Bing Blogs - 152

Whether it’s introducing completely new ways to browse pictures with things like “Infinite Scroll” or helping you filter images by color and composition, a more intuitive and visual image search experience has always been a big focus for us.   To that end, this week we’re excited to introduce improvements in how Bing presents and organizes your image results.   The first thing you will notice is our...
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If you’re searching for sports tickets, soon you will be able to compare tickets from over fifty leading tickets sites, check out the view from the seat and quickly find the best value in Bing. As Satya mentioned today, to help you make better ticket buying decisions we are incorporating FanSnap’s venue maps and comprehensive event catalogue into the Bing experience. View ticket results for more than 15 million tickets to 75,000...
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Today we spent some time in San Francisco to talk with people about the latest release of Bing which is rolling out in the coming weeks. We love getting the opportunity to share what we’re up to and talk about what’s next for search in general and for Bing in particular. There are a number of links below that detail the features going live in the coming days. I encourage you to read the posts, try the product and please let us know...
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The Bing National Tailgating Championship headed down to the Big Easy for this week’s regional finals.      Congratulations to Drago’s Char Broiling Engine Oysters who claimed the right to compete for top tailgating...
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Thank you for helping to make history with Jay-Z Decoded. The response has been amazing and we are happy to announce the winners in the Decode Jay-Z Sweepstakes from www.bing.com/jay-z.  The Grand Prizes have been officially awarded to Keisha T. from Northville, Michigan, and Latifah M. from New York, NY. Keisha has won a trip to Las Vegas to see JAY-Z and Coldplay in concert this  New Year’s Eve and Latifah has won tickets...
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  According to Hitwise², retail related searches are up 36% over 2009. With the holidays in full swing, many shoppers are holding out for last minute deals and looking for the cheapest way to ship their gifts. Bing Search data indicates that the US Postal Service (USPS) has received twice as many queries as United Parcel Service (UPS) this year. The USPS predicts that December 20th will be the busiest day of the year, with more than 800...
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  Tired of filling out forms when booking flights online? With improvements to natural language search arriving in Bing, you no longer have to manually select your airport, destination, dates or other options to conduct a flight search. Just type what you’re thinking into the search box, and let Bing do the work. For example, entering “flights from Boston to Los Angeles in June” will fill in the flight search forms with the...
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Last month, we finally got our hands on the elegant, intuitive Windows Phone 7.  The experience spans the common things we all need to get done every day.  Not surprisingly, what excites us most is what the team has done with Bing on Windows Phone 7.    Now we want to hear from you!   Tweet what you love about Bing to @Bing to enter to win a Windows Phone 7, Samsung Focus available on the ATT Network.  Just include...
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 I am a Senior Program Manager in the DCS – Site Selection and Analytics group within our Online Services Division. Much of my work entails supporting the team that makes the decisions on which locations to build or lease our next datacenter site.  Currently we are figuring out where to grow our datacenter footprint in Europe and Asia along with deciding where our best opportunity to grow is in the USA.   Before I...
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 I work in the Bing Social team which powers Bing’s social search engine. Every day millions of users share ideas, observations, photos and interesting articles on micro-blogging and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Due to the decentralized and instantaneous nature of publishing on such sites, these posts are a very valuable source of “real-time” information on breaking news stories like earthquakes...
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