Today is the official kick off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup! And we thought what better way to show your team pride then to deck yourself out in your team’s colors and share it with your friends. No matter what team you are rooting for over the next few weeks you can show your pride with our new Fan Flair Facebook App that you will only find on the Bing’s Facebook page. First start by choosing a photo, next select your favorite team...
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Back in October of last year, bing.com/twitter launched the first ever search experience powered by the Twitter firehose. Today at SMX Advanced, Bing’s Senior Vice President, Yusuf Mehdi, sat down with Danny Sullivan to announce bing.com/social – the first search experience integrating the full Facebook firehose with non-pages content. Below are some of the highlights that you will find on bing.com/social which will be live later today...
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Excitement is building around the world for Soccer (football) fans in anticipation for the most prestigious soccer tournament, the FIFA World Cup South Africa.  We are doing a few things over here at Bing to help you keep up to date on all of the latest details, stats, scores, and news for your favorite teams and players. Below are just some of the ways that Bing will be bringing you your FIFA World Cup information so be sure to keep...
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The Earth Day Photo Contest didn’t end on April 22. Oh, no. Participants continued redeeming DonorsChoose.org codes to support public schools, we had a blast hosting the four division winners here in Redmond and because you asked, we created a Win 7 Theme Pack with all photos from the 12 finalists. We just got the numbers in and we’re thrilled to report that contest participants made donations totaling more than $110K towards classroom...
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Apple today announced that Bing will be included as one of the search engine choices within Safari on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and within the Safari browser on the Mac and PC. Needless to say, we are excited that Bing will be included as an option in Safari because it will make it easier for you to search and get the benefits of Bing. We’ve been working with Apple over the last couple of months to deliver a fantastic Bing offering for Safari...
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SMX Advanced will always hold a special place in our Bing heart.  After all, it was from this very show last year that we had the honor of releasing Bing to the world.  And what a journey it’s been so far.  So, what do we have in store for this year’s show?  Starting tomorrow, Bing and Microsoft Adverting will have another strong presence anchored by Yusuf Mehdi’s keynote chat with Danny Sullivan on Day...
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Today at Tech Ed, 2010 in New Orleans, LA we’re announcing some big additions to Bing Maps which focus around both developers and end users. First, we’re officially announcing an SDK for developers to build Map Apps for Bing Maps. Bing Map Apps are web services that are being integrated as an application layer within Bing Maps. With the release of the SDK, developers can now create their own map apps built on top of Bing Maps and...
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One of the principles we have here at Bing is to constantly experiment and learn. We do this to ensure we are keeping pace with new social and technology trends, and can continue to deliver great value for our customers and advertisers. As part of this “test-and-learn” mentality, we will be retiring the Bing cashback feature, which means that the last day you can earn cashback will be July 30, 2010. Why are we doing this? When we...
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Our latest Bing’s Best Windows 7 theme pack gives you even more great Bing homepage images for your desktop. Bing’s Best 3 lets you gaze at a dying star, soar over an underwater sinkhole, and get up close and personal with an adorable baby sea turtle. There are 19 wallpapers in all… here’s a sneak peak at a few of them: To download the full theme pack, go to Bing’s Best 3. If you missed the other Bing’s Best...
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One year ago today, we launched Bing. It’s been a whirlwind 12 months, with the team shipping tons of new cool features aimed at making it easy and fast to make key decisions and just get stuff done. We wanted to take a short break to say thanks. Thanks to all our customers who have used the service, sent feedback, become partners, told us where we can do better, read our blog, retweeted our tweets, and just generally supported us in this...
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