‎Bing Places

Bob_Orb

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The app only displays and allows access to 50 of the businesses you manage, and the ones you can access on the app are arbitrarily selected by Bing, with no apparent way to edit the list of available businesses or even to access non-displayed businesses via a search function.

I initially downloaded the app to try and verify my association to a new business listing I had created, hoping to avoid waiting for a verification postcard to arrive (or to never arrive) in the mail. Bing on my desktop gave me the option to verify via the app, so I attempted to do so.

Unfortunately, seeing as how I was already administering 137 businesses on the service before even downloading the app, there was never even a chance of me verifying this new business listing on the app because it is not one of the 50 that Bing chose to display. Not to mention that the businesses that *are* available for me to edit on the app almost never need edits/updates because they are old, mostly unchanging listings.

Discovering that I won’t be able to manage via the app any new business listings I create from now on renders the app mostly useless to me. This is very unfortunate, and I’m not sure why the app’s features are so prohibitively limited.

Surprising, since the Bing search engine has been such a universally loved, widely used success, much like Microsoft’s Edge browser! 😅 Kidding of course lol