Bing Blogs - 165

As mobile shopping gets more popular, we want to help you to find and shop products on your iPhone even more effortless.  The new Bing for Mobile iPhone app includes a Shopping section where you can find products, see ratings, and read reviews.  Search with your camera, your voice, or your keyboard to find brand-name products and compare prices.  Not sure what to get for her birthday?  No problem, we provide you with a list of...
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OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the newest layer for Bing Maps. OpenStreetMap follows a similar concept as Wikipedia, but for maps and other geographic facts (despite its name, it’s by no means only limited to streets and roads). A community of map lovers and developers gather location data across the globe and curate it to create OSM.
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Wishing to write a great blog but don’t feel you have time? Your wish is my command! I want to show you some practical ways you can write a blog post AND the best part is that you’re going to get it done in less than 10 minutes. Some might even take 15 minutes, but what is 5 minutes more? Before I begin, let’s cover some scary content-based blanketing the Internet:  quantity does not = quality. Most blog writers know the...
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Are the class lists up yet? Are you starting to look into what school supplies are on your list this year? Well if you are like many of the families right now your kids have started to get the itch to get their school stuff in order. Bing is here to help. Go to Bing shopping to get some of this season’s best deal on supplies, clothes, shoes, gadgets, backpacks and more. With Bing shopping you are able to refine your search by product, price...
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Got a WordPress blog? Want to map out some information for your blog readers? Rich Gubby (@mobilewebjunkie) felt the need and wanted Bing Maps to do it. He took it a step further and created a WordPress plugin that allows for super simple configuration of a Bing Map that you can easily insert into your blog. Bing Maps for WordPress allows you to create maps easily with a [bingMap] shortcode in your posts. 
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Did you know that Apple’s Safari browser has extensions that allow 3rd party services, such as Bing, to add on capabilities such as Bing Search, Bing Travel and arguably most important Bing Maps? Find out more at Microsoft Bing for Safari
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With the latest version of Messenger, you can now bring Bing into your conversations in a few exciting new ways. The first way you will be able to do this is through contextual linking. When a term is recognized, a green dashed line appears under that term. When you click on that word, you are given links from Bing to websites, photos, and videos which you can add to your conversation. Some of the categories of content that Messenger and Bing...
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Last month, we had the pleasure of announcing that, in conjunction with Apple, Bing would be included as one of the search engine choices within Safari. Today, we’d like to introduce our first extension for Safari: Bing Highlights. Bing Highlights brings intelligent, contextually sensitive information to the web pages you’re reading. Using it is easy: just highlight text on a web page. Bing Highlights will recognize interesting...
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What do pool sharks, fancy flowers, sassy hair do’s and spooky fish all have in common? They’re all part of a stellar line up of new casual games that can be found on Bing – available right in the Bing entertainment browser! Earlier this summer Yusuf mentioned casual games were part of our new entertainment experience on Bing and these new games are just one more way we are continuing to expand and deepen your online gaming...
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  It’s the most universal expression in the world – two simple words that convey such a powerful thought. There are thousands of ways to express “Thank you”.  Saying thank you is not only a matter of good manners between people, but also a deep expression of recognition of kindness. The good feeling one gets because of a good deed towards them becomes an inner experience of a positive message projected back on the...
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