Bing Blogs - 138

Today we unveiled an update to Bing for Mobile Browse (m.bing.com), which includes a number of new features to help you make faster, more informed decisions while on the go. Today’s updates make it easier to share on Facebook, access news, see local listings and directions in one view, reference past searches and view trending topics.   Let’s take a closer look at some of the new features: Share on Facebook – Easily...
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  Sudhakar has been with Microsoft for 12 years and has been with Ad platform team for about 2 years. He has spent all his career in Microsoft in large scale online services. He is currently working in the Relevance and Ranking team shipping algorithms to help improve revenue, and manages a team of about 40 people at this time. Working in the AdCenter test team is a great challenge.  You get to work on leading edge software that runs at...
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As we announced in February, Bing and other major web sites are joining together to participate in World IPv6 Day, this Wednesday, June 8 2011. IPv6 connectivity will be operational beginning this evening at 5:00 p.m. PT and end tomorrow, June 8, at the same time. During this time, we will enable world-wide IPv6 connectivity to www.bing.com . Consumers with IPv6 Internet capabilities will automatically access Bing via IPv6. This necessitates both...
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SMX Advanced search conference kicks off in Seattle today and we’re proud to be a part of the event. The Bing crew will be out in force speaking across a range of topics from social search, SEO tools and the latest in local and mobile. On Wednesday, Bing’s own Stefan Weitz, will discuss the significance of socializing the web and, by proxy, search, potential implications to user behavior, and share practical tips to consider for the...
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Bing and Bing Mobile are doing some phenomenal work in the mobile space ranging from the search experience on your phone to the ability to scan an item with the phone camera. Take a look at some of the other exciting projects we are working on including app connect, Bing Vision and the xbox Live.   http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20064733-85.html
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  Gunjan works on Bing’s Segment Relevance team. This team focuses on ranking relevance and other machine learning problems for various Bing verticals such as commerce, images, and video. Besides the verticals, they also affect the answers triggering on the main Bing page when the user types segment-specific queries, and have recently also launched improvements to the main Bing engine for commerce queries themselves. Gunjan’s...
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The future living room does more than give you great entertainment; it helps you find what you’re looking for and helps you decide what to enjoy. It gives you simplicity, discovery and personal choice. Today at E3, we are excited to preview a new way for people to find movies, games, music and other entertainment: voice search with Bing on Xbox. Today’s announcement opens up your living room entertainment in the same way search engines...
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This is a guest post by Steve Milroy, CEO, of OnTerra Systems 
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We’ve been talking for a while about the need to rethink the search experience to better reflect both the changing web and advancing user habits. One of the biggest challenges and opportunities we see is to literally create a high-definition proxy of the physical world inside of Bing. In other words, we want to be able to model the world in which we all live to the level that search can actually help you make decisions and get things done in...
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Greetings, I am a recent addition to the Microsoft Corporation.  I was lucky enough to land a position on the Global Networking Services Enterprise Solutions team where we design the networks that support the Business Online Services. Prior to Microsoft I worked for a small Cisco Systems partner where we specialized in mid-sized enterprises.  This provided me exposure to a large number of customers all running networks in very different...
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