My name is Mira and I’m a UX lead. I drive the prototyping and UX PM effort within the Design team on Bing. My team of developers and PMs help validate design and concepts through working prototypes. We also drive UX thinking on framework features across the Bing experience.
I’ve worked at Bing for 5 years (previously as Live Search) and have seen it evolve from a pure relevance-focused organization to one that recognizes great...
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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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Steve Coast joined Microsoft in
November 2010 as a Principal Architect. Steve founded OpenStreetMap
in 2004 which is a free and open map of the world. He also co-founded
CloudMade in 2008 that monetizes the map as values moves upstream. Take a
look at Steve’s OpenStreetMap talk at Location Strategies San Jose 2011. http://www.stevecoast.com/talks.html
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I have been working as a user experience and visual designer for Bing since
October 2009. Over the past year and a half, I have gotten to help redefine the
visual look and feel of the product, as well as drive design for several
innovative new features. I see search as a very exciting area to work in because
of the opportunity that I have to organize and visualize the world’s information
in new, more meaningful ways. I think Bing design will...
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Hey bloggers! My name is J.J. and I’m a Test Lead on the Autopilot team within Bing. Have you ever wondered how a massively distributed search engine is built, monitored, and maintained? So did I several years ago when I joined the Bing team (back before it was actually called Bing). My team and I work on testing one of the biggest, baddest, and most highly distributed software applications on the planet. ...
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Hello job seekers! I hope you are off to a great start into the new decade. Now that 2011 has made its grand entrance and we are in a new year, have you thought about a new job? Here is an easy tip to help you prepare for your next interview!
Keep a “kudos” or “You Rock” folder on your computer. Yes, I’m serious! Every time your efforts result in something that gets special recognition from your manager or...
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Microsoft is using social media as foundation for a web-based reality show following the career quests of nine participants. You can follow their exploits online (e.g., at work when the boss isn’t looking), no television required. The Career Factor website went live last week, but the nine participants only started updating their quests yesterday. It’s rare enough to see someone talking about or using social media to advance IT...
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When you type a word or phrase into a search engine, there are a number of things that could go wrong. You might not know how a term is spelled or, in your rush to jump to the results, you could transpose or otherwise mistype some characters. Spelling alteration is a popular search technique used to translate apparent typographical errors, alternative spellings, and synonyms into an improved query that returns the best possible results on the...
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Our world of sourcing/researching/recruiting is much more complicated these days than it used to be. As staffing consultants, you can’t just post an opportunity on job boards and wait for candidates to come – although some “old-schoolers” still do! (you know who you are) As technologies (Internet and mobile) are taking off, we in the staffing industry really need accept how recruiting is quite similar to a...
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