Let’s take a look at some of the bigger ticket issues folks should focus on when optimizing their websites. This list is not meant to cover everything, but to focus in on some of the more important aspects you should look at addressing. The first part of this list is presented in a rough order of importance based on getting work done. In many case, you’ll find your own circumstances won’t allow your focus and...
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Bing Blogs - 143
The most frustrating thing as a recruiter is to bring in a qualified candidate that does a poor job conveying his or her interest in Microsoft. I often hear from hiring managers, “this candidate doesn’t know anything about our business” or “the candidate didn’t seem very interested in the role.” Often candidates get so caught up in selling their qualification and abilities that they forget to convey...
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Christina Koehn is a UX Designer for Bing. Her team’s mission is to create a beautiful, usable and memorable experience for Bing. They also strive to be one step ahead of the competition in the search space, and create innovative design solutions that go above and beyond the traditional paradigms of search engines. Christina’s role on the team is to design and drive implementation of visual systems across Bing. Christina commented that...
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Today we’re happy to announce the release of the “We’re In” app for Windows Phone.
We’re In makes organizing get- together’s, carpooling and trying to find people in a crowd a breeze. Any time you want to see where your friends are—We’re In can help you. It’s simple, invite your friends, and when they join, they’ll see your location and you’ll see theirs. When the invite...
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In June, we talked about how the future living room will do more than give you great entertainment; it will help you find what you’re looking for and help you decide what to enjoy. To that end, we previewed a new way for people to find movies, games, music and other entertainment: voice search with Bing on Xbox.
Today on the Microsoft Blog, Frank Shaw expands on this notion highlighting how products and services like Xbox, Kinect and Bing...
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I joined Bing Design team in April of this year (2011) as a user experience and visual designer. The design team works directly with user research and editorial to create the visual presentation and user experience of bing.com (including, that beautiful, interactive, home page). For 2 years prior to joining Bing, I was a contract designer for Microsoft’s Interactive Experience Business creating information + publication design – ...
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Coming out of college studying finance and marketing, I realized I didn’t want to go the typical investment banking route after talking to mentors and friends that had gone that way. I instead wanted to land at a place that taught me what it took to actually build a product with enormous reach and to run a business around it. So after graduating from the University of Michigan, I ended up at Microsoft in the Finance Rotation...
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Bing Webmaster Tools will now be showing integrated data from Yahoo within certain areas and reports. Given the combined effort the Search Alliance represents, it makes sense to showcase relevant data from both engines within a webmaster account. Most areas and data within the accounts will not be affected. The short list of areas you will notice changes in are as follows:
On the Traffic Tab: Traffic summary report and Page...
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Waking up to find your website, or portion of it, has been removed from a search index can be a perplexing and frightening experience. What if you could help reduce that risk by restricting access to sensitive areas of webmaster tools, and render them “read only” for assigned individuals?
Bing’s Webmaster Tools places exactly that kind of control within reach. By managing user access levels, you can control who has...
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My name is Lisa, and I am the test manager for the Ad Platform Business Intelligence team. I have been with Microsoft for 7 years and have been with the Ad Platform BI team for the past three and half years. I worked in the Exchange Server team for 4 years since joining Microsoft. Prior to that, I worked in IBM as a Java JDK developer for 5 years in Austin, Texas. I currently manage the Ad Platform Business Intelligence...
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