herro & David Strauss November 30, 2005 (2005-11-30) 2T6158 3.41[8]
As the town readies for the Ravens’ first basketball game, Lucas worries that his head and heart aren't in it. Nathan accuses Lucas of being the Ravens' weak link. Peyton and Haley mend fences to support Brooke in her time of need. When the mayoral race tightens, Dan resorts to a smear campaign.
This episode is named after a song by Flogging Molly.
54
9 "How a Resurrection Really Feels" Greg Prange Mark Schwahn December 7, 2005 (2005-12-07) 2T6159 3.33[10]
It is revealed that Lucas knows who tried to kill Dan and he confronts the guilty party. Brooke, Peyton and Haley find themselves behind bars. Peyton is annoyed by the presence of her guilty conscience. Chris Keller convinces Nathan to be his wingman at a cash poker game. The residents of Tree Hill finally choose a mayor.
This episode is named after a song by The Hold Steady.
55
10 "Brave New World" John Asher John A. Norris January 11, 2006 (2006-01-11) 2T6160 3.23[11]
Lucas and Peyton take a road trip together to find Ellie. While out of town, Lucas reconnects with a friend from the past. Brooke, Haley and Mouth successfully launch the Clothes Over Bro's website, only to find that demand far exceeds supply. Deb reveals to Nathan that she tried to kill Dan. Nathan and Haley finally get back together.
This episode is named after a song by Iron Maiden from the album of the same name.
56
11 "Return of the Future" Bethany Rooney Terrence Coli January 18, 2006 (2006-01-18) 2T6161 2.67[12]
The Ravens lose their second game in a row, Whitey decides to teach them a tough lesson. Peyton and Ellie look for support for their album and hope to attract Nada Surf to the project. Both Dan and Haley upset Nathan, while Brooke plans a romantic thank-you for Lucas.
This episode is named after a song by Scooter.
57
12 "I've Got Dreams to Remember" Stuart Gillard Mike Herro & David Strauss January 25, 2006 (2006-01-25) 2T6162 2.70[13]
As the students meet with the school counselor to plan for the future, Nathan and Haley realize they want to attend colleges across the country from one another. Brooke discovers Rachel's reasons for submitting her designs to Rogue Vogue. Meanwhile, Ellie and Peyton bond as they finish the benefit album.
This episode is named after a song by Otis Redding.
58
13 "The Wind That Blew My Heart Away" David Jackson Stacy Rukeyser February 1, 2006 (2006-02-01) 2T6163 3.01[14]
A violent rainstorm knocks out the power in Tree Hill, leading Haley to Nathan's doorstep and Brooke out into the downpour for a dramatic confrontation with Lucas. Peyton finally confronts the truth about Ellie's illness. Mouth is tempted by his new friend, Rachel. Before morning, secrets are revealed, relationships are tested and romance heats up.
This episode is named after a song by Fruit Bats.
59
14 "All Tomorrow's Parties" David Paymer Anna Lotto February 8, 2006 (2006-02-08) 2T6164 2.89[15]
Brooke is forced to grow up in a hurry when her trip to a New York City fashion show prevents her from attending an annual cheerleading tournament. Nathan and Lucas are influenced by the father of a friend. Skills tells Bevin he can't swim to trick her into giving him a swimming lesson. Struggling with her birth mother's cancer, Peyton joins Rachel for a night of blowing off steam. Haley and Nathan use their hotel room as the honeymoon suite they never had.
This episode is named after a song by The Velvet Underground and Nico.
60
15 "Just Watch the Fireworks" Billy Dickson James Stoteraux & Chad Fiveash February 15, 2006 (2006-02-15) 2T6165 2.85[16]
When someone unleashes the students' time capsule on Tree Hill High, Lucas and Mouth must confront a person from their past. Brooke deals with the revelation that secrets aren't the only things she exposed in the time capsule. Dan tries to forgive Keith. Haley is forced to reconcile the man Nathan was before with the man he has become. Peyton's Breast Cancer Benefit Concert at TRIC features performances by Haley and Jack's Mannequin and the return of Fall Out Boy.
This episode is named after a song by Jimmy Eat World.
61
16 "With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept" Greg Prange Mark Schwahn March 1, 2006 (2006-03-01) 2T6166 3.36[17]
In the aftermath of the release of the time capsule, chaos breaks out, Jimmy Edwards holds students of Tree Hill High School hostage with a gun. While lives hang in the balance, Nathan and Lucas put themselves at risk to protect their friends and loved ones. Young lives are shattered and two will end. Dan takes revenge on a close relative.
This episode is named after a song by Explosions in the Sky.
62
17 "Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them" John Asher Mark Schwahn March 29, 2006 (2006-03-29) 2T6167 2.82[18]
The aftermath of the school shooting and the death of Jimmy Edwards force everyone in Tree Hill to examine their lives. Nathan reassesses his relationship with Haley, while Brooke and Rachel join forces to heal the student body. Dan must deal with the ramifications of killing Keith. Lucas and Peyton consider the implications of their kiss in the library.
This episode is named after an album by Murder by Death. The title is also the tagline of the 1974 horror movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
63
18 "When It Isn't Like It Should Be" Paul Johansson R. Lee Fleming, Jr. April 5, 2006 (2006-04-05) 2T6168 2.93[19]
Rachel invites the gang for a weekend getaway at her family's cabin. Craziness will ensue, including a game of "I Never" which will cause people to do things they normally wouldn't. A nasty little issue Mouth has been harboring toward Rachel will surface. Meanwhile, Karen confronts Dan about Keith's death.
This episode is named after a song by Saves the Day.
64
19 "I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me" Moira Kelly William H. Brown April 12, 2006 (2006-04-12) 2T6169 2.76[20]
Lucas attempts to play in the first game after Keith's death, but he cannot bring himself to do it. After seeing Lucas's pain, Nathan asks Whitey to forfeit the game. Lucas finally tells Whitey, Nathan, and Karen about his heart condition (HCM) after Deb convinces him to be there for Karen after Keith's death. Nathan and Haley prepare to renew their vows. Mouth tries to get closer to Rachel. Peyton gets an invitation to go to Chicago, from Pete. Brooke gets revenge on Rachael, by making posters of Rachael who got multiple surgeries to become attractive, because she was obese when she was 14.
This episode is named after a song by Fall Out Boy.
65
20 "Everyday Is a Sunday Evening" Billy Dickson Mark Schwahn April 19, 2006 (2006-04-19) 2T6170 2.67[21]
Nathan deals with a player who is a rival both on and off the court. Dan is given a restraining order from Deb and Nathan. Brooke and Mouth look to get even with Rachel, who has tricked Cooper into thinking she is 26 and a model. Dan has a run-in with Cooper. Peyton makes a major decision and goes to see Jake and Jenny who are in Savannah. At the end of the episode Peyton asks Jake to marry her.
This episode is named after an album by The Blackouts.
66
21 "Over the Hills and Far Away" Thomas J. Wright Mark Schwahn April 26, 2006 (2006-04-26) 2T6171 2.87[22]
Haley argues with Brooke about her wedding dress. Brooke plans an engagement party for Nathan and Haley. Karen and Lucas get back in town. Peyton is surprised by her own feelings when she mumble she loves Lucas in her sleep and Jake overhears.
This episode is named after a song by Led Zeppelin and another by Gary Moore which was covered by Nightwish.
67
22 "The Show Must Go On" Mark Schwahn Mark Schwahn May 3, 2006 (2006-05-03) 2T6172 3.06[23]
Nathan worries about Haley as they prepare to renew their vows. Deb confesses to Dan about the fire. Peyton and Brooke's friendship becomes strained when Peyton confesses she still loves Lucas. Nathan, Cooper and Rachel's lives hang in the balance after a car accident. Someone might be pregnant.
This episode is named after a song by Queen.
Ratings[edit]
Season
Timeslot
Season premiere
Season finale
TV season
Rank
Viewers
(in millions)
3rd
Wednesday 8/7C
October 5, 2005 May 3, 2006 2005–2006
#137
2.8[1]
DVD release[edit]
The DVD release of season three was released after the season has completed broadcast on television. It has been released in Regions 1, 2 and 4. As well as every episode from the season, the DVD release features bonus material such as audio commentaries on some episodes from the creator and cast, deleted scenes, gag reels and behind-the-scenes featurettes.
The Complete Third Season
Set details[24] Special features[24]
22 episodes
937 minutes (Region 1);[25] 968 minutes (Region 2);[26] 900 minutes (Region 4) [27]
6-disc set
1.78:1 aspect ratio
Languages:
English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Subtitles:
Spanish and French (Region 1)
English, Danish, Finnish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, English for the Hearing Impaired (Regions 2 and 4) [27]
Audio commentaries:
"With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept" - with creator/executive producer/writer Mark Schwahn, executive producer Joe Davola, actors Colin Fickes, Sophia Bush, Lee Norris and music supervisor Lindsey Wolfington
"The Show Must Go On" - with creator/executive producer/writer/director Mark Schwahn, executive producer Joe Davola, actors Sophia Bush and Lee Norris
Deleted scenes:
Episodes: 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20 & 22
"Anatomy of an Episode: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Creation of "With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept"
Gag reel
Release dates
United States United Kingdom Australia
September 26, 2006[24] October 23, 2006[26] July 4, 2007[27]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Hollywood Reporter: 2005-06 primetime wrap". Hollywood Reporter. May 26, 2006. Archived from the original on January 14, 2007.
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Season 6
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Season 9
Characters
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Lucas Scott
Nathan Scott
Peyton Sawyer
Haley James Scott
Dan Scott
Brooke Davis
Whitey Durham
Keith Scott
Karen Roe
Deb Lee
Mouth McFadden
Skills Taylor
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Millicent Huxtable
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Alex Dupre
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Victoria Davis
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Episodes
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"4 Years, 6 Months, 2 Days"
"Hundred"
"Remember Me as a Time of Day"
"Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said the Last Time I Saw You"
"Darkness on the Edge of Town"
"This is My House, This is My Home"
"Last Known Surroundings"
"Danny Boy"
"One Tree Hill"
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"I Don't Want to Be"
Tree Hill, North Carolina
Clothes Over Bro's
Red Bedroom Records
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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 1, 2009.[3] 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,[4] which Microsoft had acquired in 2008.[5]
In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.[6] All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners made the transition by early 2012.[7] The deal was altered in 2015, meaning Yahoo! was only required to use Bing for a "majority" of searches.[8]
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.[9] 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.[10]
As of November 2015[update], Bing is the second largest desktop search engine in the US, with a query volume of 20.9%, behind Google on 63.9%. Yahoo! Search, which Bing largely powers, has 12.5%.[11]
Contents
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1 History
1.1 MSN Search
1.2 Windows Live Search
1.3 Live Search
1.4 Rebrand as Bing
1.5 Legal challenges
1.6 Yahoo! search deal
2 Features
2.1 Interface features
2.2 Media features
2.3 Instant answers
2.4 Local info
2.5 Third-party integration
2.6 Integration with Windows 8
2.7 Translator
3 International
3.1 Languages in which Bing can find results
3.2 Languages in which Bing can be displayed
4 Search products
4.1 Webmaster services
4.2 Mobile services
4.3 Developer services
5 Software
5.1 Toolbars
5.2 Desktop
6 Market share
7 Marketing and advertisements
7.1 Live Search
7.2 Debut
7.3 "Decision engine"
7.4 Bing Rewards
7.5 The Colbert Report
7.6 Search deals
7.7 Bing It On
8 Adult content
9 Criticism
9.1 Censorship
9.2 Performance issues
9.3 Allegedly copying Google's results
10 See also
11 References
12 Further reading
13 External links
History
MSN Search
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. Since then Microsoft upgraded MSN Search to provide its own self-built search engine results, 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. 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.[12]
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.[13]
A series of reorganisations 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 reorganisation came as Live Search QnA was rebranded as MSN QnA on February 18, 2009, however, it was subsequently discontinued on May 21, 2009.[14]
Rebrand as Bing
First Bing logo used until September 2013
Second Bing logo used from 2013 until 2016
Microsoft recognised that there would be a problem with branding as long as the word "Live" remained in the name.[15] As an effort to create a new identity for Microsoft's search services, Live Search was officially replaced by Bing on June 3, 2009.[16]
The Bing name was chosen through focus groups, and Microsoft decided that the name was memorable, short, 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."[17] Microsoft was assisted by branding consultancy Interbrand in their search for the best name for the new search engine.[18] 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'".[19]
According to the Guardian "[Microsoft] hasn't confirmed that it stands recursively for Bing Is Not Google, but that's the sort of joke software engineers enjoy."[20] 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.[21]
While being tested internally by Microsoft employees, Bing's codename was Kumo (くも),[22] 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.
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.[23] 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.[24]
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.[25]
Yahoo! search deal
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! will get 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.[26][27] All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners made the transition by early 2012.[7]
Features
Interface features
Daily changing of background image. The images are mostly of noteworthy places in the world, though it sometimes displays animals, people, and sports. The background image also contains information about the element(s) shown in the image
Video homepage for HTML5 enabled browsers on occasional events, similar to the daily background images
Images page shows the main picture from that day and four searches that refers to that image with three preview pictures per search term
Left side navigation pane. Includes navigation and, on results pages, related searches and prior searches
Right side extended preview which shows a bigger view of the page and gives URLs to links inside of the page
Sublinks – On certain search results, the search result page also shows section links within the article (this is also done on other search engines, including Google)
Enhanced view where third party site information can be viewed inside Bing
On certain sites, search from within the website on the results page
On certain sites, Bing will display the Customer Service number on the results page
Media features
Video thumbnail Preview – where, by hovering over a video thumbnail, the video automatically starts playing
Image search with continuous scrolling images results page that has adjustable settings for size, layout, color, style, and people[28]
Advanced filters or advanced (query) operators – allow users to refine search results based on properties such as image size, aspect ratio, color or black and white, photo or illustration, and facial features recognition
Video search with adjustable setting for length, screen size, resolution, and source
Instant answers
Sports – Bing can directly display scores from a specific day, recent scores from a league or scores and statistics on teams or players.
Finance – When entering a company name or stock symbol and either stock or quote in the search box Bing will show direct stock information like a stockchart, price, volume, and p/e ratio[29] in a webslice that users can subscribe to.
Conversion of units (e.g., 1 oz in tbs, 1 cup in oz)
Mathematical calculations – (e.g., 2 * pi * 24).[30] Users can enter mathematical expressions in the search box using a variety of operators and trigonometric functions[31] and Bing will provide a direct calculation of the expression.
Advanced computations – Using the Wolfram Alpha computational engine, Bing can also give results to advanced mathematical problems (e.g. "lim x/2x as x->2") and other Wolfram Alpha-related queries (e.g., asking the number of calories in a typical pizza).
Package tracking and tracing – When a user types the name of the shipping company and the tracking number, Bing will provide direct tracking information
Dictionary – When "define", "definition", or "what is" followed by a word is entered in the searchbox Bing will show a direct answer from the Oxford English Dictionary
Spell check – Will change frequently misspelled search terms to the more commonly spelled alternative.
Best match (plus similar sites)
Product shopping and "Bing cashback"
Health information
Flight tracking
Translate – Auto translation of certain search phrases, often with phrases including "translate" or "in English". For example, to translate me llamo from Spanish to English the user would simply type "translate me llamo in English" and he or she would be redirected to a search results page with Bing Translator with the translation from Spanish to English[disputed – discuss]
Local info
Current traffic information
Business listing
People listing
Collections
Localized searching for restaurants and services
Localized searching for coupons and deals
Restaurant reviews
Movies played in an area – When a current movie title is entered in the search box Bing will provide listings of local theaters showing the movie. When a city is added to the search box, Bing provides the movie listings localized for that city.
City hotel listings – When "hotels" and a city name is entered in the search box Bing can provide hotel listings with a map. The listing leads to a detail search page with the hotels listed that holds extended information on the hotels and contains links to reviews, directions reservations and bird-eye view of the hotel. On the page with the listings the list can be refined by settings on ratings, pricing, amenities, payment, and parking
Third-party integration
Facebook users have the option to share their searches with their Facebook friends using Facebook Connect.[32]
On June 10, 2013, Apple announced that it would be dropping Google as its web search engine in favour of Bing.[33] 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
Windows 8.1 includes Bing "Smart Search" integration, which processes all queries submitted through the Windows Start Screen.[34] The Bing integration captures a variety of features, one of the most prominent and advertised: Hero Search. This feature allows users to browse for popular and well-known places, objects or people. Searching France, for example, will show popular search items, such as population, calling code and date founded. The current weather and location are also directly accessible using Bing Weather and Bing maps. The "Hero" result will go further to provide attractions using Bing Images and popular websites relating to France, such as France Wikipedia and France's official website. Searching an artist will display similar results with the option to play music using the Windows 8-integrated Groove Music application.
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.[35] As of March 2018, Bing Translator offers translations in 60 different language systems.[36]
Bing Translator can translate phrases entered by the user or acquire a link to a web page and translate its entirely. When translating an entire web page, or when the user selects "Translate this page" in Bing search results, the Bilingual Viewer is shown, which allows users to browse the original web page text and translation in parallel, supported by synchronized highlights, scrolling, and navigation.[37] Four Bilingual Viewer layouts are available: side by side, top and bottom, original with hover translation and translation with hover original.
International
Bing is available in many languages and has been localized for many countries.[38] 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.[39]
Languages in which Bing can find results
Albanian
Arabic
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional scripts)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English (American and British)
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay
Norwegian
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Slovak
Slovene
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
Languages in which Bing can be displayed
Basque
Catalan
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional scripts)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English (American and British)
Estonian
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay
Norwegian
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Slovak
Slovene
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
Search products
In addition to its tool for searching web pages, Bing also provides the following search offerings:[40]
Service
Description
Advertising
Formally known as adCenter, Bing Ads allows publishers to purchase pay per click advertising on Bing.[41]
Dictionary
Bing Dictionary enables users to quickly search for definitions of English words. Bing Dictionary results are based on the Oxford English Dictionary.[citation needed] In addition, Bing Dictionary also provides an audio player for users to hear the pronunciation of the dictionary words.
Events
Bing Events allow users to search for upcoming events from Zvents, and displays the date and time, venue details, brief description, as well as method to purchase tickets for the events listed. Users can also filter the search results by date and categories.
Finance
Bing Finance enables users to search for exchange listed stocks and displays the relevant stock information, company profile and statistics, financial statements, stock ratings, analyst recommendations, as well as news related to the particular stock or company. Bing Finance also allow users to view the historical data of the particular stock, and allows comparison of the stock to major indices. In addition, Bing Finance also features a JavaScript-based Stock screener, allowing investors to quickly filter for value, contrarian, high-yield, and bargain investment strategies.
Health
Bing Health refines health searches using related medical concepts to get relevant health information and to allow users to navigate complex medical topics with inline article results from experts. This feature is based on the Medstory acquisition.
Images
Bing Images enables the user to quickly search and display most relevant photos and images of interest. The advance filters allow refining search results in terms of properties such as image size, aspect ratio, color or black and white, photo or illustration, and facial features recognition.
Local
Bing Local searches local business listings with business details and reviews, allowing users to make more informed decisions.
Maps
Bing Maps enables the user to search for businesses, addresses, landmarks and street names worldwide, and can select from a road-map style view, a satellite view or a hybrid of the two. Also available are "bird's-eye" images for many cities worldwide, and 3D maps which include virtual 3D navigation and to-scale terrain and 3D buildings. For business users it will be available as "Bing Maps For Enterprise".
News
Bing News is a news aggregator and provides news results relevant to the search query from a wide range of online news and information services.
Recipe
Bing Recipe allow users to search for cooking recipes sourced from Delish.com, MyRecipes.com, and Epicurious.com, and allow users to filter recipe results based on their ratings, cuisine, convenience, occasion, ingredient, course, cooking method, and recipe provider.
Reference
Bing Reference semantically indexes Wikipedia content and displays them in an enhanced view within Bing.[citation needed] It also allow users to input search queries that resembles full questions and highlights the answer within search results. This feature is based on the Powerset acquisition.
Social
Bing Social allow users to search for and retrieve real-time information from Twitter and Facebook services. Bing Social search also provides "best match" and "social captions" functionalities that prioritises results based on relevance and contexts. Only public feeds from the past 7 days will be displayed in Bing Social search results.
Translator
Bing Translator lets users translate texts or entire web pages into different languages.
University
Bing University allow users to search for and view detailed information about United States universities, including information such as admissions, cost, financial aid, student body, and graduation rate.
Videos
Bing Videos enables the user to quickly search and view videos online from various websites. The Smart Preview feature allows the user to instantly watch a short preview of an original video. Bing Videos also allow users to access editorial video contents from MSN Video.
Visual Search
Bing Visual Search (Announced Sept 2009, deprecated – July 2012[42]) allowed users to refine their search queries for structured results through data-grouping image galleries that resembles "large online catalogues", powered by Silverlight[43]
Weather
Bing Weather allow users to search for the local weather for cities around the world, displaying the current weather information and also extended weather forecasts for the next 10 days. Weather information are provided by Intellicast and Foreca.
Wolfram Alpha
Bing Wolfram Alpha allow users to directly enter factual queries within Bing and provides answers and relevant visualizations from a core knowledge base of curated, structured data provided by Wolfram Alpha. Bing Wolfram Alpha can also answer mathematical and algebraic questions.
Webmaster services
Bing allows webmasters to manage the web crawling status of their own websites through Bing Webmaster Center. Additionally, 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 allow users to conduct search queries on their mobile devices, either via the mobile browser or a downloadable mobile application.
Developer services
Bing Application Programming Interface enables developers to programmatically submit queries and retrieve results from the Bing Engine. http://www.bing.com/developers
To use the Bing API developers have to obtain an Application ID, http://www.bing.com/developers/createapp.aspx
Bing API can be used with following protocols:
XML
JSON
SOAP
Query examples:
http://api.bing.net/xml.aspx?AppId=YOUR_APPID&Version=2.2&Market=en-US&Query=YOUR_QUERY&Sources=web+spell&Web.Count=1
http://api.bing.net/json.aspx?AppId=YOUR_APPID&Version=2.2&Market=en-US&Query=YOUR_QUERY&Sources=web+spell&Web.Count=1
http://api.bing.net/search.wsdl?AppID=YourAppId&Version=2.2
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.[44]
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.[45]
Desktop
Bing Desktop 1.3.475.0
Microsoft released a beta version of Bing Desktop, a program developed to allow users to search Bing from the desktop, on April 4, 2012.[46] The initial release followed shortly on April 24, 2012, supporting Windows 7 only.[47] With the release of version 1.1 in December 2012 it supported Windows XP and higher.[48]
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.[49]
The discontinued Live Search versions of the Windows Sidebar gadgets
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.[50] 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.[51] The Live Search Maps gadget was made available for download again on January 24, 2008 with the security concern addressed.[52] However around the introduction of Bing in June 2009 both gadgets have been removed again for download from Windows Live Gallery.
Market share
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. Bing powered searches also continued to have a higher "success rate" compared to Google, with more users clicking on the resulting links.[citation needed] 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".[53] The Wall Street Journal notes the 1% jump in share "appeared to come at the expense of rival Google Inc".[54] In February 2011, Bing beat Yahoo! for the first time with 4.37% search share while Yahoo! received 3.93%.[55]
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.[32][56][57][58]
The combined "Bing Powered" U.S. searches have declined from 26.5% in 2011 to 25.9% in April 2012.[59] By November 2015, its market share had declined further to 20.9%.[60]
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).[61] According to the website the service was decommissioned on June 1, 2009, having donated over $500,000 to charity and schools.[62]
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.[63]
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.[64] The ads claim that Bing does a better job countering "search overload".[65]
"Decision engine"
Bing has been heavily advertised as a "decision engine",[66] though thought by columnist David Berkowitz to be more closely related to a web portal.[67]
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.[68] These credits were then redeemed for various products including electronics, gift cards, sweepstakes, and charitable donations.[69] Users were given either Member, Silver or Gold status at one given time based on how frequent they use the program.[70] 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.[71]
The Bing Rewards program was rebranded as "Microsoft Rewards" in 2016,[72] 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."[73][74]
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.[75] Mozilla Firefox made a deal with Microsoft to jointly release "Firefox with Bing", an edition of Firefox where Bing has replaced Google as the default search engine.[76][77] 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.[78]
In addition, Microsoft paid Verizon Wireless $550 million USD[79] 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.[80]
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.[81][82] This poll was nicknamed "Bing It On".[83][84] Microsoft presented a study of almost 1,000 people[85] which showed that 57% of participants in such a test preferred Bing's results, with only 30% preferring Google.[86]
Adult content
Bing censors results for "adult" search terms for some regions, including India, People's Republic of China, Germany and Arab countries[87] where required by local laws.[88] 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.
Criticism
Censorship
Microsoft has been criticized for censoring Bing search results to queries made in simplified Chinese characters, used in mainland China. This is done to comply with the censorship requirements of the government in China.[89] 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.[90] All simplified Chinese searches in Bing are censored regardless of the user's country.[91][92] The English-language search results of Bing in China has been skewed to show more content from state-run media like Xinhua and China Daily.[93]
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.[94][95]
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.[96][97]
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.[98] 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.[99][100]
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." [101] Microsoft stated that Bing was not intended to be a duplicate of any existing search engines.[102]
See also
Microsoft portal
Internet portal
List of search engines by popularity
Comparison of web search engines
List of search engines
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Bing – Bosnian
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values:
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Catalan
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ca
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values:
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Czech
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values:
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values:
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values:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Spanish
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es
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values:
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values:
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values:
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values: बिंग – Hindi

values:
https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Croatian
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hr
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values:
https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Indonesian
id
id
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values:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Italian
it
it
interlanguage-link-target

values:
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values: בינג (מנוע חיפוש) – Hebrew

values:
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values:
https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Georgian
ka
ka
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values:
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values:
https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Kurdish
ku
ku
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values:
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values:
https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Lithuanian
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lt
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values:
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values:
https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Hungarian
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hu
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values:
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Bing – Maltese
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mt
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values:
https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Malay
ms
ms
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values: ဘင်း ရှာဖွေရေး အင်ဂျင် – Burmese

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Bing – Japanese
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ja
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values:
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Bing – Piedmontese
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pms
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values:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Polish
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pl
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values:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Portuguese
pt
pt
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values:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Russian
ru
ru
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values:
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Bing – Simple English
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simple
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values:
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Slovak
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values:
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Bing – Somali
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Bing – Serbian
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values:
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Bing – Finnish
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fi
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display: none;

values: பிங் – Tamil

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values:
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Bing – Turkish
tr
tr
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values:
https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Ukrainian
uk
uk
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values:
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values:
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Bing – Vietnamese
vi
vi
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values:
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values:
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing
Bing – Chinese
zh
zh
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values: All languages (initial selection from common choices by you and others)

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