Who hasn’t wanted to quickly send a map to a friend? With today’s update, we’ve enhanced and expanded the ways you can share your Bing Maps results from your PC by introducing shorter URLs, expanded “send to mobile” functionality, and easier sharing to Facebook and Twitter. Click to Share To get started!
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Whether it’s planning the family feast, finding the perfect gift or grabbing a parking spot at the mall, holiday decisions can be overwhelming. With that in mind, we have invited Susan Carraretto, one half of the identical twin blogger team behind 5 Minutes for Mom to join the #BingIt crew this Wednesday, November 9th at 12 p.m. PT.
Susan is an internet loving, passionately driven, crazy busy mom who changed her life online and is...
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Today, we are lifting the curtains on Bing Central, one location for you to explore Bing services and features by completing fun missions, manage your Bing Rewards account, redeem great rewards in the redemption center and access account support as well as your profiles and preferences for Travel, Maps, Finance, and Shopping.
Bing Central gives you a hub to manage everything you do with Bing. From checking your Bing Reward offers and...
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Congratulations to the winners of the Bing “Decide Your Best Halloween Costume” sweepstakes. On October 25th, we asked you to tell us about the best Halloween costume you have ever worn. To enter, participants were asked to tweet their replies to the @Bing handle and utilize the #BingHalloween hashtag. We are excited to report that the following 5 entrants were the lucky winners of the contest: @amandafgordon, @CullyWaggoner...
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I joined Microsoft over 11 years ago – and have been in love with the company and the products we create ever since, especially my current team here at Bing!
I wrapped up design school quite a few years ago, and afterwards bounced around at some local design agencies and worked in a range of design mediums from print and branding to interaction. I ended up contracting here at Microsoft where I worked on User Experience for online games...
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My name is Andrea and I am a data addict. I admit it – I prefer data driven decisions over gut feeling.
I have spent the last three years with the Online Services Division working with Audience data. Audience data is that data that we term as everything after the click. It is the data that takes all the page views and clicks and translates into what our ‘audience’ likes and does not like. One of the things I take great pride in,...
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Hello Bing Jobs Blog readers! I’m Louise Cassell, a new contributor to Bing Jobs blog, who recently joined the Online Services Division after nearly five years as a Staffing Consultant with Windows Phone. It’s been an exciting and eye-open past few months as I’ve learned more about our business, the exciting projects on the horizon and the talent we’ll need to help us bring those projects from idea to real products...
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We've spent the better part of a year now hitting the shows, running surveys and holding focus groups. Along with the information we captured direct from the webmaster community through those sources, there is the daily flow of inbound suggestions and, yes, items needing to be fixed, that we can draw insights from. Today we're rolling out the latest features and updates, most of which come directly from user feedback. You spoke...
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We’ve spent the better part of a year now hitting the shows, running surveys and holding focus groups. Along with the information we captured direct from the webmaster community through those sources, there is the daily flow of inbound suggestions and, yes, items needing to be fixed, that we can draw insights from. Now, just in time for the holidays, we’re rolling out the latest features and updates, most of which come directly from...
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Microsoft Newscenter posted an interesting interview with Sean Suchter who heads up our social search team on the Silicon Valley Campus as well as two of his team members Paul Yiu and Tim Harrington. The three share their perspectives on the challenges and possibilities for search to evolve with increasingly social nature of the the Web as well as their thoughts on life in general.
Head over to Microsoft Newscenter to read the...
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