In February we brought you the news that Bing had plans for a one-day test of IPv6 connectivity in June. Today Microsoftannouncedthat the Bing IPv6 experiment, which is in conjunction with World IPv6 Day, will commence at 5 pm PST. The test will last 24 hours, concluding at 5 pm PST on Wednesday, June 8th. IPv6 will be enabled for users around the world who can support the protocol. Users who cannot will continue to use the IPv4 version of Bing without interruption....

If you head over tom.bing.comright now you can play with the latest from the Bing mobile team, but you are going to need an HTML5 enabled browser. Yes, that does mean that every WP7 user cannot enjoy Bing’s newest toys until IE9 Mobile launches. Bing hasreleased several new updatesto its mobile web app today that should render its experience faster, and more data rich. Using HTML5, the Bing team states that the new mobile web app includes “better and faster image search, real-time transit and directions, [and] app search for the iPhone....

Surely by now you have heard of the most recent search storm-in-a-teacup: Google has more or lessaccused Bing of ripping off their search results. Given the severity of the claim, it has generatedmassive debate and controversyall across the world of technology. The Bing team in response stated emphatically that “We [Bing] do not copy Google’s results.” The company has just released anew statement on the matter, part of which bears quoting....

Bing, Microsoft’s popular search engine, has rolled outtwo new search featurestoday that will yield more relevant results for its millions of users. The search engine will now tailor results by city for users in the US, and will also be taking users’ search history in hand to help improve future results. To boost the relevance of its location-related results, Bing is now filtering results based on what city a users is searching from....

Bing might be the butt of many a joke in the technology world, but the ‘second’ search engine seems to beeffectively wooing the public. According to the2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index, Bing’s customer satisfaction rate jumped 5 points from 77 in 2010, to 82 in 2011, moving it to second place under Google. YouTube and Facebook sat towards the bottom of the list, garnering only 74 and 66 points respectively....