With Valentine’s Day this Sunday, now seems like the perfect time to share our appreciation for you, our Bing users. You inspire us to create great experiences, and we have you to thank for our continued growth. In the last few years, we’ve had the opportunity to meet with many of you face-to-face, over the phone and online. We got to know more about you and the things you’re passionate about during our year-long, multi-city...
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Valentine’s Day is one more great excuse to shower others with love, whether that’s a significant other, your kids or a close friend. At Bing, we see the largest spike in Valentine’s Day related searches three days prior to the holiday, which can be stressful trying to find last minute gift ideas and reservations. To help, Bing has curated relevant content so you can spend less time searching and more time making the day...
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Three weeks ago, we launched the site Are We In?, which gives you the latest status for whether your favorite college basketball team will or won’t make the tournament. Early feedback has been positive, and some users had questions around the insight for how probabilities match with our projections. In this blog we’ll describe in more detail the numbers and use visualizations from the newly-released Power BI “Publish to Web&rdquo...
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Earlier this week, Bing launched the Primaries 2016 experience to provide users a timeline, real-time results and predictions for state primaries and caucuses. The primaries tracker joins the Bing Political Index (BPI), Candidate Trends, and the other features of the Bing Elections experience to provide a simple yet powerful view of the candidates and issues. To complement our online experience, Bing Predicts analyzed public reaction to the fifth...
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The Bing App for the iPhone is now available for Android phones. This new app brings together the information you need, connected to the apps you trust, to help you “find” and “do” faster and easier than ever before. The new Android app gives you the ability to get snapshots of information, available on-tap and in-context, while using other apps. We’re also launching new features for both the iPhone and Android apps...
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A month into the new year means we’re already a month into award season. If you’ve been following along, last month the Bing Predicts team kicked things off with nominees and predictions for the Golden Globe® Awards, accurately predicting the winners of several categories, including Best Motion Picture – Comedy, Best Actress and Actor for a Drama, and Best Animated Film. Also in January, we shared the list of winners for the...
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The pro football season comes to an end with a contest between the top seeds in the two conferences. In Sunday’s title game, the Bing Predicts models project 17-1 Carolina to win the Big Game with 64% probability.  During the regular season, Carolina was the league’s #1 scoring offense and #6 scoring defense, while Denver was the #20 scoring offense and #4 scoring defense.  Carolina’s rush offense was #2 vs #17 for...
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Since its launch on December 8, the Bing Elections experience has been providing a simple yet powerful view of the candidates and issues through the Bing Political Index (BPI), Candidate Trends, and more. As a complement to this, we used the Bing Predicts technology that powers the BPI to evaluate public reaction to the sixth GOP debate, in a similar fashion to our analysis of the third GOP debate back in December. The following information...
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Recent record-breaking Powerball jackpots have created a lot of excitement over the past few weeks. But frequent lottery related searches aren’t new for Bing. In fact, there are 13 times more lottery-related searches on Bing than there are for pension-related searches, and searches for ‘lottery’ surpass those for ‘401k’ at a ratio of 10-to-1. Yet, according to a recent study, more than $2 billion in lottery prizes go unclaimed each year in the US,...
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On February 1, the Iowa Caucus marks the next phase in the 2016 election. In response, Bing’s Election Center will move up a gear to add predictions to the Bing Political Index (BPI), candidate profiles, timeline and more. In an early preview, Bing Predicts is calling Donald Trump to win all four of the February GOP primaries and caucuses, while Hillary Clinton is predicted to take all but New Hampshire, where we see Bernie Sanders winning. The...
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