Today, Bing is announcing that its knowledge and action graph will be available to developers via a new API. With this new API, developers can enhance their apps by exposing rich data from the Bing knowledge and action graph directly in their apps. Whether you have a messaging app or a music app, your users shouldn’t have to “go to search” to get information related to what they’re doing in your app. With Bing’s new API, you can expose the...
Read More

Earlier this summer, we introduced new features to make it easier to discover, browse and watch news stories on the go. However, it’s often hard to make sense of what’s really going on with so many individual news stories to follow. Now, we’re making it easier to connect the dots between news stories so you get the bigger picture.   If you’re like many folks (the Bing team included!) who read news on your smartphone, you may not have the time to...
Read More

It’s August, which means parents and students are starting to think about the start of a new school year. The return to the classroom brings a mix of excitement and nervousness. To better understand what is top-of-mind for parents preparing for the 2015-`16 school year, with the goal of helping users find valuable resources, Bing tapped into its rich search data and predictions algorithms. The Bing predictions technology compiled a list of...
Read More

Bing Search is currently expanding the Bing warnings program to include thousands of additional sites that have been identified by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) as “Not Recommended Sites,” which the NABP states includes “internet drug outlets that appear to be out of compliance with state or federal laws or NABP patient safety and pharmacy practice standards.”  Under this new...
Read More

Back in March we launched a new site called Bing Listens. The site gives our customers a direct line of communication to the team developing Bing features. Bing Listens is a place to contribute your thoughts on how to make Bing better, vote on the ideas you like best, and share the cool and unique ways you use Bing. Our team actively reviews the ideas and responds to them every day. In the first few months alone, we’ve seen more than a thousand...
Read More

The 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada was a rousing success for the United States as the team defeated Japan with a 5-2 rout.  Bing Predicts completed the knockout rounds with 75 percent accuracy, notably picking England to beat both host Canada as well as Norway in the first two rounds and US over Japan in the final.  In the preliminary rounds, Bing Predicts correctly projected all six group winners and got 58 percent of the win, loss or tie...
Read More

Moving to a new city or new neighborhood is as exciting as it is stressful. In addition to grappling with the big decision of finding a new home, other considerations can include school choices, availability of services such as healthcare and what a new neighborhood has to offer beyond a place to live. To help answer some of these questions, the Bing team has released new and improved experiences for researching homes, schools and doctors in the U...
Read More

When we set out to redesign Bing Maps, we listened to a lot of user feedback. People using a variety of map sites, from a variety of countries, told us what they love about, and what they struggle with when using map services. We heard that people want one experience that brings together the best content in one view, that fully reflects what they are planning, not just their last search. Users want a map experience that is fast and easy to use...
Read More

Two of the most important things we strive for at Bing are for consumers to choose Bing as their search service and for industry leaders to trust Bing to provide search to their customers. Today we announced an exciting new partnership with AOL. Beginning January 1st, 2016 Bing will become the exclusive provider of search and search advertising services across AOL properties. Now with 20% market share in U.S., we are continuing to grow through...
Read More

If you’re among the millions who will visit Bing’s homepage today, you’re in for a surprise. Not only will you see a beautiful video of geese taking flight over the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, you’ll also have the option to hear them. Simply click the icon located at the bottom-right of the homepage for the full experience. Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, California (© Corbis) Every day, the Bing homepage brings you a new view of the...
Read More