Bing is teaming with Rovio, the folks behind the cultural phenomenon, Angry Birds, to put a new twist on the birds vs. pigs saga. Starting today, you can watch as the pigs scheme creative ways to get their hooves on the treasured eggs via a 4-part animated video series sponsored by Bing. Check out the first videos below and visit the Bing YouTube channel to follow the next installments.
Bing Maps developers from Earthware, OnTerra and Infusion recently discussed Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks.
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Update: As
of today (3/10/2011), KAYAK is providing flight search results in the U.S. from multiple
cities, airports and airlines, giving customers access to a larger set of
flight itineraries as they work to plan and book travel on Bing.
Since the launch of Bing, our goal has been to create a new and different search experience focused on helping you make faster, more informed decisions. We set out to do this by delivering great results...
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*Update: Bing deals for the desktop is rolling out and will be fully live for all users in the coming weeks.
Calling all bargain hunters, deal lovers, Groupon groupies and Living Social fanatics! Things just got easier.
Today we’re launching Bing deals for the desktop and mobile (m.bing.com) – giving you access to more than 200,000 unique offers in over 14,000 cities and towns across the U.S. Bing deals assembles leading offers from...
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Last fall we released V7 of the Bing Maps Web control. This control is a complete redesign of the previous versions. This was done to make the map control smaller and faster. How much smaller and faster you ask? V7 is 1/3rd the size of V6.3 and renders up to 3x faster.
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This week, Bing and REDU are excited to partner with TED to host a mini-think tank with some of the
leading minds in education. The
TEDActive Education Project will explore such questions as how we might
empower kids to make an impact on education system, and the role of internet and
social media in facilitating conversations around education.
The project
coincides with the annual TED conference in Long Beach where the world’s...
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Sometimes shopping can be overwhelming. With so many choices, at so many different price points, you continually have to refine your search to find something within your budget.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just type what you’re thinking into the search box? Say, “Air Jordans under $100” or “Hudson jeans under $200” and let Bing do the work. With improvements to natural language search arriving in...
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Bing travel crunches over a billion airfares on a daily basis to bring you Price Predictors, and we use that data to uncover cheap airline tickets every day. To help you find great deals even faster, we are introducing “Autosuggest Flight Prices” which display flight prices and the Price Predictor for key markets directly in the search box. Before you ever hit the enter key, you will see our prediction for the best flight price deal...
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A few months ago, we
announced an exciting partnership with Facebook to make search
more social. As part of that work, we introduced Liked
Results, which promotes links your friends have publicly liked or shared
via Facebook. Today we are extending Liked Results to annotate any of the URLs
returned by our algorithmic search results to all users in the US.
While we are very excited to talk about our next development, we’re all...
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In celebration of President’s Day, Bing has created a Visual
Search Gallery highlighting the past 44 US leaders.
Who was the youngest president in office? Which presidents are depicted on US
currency? What were their professions prior to holding office?
Discover all of this and more in a matter of clicks. Use the left rail to
refine your search or simply click one of the tabs to sort by category.
Happy President’s Day!
– The...
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