Bing Blogs - 162

 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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Commuters rejoice! Today Bing Maps added transit routing to its directions options. So, for those of you who like to take the bus, subway, or local rail you now can turn to Bing Maps. This is a very important feature for us as public transit grows in popularity and coverage. 
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The idea of connecting people to information is something that the team here at Bing strongly believes in and something that we know teachers across the world do every day.  Bing provides data and a service that empowers teachers with tools and students with a vast amount of knowledge, giving them the ability to learn and explore both in and outside their classrooms.  We’ve demonstrated our support, especially in the classroom...
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We are very excited about the IE9 beta launch today in San Francisco. The team has put a lot of work into building a browser that helps to unlock the beauty of the web. Bing was one of several publishers to preview some new possibilities from the combination of fully hardware accelerated HTML5 in IE9. We are very excited about the new capabilities in IE9 and how they can be used to provide a very rich search experience.     ...
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The title “Product Manager” means a lot of things at a lot of different companies.  What does a Product Manager on the Bing team do?  Put simply, product management in Bing is about global business leadership.  We are responsible for identifying customer insights that inform R&D investments; guiding the division by developing near and long-term business plans; enabling the field to successfully launch and sell our...
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Google rolled out a new search enhancement that shows results when you type, called Google Instant. While it’s true that this feature is innovative, one should question whether innovation equates to more relevant search results. In truth, there is no correlation between speed and quality or relevance of results. So, when you get the 10 blue links does the fact you got them faster mean the search and results were smarter? After all, Aesop...
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My last blog post was about resume tips for developers.  Since I am a technical recruiter, I spend a lot of my time talking with candidates, hiring managers and reviewing resumes.  As a recruiter at Microsoft, you juggle the precarious task of candidate experience, hiring manager experience, diversity and inclusion and striving to find the right talent.  We are serious about all areas.  So what better way to enhance the...
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