Calling all bargain hunters, deal lovers, Groupon groupies and Living Social fanatics! Things just got easier.

Today we’re launching Bing deals for the desktop and mobile (m.bing.com) – giving you access to more than 200,000 unique offers in over 14,000 cities and towns across the U.S. Bing deals assembles leading offers from Groupon, Living Social and Restaurant.com (just to name a few), making it easier to discover, share and search for the best deals in your area – all from one place.

Instead of creating our own program, we’ve partnered with The Dealmap, to launch Bing deals. Bing’s mission is to help you cut through the clutter of the Web to make decisions more quickly – whether that’s through our own innovations [+]

Calling all bargain hunters, deal lovers, Groupon groupies and Living Social fanatics! Things just got easier.

Today we’re launching Bing deals for the desktop and mobile (m.bing.com) – giving you access to more than 200,000 unique offers in over 14,000 cities and towns across the U.S. Bing deals assembles leading offers from Groupon, Living Social and Restaurant.com (just to name a few), making it easier to discover, share and search for the best deals in your area – all from one place.

Instead of creating our own program, we’ve partnered with The Dealmap, to launch Bing deals. Bing’s mission is to help you cut through the clutter of the Web to make decisions more quickly – whether that’s through our own innovations [+]

“The mountains are calling and I must go,” said famed naturalist John Muir. He lived his life among the wilderness, but today’s travelers still feel the pull of the majesty of those peaks and pinnacles. Whether we witness snowcapped mountains from the window of our airplane, from a hotel room window, or from a hiking trail on the mountain itself, their draw is undeniable.

Many peaks are so recognizable we know them by sight: the perfect cone of Mount Fuji, the pyramid of the Matterhorn, the soaring heights of Everest. But there are many that are equally beautiful that deserve our attention – and a visit. Bing Travel’s new slideshow, The World’s Most Beautiful Mountains, is a collection of our favorite 20 peaks from Tibet to Peru and beyond.

If you’ve been to any of these mountains, tell [+]

This is the latest in our series of YouTube highlights. Every couple of weeks, we bring you regular updates on new product features, interesting programs to watch, and tips you can use to grow your audience on YouTube. Just look for the label “YouTube Highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed. In past weeks, we’ve featured two more YouTube interviews with leaders through the World View program and seen more footage come in from across the Middle East as unrest there continues. David Cameron and John Boehner on YouTube In YouTube World View’s second interview, YouTube and Al Jazeera English sat down with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Ten thousand people submitted questions, and in the interview, the Prime Minister shared his thoughts on what should be done in Libya, and talked about increased taxes for banks in the U.K. and Britain’s [+]

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The Yahoo! Search team is excited to release the technical specification for Yahoo! Search BOSS v2. We’ve been hard at work getting ready to launch a new version of BOSS (as we announced in October 2010) and last month we provided further details to help developers prepare for the transition.

The Yahoo! Search BOSS v2 API Guide can be found here. It includes:

 -          Information on using oAuth with the new API.

-          Syntax specification on querying the API and the format of the returned results.

-          Syntax for calling Ads from the platform (available to qualified developers).

-          Markets supported by the product.

Thank you for your continued support around the product. We look forward to bringing the new BOSS to you soon.

Rahul Hampole

Yahoo! Search BOSS Team

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ACCORDING TO YAHOO! SEARCH DATA, BLACK SWAN REIGNS SUPREME AND THE WEB IS BUZZING ABOUT CO-HOST ANNE HATHAWAY

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards are set to air on Sunday February 27th.  As the world prepares for Hollywood’s biggest night, Yahoo! looked at which films and actors are getting the most buzz online in the past 30 days.

According to Yahoo! search data, the web is excited about Hollywood’s big show:

Searches for “when are the Oscars” are spiking on Yahoo! Searches on Yahoo! for “Oscars 2011” are up 1403% Oscar ballots are spiking on Yahoo! up 38% Searches for the award show are split between males and females States Searching for “Oscars” the most: California, Illinois, Texas, Washington and New Jersey Definitely for the older crowd: those under 24 only make up 16% of searches for “Oscars”

Black Swan Reigns Supreme: According to Yahoo! search data, the top searched nominated [+]