Bing Blogs - 139

We’ve been talking for a while about the need to rethink the search experience to better reflect both the changing web and advancing user habits. One of the biggest challenges and opportunities we see is to literally create a high-definition proxy of the physical world inside of Bing. In other words, we want to be able to model the world in which we all live to the level that search can actually help you make decisions and get things done in...
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Greetings, I am a recent addition to the Microsoft Corporation.  I was lucky enough to land a position on the Global Networking Services Enterprise Solutions team where we design the networks that support the Business Online Services. Prior to Microsoft I worked for a small Cisco Systems partner where we specialized in mid-sized enterprises.  This provided me exposure to a large number of customers all running networks in very different...
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Anshu Khurana gives us a glimpse of what her life is like with 2 children under the age of 4 while she balances a successful career as a Sr. Product Marketing Manager in advertising with the Online Services Division (OSD).  Many of us in OSD know what it’s like to balance our professional and personal life.  Read more about Anshu’s story here on Microsoft’s JobsBlog. 
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Recently, we launched a fresh batch of exciting new social features. Now you can receive personalized search results based on the opinions of your friends on Facebook. To celebrate the launch, we’re giving five lucky @bing followers $100 towards a night out with friends! Today (June 1st), we’re going to tweet a question from the @bing Twitter handle asking what decisions you make with your friends. All you have to do to be eligible to...
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I think by now we all know that Bing is more than just a search engine, it’s a decision engine.  But did you also know that your friends can now help you make better decisions?  A couple weeks ago, the Bing team introduced the world to Social Search.  Social Search is a feature of Bing which combines search results with the likes of your Facebook friends.  When you sign into Facebook on the Bing homepage, the collective...
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If you take a look at a Bing map in Streetside view today you will notice that we’ve made a lot of changes. These changes represent a significant enhancement for desktop browsers, enabling you to quickly pan up and down the street to see the neighborhood and find businesses. We are doing this by providing street level panoramas so you can take a virtual walk through the streets with a view of locations and landmarks. As you slide the street...
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Bing.com/maps now partners with multiple Real Estate companies to bring you Real Estate expereinces, like searching for a new home to buy or rent, right on Bing Maps!
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It was about 17 years ago in the old Microsoft Building C at an evening test talk delivered by an industry luminary that I personally became excited to be a tester.  In this talk the presenter shared a story about how he and his test team were the gate keepers, the protectors, the champions of the customer.  It was their job to root out all software bugs before the product shipped and, if need be, prevent the bad product from being...
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Last week in Los Angeles, Bing was the proud sponsor of the 13th Annual Young Hollywood Awards – also known as the “Oscars of Young Hollywood.”  The Young Hollywood Awards honors and celebrates the accomplishments of emerging young talent throughout the entertainment industry.  Up and coming young entertainers including Garrett Hedlund, Elle Fanning, Haile Steinfeld, Troian Bellisaro and Ariel Winter were on hand for...
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Coming To a Windows Phone Near You: Mango The Windows Phone team officially unveiled their next major release, codenamed Mango, today. Over here at Bing we are just as excited as they are about the great new features this release includes but naturally, the expanded Bing features are what really get us pumped up, so let’s start there. Some of our favorite new Bing features include: Bing vision and music search for identifying and learning...
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