Bing Blogs - 157

  • Kickin' Off My Career @ MICROSOFT

     I graduated with my Master’s Degree in Human Resources from the University of Minnesota last spring.  Upon graduation, I took an offer from Microsoft and launched my career in the HR Trax program at Microsoft.  HR Trax is an early in career rotational program at Microsoft in which I get great exposure to HR leaders and undertake 1 year rotations in the different HR specialties.  Whether you’re in a program like HR...
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  • Bing’s new social search features arrive today

    Today we are completing our deployment of our new social features that we built in partnership with Facebook. We’re really excited to get these features in the hands of all our US users. As with all the work we do at Bing, we have been focused on user feedback in an effort to make sure the features are really useful to customers, and we have made a couple of changes to the product that we want to make people aware of. Early users told us...
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  • Restoring sanity, one classroom at a time

    I was in New York last week and decided I’d stop by the Donors Choose offices.  I love Donors Choose because when people use their service, they become hooked on supporting education.  They see what a little money can do to help our teachers, our schools, and our kids.  It pays dividends.  So when Charles came into the meeting and told me that they had one of only two tents on the National Mall at this weekend’s...
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  • Play “Decode Jay-Z with Bing” and win

    It’s been 10 days since we launched “Decode Jay-Z with Bing.” In that time, you have discovered over 105 pages of Jay-Z’s upcoming book Decoded. As you know, Jay-Z has placed the pages of his new book, Decoded, out in the world to be found. And he’s partnered with us take you on that journey. At the website bing.com/Jay-Z, you have the chance to piece the pages back together using Bing Maps. As the game unfolds you...
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  • Getting places faster with Bing Local

    Lately there’s been a lot of discussion about how to find what you’re looking for locally. It’s a very large percentage of queries, but providing great results for these searches is a bit different from more general queries. The initial results need to be more specific and take location into account, while still offering quick ways to narrow your search and make your decision about where to go. For example, a search for Chinese...
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  • New Map App: OnTerra’s “RouteSavvy” Route Optimizer

    Inefficient driving routes between multiple waypoints waste time, money, and wear on people’s patience. Beginning today, Bing has set out to help reduce the stress and wasted time caused by inefficient driving routes with the launch of the “RouteSavvy” app in Bing Maps. With this route optimization from OnTerra, people can enter up to 100 addresses into Bing Maps and receive the optimal route between their destinations.
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  • More exciting news from Bing and Yahoo!

    Today we marked a very important milestone in our search alliance with Yahoo!.  As David Pann outlined in his post, as of today, Microsoft’s adCenter advertising platform is now powering all the paid search listings for searchers on both Bing and Yahoo! in the US and Canada. This is exciting news for advertisers looking to reach a broader audience that comprises almost a third of online users in the US and Canada.  This work...
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  • Bing and Microsoft Tag make downloading the perfect app a snap

    With over 300,000 iPhone apps on the market today it can be daunting to wade through the sea of options to find that perfect app. If you’re searching on your device, the screen size and speed can make it even harder. Enter the top iphone app gallery in Visual Search where we bring together many of the most popular iPhone apps, organized by category with details and links to more information about the app, to help you find that perfect app...
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  • Bing sponsors Internet Librarian 2010

    Bing is sponsoring the 14th Annual Internet Librarian 2010 conference in Monterey, California, from October 25-27.  Join us as we demo key Bing features we use as Microsoft research librarians.  We’ll also discuss information search trends over time, and we’ll tackle the challenges we encounter in educating patrons to think critically when validating resources and conducting research.  Bing will be sponsoring the...
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