Each day, a new Bing Homepage image transports you to a different corner of the globe or introduces you to some of the world’s most amazing creatures. As 2014 comes to a close, the Bing team wanted to look back at your favorite homepages of the year. But first, we wanted to recall that Bing turned five this year, and with so many memorable images over the years, we marked the occasion by releasing the new Bing Homepage Gallery so you can access...
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You’d better watch out, you’d better not cry, you’d better not pout, we’re telling you why – you guessed it, Santa Claus is coming to town. The countdown is almost over – and that means it’s almost time to start tracking Santa! On Tuesday, December 23 at 11:00 pm Pacific Time (PT) the NORAD Tracks Santa experience will go live as Santa begins the final preparations for his magical journey. And starting at 3:00 am PT on Wednesday, December 24, when...
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As we head into the holidays, we have a few things to share with you that released this week. AMBER Alerts Following the abduction and murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman in 1996, a national child abduction alert system called AMBER Alert was established in her honor. AMBER is eponymous, but it’s also an acronym – it stands for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response. AMBER Alerts are disseminated though a variety of means including radio,...
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Heading into the holidays, we suspect there will be a few iPhone and iPad-shaped boxes under all that gift wrapping. One free gift you might want to look at, right out of the box, is the Bing app. And for anyone with an iPhone or iPad, the holidays have come early with updates to the Bing apps released today. Here’s the rundown of what’s new: On iPhone, we completely redesigned the home screen of the app. Due to the larger size of the new iPhones,...
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With year’s end fast approaching it’s appropriate to take stock on your accomplishments over the past 12 month as well as your ambitions for the upcoming year. Here at Bing Maps we are proud to have delivered an ongoing series of major updates of aerial and Streetside imagery and are starting to plan for what’s next for us in 2015. This post highlights some of the cities in our latest monthly content release. A complete list of locations with new...
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December is a traditional time for casting our eye over the moments that made our year and with Bing’s Top Searches of 2014 we’ve enjoyed recapping the moments that mattered – from the biggest star to the most bizarre news of 2014. But it’s also a time to shift gears and look forward to the year ahead. As you know, the Bing Predicts team has been busy this year predicting events like the World Cup, NFL games, and the US Mid-term Elections. We were...
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Throughout the last year, we have been applying the intelligence of Bing to predict things like the mid-term election results and the NFL playoffs. Bing makes predictions by taking into account a variety of data signals from across the web. Today, we’re happy to bring you our predictions for the finale of NBC’s hit singing competition, The Voice. Of the final four contestants, our data says that the conversation is really only between two: Matt...
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At Bing, we’re committed to making search better and safer for kids. Bing is the first major search engine to support a proposed new web safety standard known as safe preference. Websites and services that adopt this method only display content they have classified as safe when participating browsers communicate the user’s safe preference to them. We realize that controlling your children’s safety settings can be challenging. With so many devices,...
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We’ve had a busy week over at Bing. Here are some of the new things you can check out on Bing today. Hotel booking on Bing goes international in 22 countries and 14 languages Bing, in partnership with TripAdvisor, has brought hotel booking to Bing.com for people in 22 countries. Whether you are in Germany, Japan, or India, getting a place to stay should be one thing you can quickly check off your to-do list this holiday season, and Bing’s here to...
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Today Bing and Office are introducing Insights for Office, a new, more powerful way to search for the information you need while in Office Word Online – available in English to all markets in the next few days. We encourage you to try it here, always free. Our lives are information rich – we learn, create, and share new ideas faster than ever. At Microsoft, we believe the information you need to complete a task should be right at your fingertips...
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