This week, Bing and REDU are excited to partner with TED to host a mini-think tank with some of the
leading minds in education. The
TEDActive Education Project will explore such questions as how we might
empower kids to make an impact on education system, and the role of internet and
social media in facilitating conversations around education.
The project
coincides with the annual TED conference in Long Beach where the world’s...
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Sometimes shopping can be overwhelming. With so many choices, at so many different price points, you continually have to refine your search to find something within your budget. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just type what you’re thinking into the search box? Say, “Air Jordans under $100” or “Hudson jeans under $200” and let Bing do the work. With improvements to natural language search arriving in...
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Bing travel crunches over a billion airfares on a daily basis to bring you Price Predictors, and we use that data to uncover cheap airline tickets every day. To help you find great deals even faster, we are introducing “Autosuggest Flight Prices” which display flight prices and the Price Predictor for key markets directly in the search box. Before you ever hit the enter key, you will see our prediction for the best flight price deal...
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A few months ago, we announced an exciting partnership with Facebook to make search more social. As part of that work, we introduced Liked Results, which promotes links your friends have publicly liked or shared via Facebook. Today we are extending Liked Results to annotate any of the URLs returned by our algorithmic search results to all users in the US. While we are very excited to talk about our next development, we’re all...
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In celebration of President’s Day, Bing has created a Visual Search Gallery highlighting the past 44 US leaders. Who was the youngest president in office? Which presidents are depicted on US currency? What were their professions prior to holding office? Discover all of this and more in a matter of clicks. Use the left rail to refine your search or simply click one of the tabs to sort by category. Happy President’s Day! – The...
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When we look ahead, the one thing we can safely predict is the rate of innovation happening in the 21st century will only get faster. Over the past 10 years, we have seen the rise of a strong online economy, bloody revolutions tweeted globally and the compression of information into tiny amounts of physical space. Thanks to those changes, the cell phone changed its form factor and capabilities, and real-time...
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Bing Maps developers from Earthware, OnTerra and Infusion will discuss Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks in a free webcast at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 1.
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Today we are excited to announce the launch of Bing Bar, available for download here. Engineered from the ground up, the new Bing Bar gives you quick access to all the stuff you do online. Conducting a search, checking Facebook or keeping tabs on email, Bing Bar centralizes the most common things you do while helping you discover new features that let you get the most out of Bing. Because we know you don’t have time to read manuals or watch ...
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The Bing Mobile group in Boulder, Colorado is constantly developing new areas to bring relevance to search through processing and interpreting imagery. When we last met, I had outlined the structure of our team and operations in Boulder, CO. This time around, I’d like to take some time to go a little more in depth on one of our products: Bird’s Eye imagery. One of the challenges our site met in the previous year was...
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Black History Month is in February and Microsoft Jobs Blog takes a moment to speak with our very own Tameiko Davis. Tameiko is a Staffing Manager supporting Bing, and she reflects on the role diversity plays in the hiring process and how Microsoft’s company wide diversity efforts have affected her personally. Take a moment to view the post here: http://jobsblog.com/blog/diversity-and-inspiration-at-microsoft/ .
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