Bing Blogs - 160

Arne Duncan, the U.S. secretary of education, fields your questions in an Oct. 1 webcast. Are crumbling schools putting our nation’s future at risk? Are our teachers prepared for the myriad challenges they meet in the classroom? Is frequent testing giving us a good idea of student success and failure, or distorting comprehensive education for the next generation? MSN and Bing’s REDU initiative are presenting an opportunity for you to...
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We have recently updated the Bing for Mobile Blackberry app.  You can now access Bing Maps by pressing the Bing Maps icon from your Blackberry device.  We have also updated the home screen and added a launcher so you can access local, maps, directions and news faster.                              ...
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When we launched Bing over a year ago, we set out to shake up the search market and try new and innovative approaches to improve the search experience. We’ve been pleased with the positive feedback we’ve heard from customers, and humbled to have seen some great momentum in our early months. We’ll continue to explore new approaches to search and interesting ways to engage users and increase awareness of Bing features. Today marks...
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As the internet continues to evolve, we find there are more new “signals” coming in to search that enable us to provide customers with more relevant, real time and connected results. Our work with Twitter and Facebook over the last year or so has helped us create what is in effect a “social layer” for search that brings social information into the search experience in real time. This is an important investment for us at...
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The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is designed to bring the career interests of women in computing to the forefront. There will be Leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities—leading their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today’s technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research and engineering. Microsoft...
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Bing is sponsoring a “kids owned and operated” event on September 18th (Saturday) called TEDxRedmond chaired by the youngest TED speaker, 12-year old Adora Svitak.  A free, inspirational event for kids by kids, this one-of-a-kind conference will bring some of the most extraordinary youth from Washington State and the nation to share insights, knowledge, and “ideas worth spreading” with their peers. Adora and the...
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 This is one of the most dynamic new frontiers in advertising!  As the Internet and computing are reinvented on mobile devices – ever smaller, more personal and ubiquitous – advertising is evolving very quickly onto mobile. Mobile advertising opportunities currently span a broad range of interactive media, from display to search to messaging to in-application experiences from Microsoft and our syndication partners. Microsoft...
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Earlier this year we announced our partnership with the Seattle Storm where we emphasized our commitment to the Seattle community and highlighted how women in sports can inspire and engage kids through watching players like Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson compete in world-class WNBA basketball. With the news from last nights WNBA finals we are beyond excited that the Seattle Storm has swept the 2010 postseason and claimed the second WNBA championship...
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Microsoft and Online Services Division (OSD), the people who brought you Bing, Bing Mobile, MSN, and more, are attending the NBMBAA annual conference in Los Angeles, CA. We will be there meeting and greeting the best and brightest NBMBAA has to offer. We will have hiring managers present to discuss real time openings and how it is to work for a great company like Microsoft. Some of the skills we are looking for are Product Management, Product...
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Testing at Bing provides many fun challenges in an agile environment that ships quickly and frequently.    Testing distributed systems like Autopilot that control thousands of machines requires deep engineering knowledge and understanding of algorithms like PAXOS.   Testing takes a whole new direction with verifying the output from the 3 new tech majors (Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Analytics/Statistics).  ...
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