Bing Blogs - 146

Today we are excited to announce the launch of Bing Bar, available for download here. Engineered from the ground up, the new Bing Bar gives you quick access to all the stuff you do online. Conducting a search, checking Facebook or keeping tabs on email, Bing Bar centralizes the most common things you do while helping you discover new features that let you get the most out of Bing. Because we know you don’t have time to read manuals or watch ...
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The Bing Mobile group in Boulder, Colorado is constantly developing new areas to bring relevance to search through processing and interpreting imagery. When we last met, I had outlined the structure of our team and operations in Boulder, CO.  This time around, I’d like to take some time to go a little more in depth on one of our products: Bird’s Eye imagery.    One of the challenges our site met in the previous year was...
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Black History Month is in February and Microsoft Jobs Blog takes a moment to speak with our very own Tameiko Davis.  Tameiko is a Staffing Manager supporting Bing, and she reflects on the role diversity plays in the hiring process and how Microsoft’s company wide diversity efforts have affected her personally.  Take a moment to view the post here: http://jobsblog.com/blog/diversity-and-inspiration-at-microsoft/ .  
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Ready or not, Valentine’s Day is here! As you know, Bing can help get you in the spirit, plan the perfect date, choose a great gift or find that romantic track to set the mood. But while we’re at it, we thought we’d settle an important question: Which celebrity would folks in the US most like to spend Valentine’s Day with? The results are in: Happy Valentine’s Day – The Bing Team  
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Today, we launched Bing Spatial Data Services, adding next generation spatial search to the Bing API offering. This release offers the benefits of cloud hosting and distributed computing, allowing customers to upload their data to our servers and perform spatial queries under the umbrella of their existing Bing Maps License.
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Steve Coast joined Microsoft in November 2010 as a Principal Architect.   Steve founded OpenStreetMap in 2004 which is a free and open map of the world.  He also co-founded CloudMade in 2008 that monetizes the map as values moves upstream.  Take a look at Steve’s OpenStreetMap talk at Location Strategies San Jose 2011.  http://www.stevecoast.com/talks.html  
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For years people have talked about personalized search as the next evolution of our amazing technology.  Over the years, the biggest obstacle facing search engineers is the simple fact that human behavior is not predictable. Don’t get us wrong, people can be creatures of habit and we can build functions that enable us to display different results based on logical assumptions made in the aggregate.  For example, ‘traffic&rsquo...
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A few weeks ago, for those of you who couldn’t make it to Sundance, we brought you exclusive access to film events, speaker series, celebrity interviews and parties from the streets of Park City.  We also posed a series of questions (which leading lady do you think will rise to the top in 2011?) and asked you to tweet your decision with the hashtag “#decisions” for a chance to win a Bing branded snowboard. You guys...
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I have been working as a user experience and visual designer for Bing since October 2009. Over the past year and a half, I have gotten to help redefine the visual look and feel of the product, as well as drive design for several innovative new features. I see search as a very exciting area to work in because of the opportunity that I have to organize and visualize the world’s information in new, more meaningful ways. I think Bing design will...
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It’s that time of year.  February 14th is circled on the calendar, romance is in the air and people around the world are racking their brains to plan the perfect night out.   According to a recent Bing consumer poll of 16-35 year olds, mobile phones are increasingly becoming a critical tool for Valentine’s Day.  We’ve captured some of the top findings and provided tips on how Bing for Mobile can help you...
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