Sometimes it really feels good to be where you are. Like now. I wouldn’t trade the positive press and love letters from customers that Bing design has been getting for much of anything. (“Microsoft is out innovating Google, especially in design…”) I don’t say that to sound like a marketing sound bite, but because I need to savor it… it’s been such a l-o-n-g time coming. It’s been just as hard to...
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I work in the “Paid Search” division within OSD. We are the team that fuels the monetization for Bing Search and now Yahoo search as well. Microsoft’s paid search advertising, aka adCenter, provides an advertising platform for search marketing advertisers to reach to users who are searching for their products.  Search Engine Marketing is projected to be over $25B/year market in the USA in 2011. Within the adCenter product,...
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Yvonne Johnson, lead recruiter at Microsoft has had the pleasure of working with Blaise over the last couple of years.  His innovative thinking has driven Bing Maps into what it has become today and what we will see in the future. In his 2010 presentation at Ted, Blaise demonstrates how Microsoft is bringing augmented reality into searchable maps and provides a new outlook and understanding of how we look at online maps.  Blaise is going...
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I work in the knowledge domain group which is responsible for powering the Bing Health vertical.  From a professional perspective, the work is challenging. The search world is ever advancing, and we are at the cutting edge of technology.  But what makes Bing Health special is the feedback we are getting from our users. You see, researching health on the web is not like trying to figure out which restaurant to go to or finding the best...
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Microsoft strives to be the leader in attracting women to careers in technology. We believe that diverse ideas and representation add value to our corporate community and to our products. Microsoft and Online Services Division (OSD) which includes: Bing, Bing Mobile, MSN, and Online Advertising will be at SWE 10, the Annual Conference for Women Engineers from November 4-6 in Orlando, FL. Our goal is to make long lasting connections with Women...
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Working in the AdCenter test team is a great challenge. You get to work on leading edge software that runs at very large scale. The testing is still evolving as we have to find the right rhythm to support frequent releases and balance testing in the lab as well as testing some features in production.  The other major work challenge we have is trying to figure out the right way to scale our testing to 3-5x the current volume of traffic in...
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At the end of October, I’ll be attending the National Society of Hispanic MBAs conference & career expo in Chicago, IL. Myself, about 30-40 of my Microsoft staffing colleagues, and roughly 8,000 current MBA students and graduates will be gathering in the Windy City with two common goals: to eat our weight in deep-dish pizza and to network like crazy.  Our fantastic campus recruiting team will be there interviewing current MBA...
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Data centers get a lot of publicity because of the rate of growth and the amount of power consumed across the globe.  Companies that provide content and applications, as well as end users, just expect things to work.  Everyone expects to find anything they need online, from every device they own, and it should always be available.  This requires careful planning to stay ahead of demand, precise coordination of maintenance...
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  I asked recruiters, hiring managers, for their top “pet peeves” things they see on resumes that make them                                                      ...
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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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