Mapping the World from Boulder, Colorado - By Nathan

  The Bing Mobile (BITs) group in Boulder, Colorado is constantly developing new areas to bring revenue to Bing and relevance to search through processing and interpreting imagery.  As well, the BITs (Bing Imagery Technologies) group is leading computer vision algorithm development for future Bing Maps initiatives. We are lighting up the Mobile and Local Search experience with real world search, navigation and discovery of information...
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Free Advice From a Recruiter - Kay

Please consider your online presence! Which means those pictures of you doing a wet t-shirt contest should be removed on Facebook. I have a friend who has a job interview this week and she just emailed me to remove a ton of pictures I have of her up on Flickr, a social site where people look for you, too.  While you may have went and made them all private, Bing and other search engines still have cached images of those photos.  I had...
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Meet Steve, A Lead Program Manager in the Ads International Team

 I love working for Microsoft because I am constantly around amazingly smart people that creates endless learning possibilities.  There are so many challenges and problems to solve in this company that I walk away everyday having grown in one way or another.  Whether it is learning a new process, figuring out a new way to solve a problem, or having to just tough it out from the sheer amount of work stretches and grows me.  The...
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Bing Mobile Test Team - Arthur

 My name is Arthur, and I’m the Test Manager for the Mobile Domains and Commerce team.  The MDC team is one of seven teams within the larger Bing Mobile organization, and together we are working to build innovative, world-class, mobile centric features for Bing users.  I love working in the mobile space.  To me, mobile is about immediacy:  who you are and who you’re with; where you are and where you’re...
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Kickin' Off My Career @ MICROSOFT

 I graduated with my Master’s Degree in Human Resources from the University of Minnesota last spring.  Upon graduation, I took an offer from Microsoft and launched my career in the HR Trax program at Microsoft.  HR Trax is an early in career rotational program at Microsoft in which I get great exposure to HR leaders and undertake 1 year rotations in the different HR specialties.  Whether you’re in a program like HR...
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United Way of King County Day Of Caring

September 24th was United Way of King County day of caring in which corporations volunteer for various community projects. Online Services Division had the opportunity to help out at Atlantic Street Teen & Family center, where they painted numerous multi-purpose rooms. Atlantic Street Center’s Mission is to help families and communities raise healthy and successful children and youth. They also pooled money together to donate an Xbox 360...
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Be The First In-Line -BING/MSN Wants to Meet You!

The SHPE Conference is the major event for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc. and the largest technical and career conference for Hispanics in the country. Each year, the SHPE Conference attracts over 5,000 engineering professionals, students and corporate representatives. The conference is an opportunity for engineering companies and corporations to recruit top talent from SHPE membership. It also provides educational, technical...
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Things To Do In Toronto

Visit Wayne Gretzky’s Restaurant Check out the Hockey Hall of Fame See the Distillery District And more importantly, attend the CIKM Conference! Calling all Developers and Researchers! Microsoft’s Bing team will be attending the CIKM conference in Toronto! We are very excited about this conference and can’t wait to demo some of the latest and greatest Bing features! Please stop by our booth and say Hello to Amanda and Nicole...
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A Design Team with Soul - Laura Kern

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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Welcome To Our Super Team – Supratim!

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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