Bing Blogs - 146

*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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When we look ahead, the one thing we can safely predict is the rate of innovation happening in the 21st century will only get faster.  Over the past 10 years, we have seen the rise of a strong online economy, bloody revolutions tweeted globally and the compression of information into tiny amounts of physical space. Thanks to those changes, the cell phone changed its form factor and capabilities, and real-time...
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Bing Maps developers from Earthware, OnTerra and Infusion will discuss Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks in a free webcast at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 1.
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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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