Bing Blogs - 159

Please note that information contained within this post has been updated.  For the latest information regarding Bing social search features please see the following update. – Bing Team, 11/2/2010 As you read in Satya’s post, today we announced a significant expansion of our partnership with Facebook, where Bing will provide much more personalized experiences to you by allowing you to bring your Facebook friends into your...
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Our latest Bing’s Best Windows 7 theme pack puts you in the middle of a storm on the plains, takes you ice fishing with a Kingfisher, and offers a seal’s eye view of a kelp forest. There are 18 wallpapers in all… here’s a sneak peak at a few of them: To download the full theme pack, go to the Windows Personalization Gallery. If you missed the other Bing’s Best themes, you can download them from the same site.  ...
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Can you believe it has already been one year since we were all introduced to Dr. Richard Bing? Recently I re-watched Para Fuera – A Portrait of the Life of Dr. Richard Bing which was an official selection at the 2010 Sundance Film festival and I was again moved by the accomplishments and selflessness that Dr. Bing has. I am grateful that he came here to spread his wings and that we have all benefited and have had the chance to learn from his...
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Today it’s my turn to follow up with news of more goodness from Bing – new routing and geocoding features for Bing Maps REST Services 
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Did October sneak up on you as fast as it did me? All I know is once the calendar reads October the Halloween preparations begin.  Before anything else- before I dust off my box of Halloween decorations, before I figure out what all my friends plans are for that night-  I head online to decide what to dress up like and more importantly to decide what to dress my kids in. OK, maybe not more importantly as one would suspect. Our data...
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I work in the “Paid Search” division within OSD. We are the team that fuels the monetization for Bing Search and now Yahoo search as well. Microsoft’s paid search advertising, aka adCenter, provides an advertising platform for search marketing advertisers to reach to users who are searching for their products.  Search Engine Marketing is projected to be over $25B/year market in the USA in 2011. Within the adCenter product,...
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Bing photo contests have been something that we have had in the past to showcase the photo talent of our Bing enthusiasts on the Bing Homepage. We are now excited to be partnering up with the Windows Live team on a photo contest of their own.  Last week they announced the release of the new Windows Live Essentials 2011 which includes Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Mesh and Family Safety. They are celebrating...
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In the past month since REDU launched, we have seen the call for education reinvention thrust into the middle of a national conversation.  The numbers are staggering – a third of our students never graduate, US ranks 18th out of 21 countries in math and science, over 1 million veteran teachers are set to retire.  So, whether it’s Waiting for Superman, the Education Nation summit, or just over the news, the topic of improving...
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Today Bing and Firefox announced that Bing will be included as one of the search engine choices within Firefox on both the Mac and PC. We’re very excited to be included in the search engine choices in the upcoming version of Firefox.  Having Bing in the “out of the box” list makes it easier than ever for the Firefox community to experience the benefits of Bing. We expect the Bing option to show up in an upcoming build of...
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Yvonne Johnson, lead recruiter at Microsoft has had the pleasure of working with Blaise over the last couple of years.  His innovative thinking has driven Bing Maps into what it has become today and what we will see in the future. In his 2010 presentation at Ted, Blaise demonstrates how Microsoft is bringing augmented reality into searchable maps and provides a new outlook and understanding of how we look at online maps.  Blaise is going...
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