We made some updates to Bing Maps. In case it isn’t set as your homepage and you would like some additional context, I’d be happy to provide that for you. Here’s the bullet list: Walking Directions – Everyone in NYC will be relieved that they can use Bing Maps because we now have walking directions.
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  You’ll notice something “off” about the homepage tomorrow – our lights! On Saturday, March 27th from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time, the World Wildlife Fund invites you to join people from 3,100 cities in 121 countries on all 7 continents in participating in Earth Hour, where people across the world can demonstrate their concern about global climate change with the simplest of gestures: turning off all non-essential...
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I am LaShawn Morgan, a Staffing Consultant at Microsoft.  I’ve been in the recruiting industry now for 10 years.    I’ve often been asked, “why did you get into recruiting?” and “do you like what you do?”  I was certainly asked this question when I recently spoke to a group of students from a communications class & a student leadership conference at Western Washington University (WWU...
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Tonight marks the second global Twestival (or Twitter Festival) in over 175 cities around the world and Bing is excited to be a part of it in at least a few of those cities.  At first I asked the team to see how many we could hit in a night to lend our support and donations to Twestival’s great charity beneficiary, but cooler heads (and the pesky immutable laws of spacetime) have limited us to four cities.  Look for Betsy (@baoki...
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Today’s installment of the From the Forums column involves a user who had difficulties getting the required authentication code installed on the default page of her website so she could take advantage of the Bing Webmaster Center tools. The customized authentication code issued by Bing Webmaster Center ensures that only the site owner who registered with Webmaster Center can get access to the detailed information about the site as...
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Today at SES New York we shared with attendees our plans to begin testing some new Bing features as we start to move into the next wave of innovation which will be rolling out later this spring and summer. Our focus remains consistent – we want Bing to be the best place to help you make better decisions. When we launched last June, one of the ways we helped customers get to better decisions was by providing a more visual, more...
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When it comes to conferences, March, indeed, is madness. Let’s quickly recount.  March tipped off with a bang (or “bing!” if you may) with Steve Ballmer and Danny Sullivan chatted search and more at SMX West in Santa Clara.  Next, we ran the ball up the court to Portland’s Searchfest, where Stefan Weitz was handsomely rewarded for delivering the keynote.  Onwards to SXSWi in Austin – another city...
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SourceCon Conference 2010, San Diego California Recruiters are turning out in droves to the online space, making their marks with videoing, blogging, social networking and other creative outlets. I was observing at this year’s SourceCon Conference how the online venues have changed with the increasing prevalence of recruiters using blogs with photos, videos, social networks, etc. This raises interesting conversations around how we...
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In another installment of the From the Forums column, today we have an interesting thread about a website that updated its content and used 301 redirects to migrate users to the new content. However, the transition to the new content in the Bing index was taking longer than they expected. The old content was not fading away. The amazing volunteer members of our community jumped right in and began examining the site in question. It was soon...
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Plan Your Spring Break with Bing Oh how I love this time of year. A little spring cleaning, the start of the NCAA basketball tournament, the anticipation of warm afternoons at the ballpark, and students and families gearing up for Spring Break. As I work away from the comfort of my office, I intend to reminisce and remember the good old days of sunny vacations and relaxation while I continue to work away from the comfort of my desk. Are you one...
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