Last spring we introduced the Photosynth app to the U.S. designed to let you capture and hare amazing panoramas of your favorite places. Since releasing the app, over 6 million people have downloaded it and we’ve been hearing amazing feedback from our users which range from professional photographers with DSLRs, avid photographers with point-and-shoots to novice photographers just getting started. Our favorite part has been enjoying the...
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SXSW Interactive is quite the experience. If you’ve been there, you know what we’re talking about. If you haven’t been, one way to think about it is like attending a baseball game of a winning team. Crushing crowds, deafening noise, and hype. Lots of it. Die-hards will lament how the experience is no longer about just the game. It’s more of a spectacle than a sport. Too many bobblehead nights and garlic fry hangovers. But...
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  March Madness is nearly upon us and if you’re like the 60 percent of people who answered a recent MSN online survey you will be filling out a bracket for the NCAA Tournament this year. To help stack the odds in your favor, we have enlisted  RushtheCourt.net to give you the inside track on college hoops. Rush the Court an independent voice covering college basketball including all 31 Division I conferences from coast to coast...
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Dr. Harry Shum, Corporate Vice President, Bing R&D I’ve been working in search at Microsoft for the last seven years and there has never been a more fascinating or challenging time to be in the search space. Today, search spans the entire spectrum of computer science from distributed systems and machine learning to natural language understanding and user experience design. The graph theory we learned in graduate school 20 years ago with...
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Dr. Jan Pedersen, Chief Scientist for Core Search at Bing If you compared the results you see with Bing today with those of our search product five years ago, at first glance they might seem similar – ten blue links presented with text summaries. However, if you look closer you would see some important differences. The first thing you would notice is that many of the queries you perform today produce excellent results that would have simply...
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Spring is in the air and spring break is around the corner. For those of you who haven’t locked down your getaway plans, we’ve enlisted the Fareologists at Bing Travel to help. The team has scoured millions of round-trip itineraries to give you the low down on the spring travel landscape as well as tips on how you can break away without breaking the bank. Here are the highlights: Overall, airfare is up 4.1 percent from the 2011 spring...
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Today the Windows Team announced the availability of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview at a Microsoft event in Barcelona. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview availability, along with the opening of the Windows Store, will make exciting new apps available to everyone. Bing is part of excitement with three new apps now available in the Windows Store so the excitement is buzzing for us over here on the Bing team as well. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview, ready...
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  The stage is set and the red carpet is primed to roll out for The 84th Annual Oscars telecast airing live this Sunday, Feb. 26 (7 pm ET/ 4 pm PT) on ABC. To get you in the spirit, @Bing will be taking a look back at the epic moments from the Academy Awards over the years and we want to hear from you. On Sunday, February 26th, we will tweet a question from the @Bing Twitter handle asking you to complete the statement ‘I think...
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Whether it’s an old friend, a former classmate or (ahem) yourself, searching for people is one of the most common things we do on the web. Last year, we took the first step to bring expanded search results of your Facebook friends into Bing, making it easier to find friends and friends of friends more quickly.  With people search being such a high volume pastime, we’re taking it a step further letting you have more...
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  Oscar season is in full swing and TV personality, Tonight Show correspondent and Chelsea Lately regular and guest host,  Ross Mathews, will be in the center of the red carpet action on the 26th. You have a chance to get Ross’ inside perspective on this year’s Oscars. He will be our guest on this week’s #BingIt chat where he will share his take on what to expect at this year’s Oscars. Join us Wednesday, February...
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