Attention! Mother’s day this year is on Sunday, May 9. Since it’s usually one of those holidays that sneaks up on you before you get a chance to run to the store to pick up a card or nice flowers (for me anyway), consider this your reminder! With less than two weeks to go, you can now be prepared. Now what to get? We can help there too. Bing has teamed up with celebrity mom, Brooke Burke to share her tips on some easy Mother’s...
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Bing has been partnering with Microsoft Research for the past year on a private beta called Microsoft Web N-gram Services, where research using large data sets surrounding natural computing experiences, such as in linguistics, as well as in queries using spoken words, was being supported.  Today, during the World Wide Web Conference, it was announced that this private beta will become available to professors and students at accredited...
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Last Thursday, NuTsie launched a new iPhone app called Top 100s by Year by Bing and within days it was the #1 download in the App Store. If you haven’t tried it, the app allows you to sort by year from 1948 to 2009 and hear the top songs from those years. Want to know the top songs from the year you were born or relive your high school favorites? Spin the wheel to find the year you’re looking for, click to listen and enjoy! If you...
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What better way to celebrate Earth Day then to congratulate Explorer Eric Larsen and his teammates Antony Jinman and Darcy St-Laurent on their arrival to the North Pole later today. What an amazing accomplishment! We thank them for making the trek to help bring awareness to climate change and for taking Bing along for the ride!  Awhile back we mentioned that we had sponsored explorer Eric Larsen’s Save the Pole expedition, he had just...
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The Bing team has an enormous amount of pride and respect for the community we’re a part of in the Pacific Northwest. We think that this is a special place and are we’re thankful for the people and companies who make living and working here what it is. This is why we’re very pleased to join the Seattle Storm today in announcing a multi-year marquee partnership. This partnership helps Bing engage with Storm’s dedicated fan...
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The Bee is all the Buzz at Bing With more than 200,000 votes cast in the final round of our student Earth Day Photo Contest, we’re pleased to announce that the winning photo was taken by Alan Bosse, a student studying web design at Gulf Coast Community College in Panama City, FL. His photo of a bee gathering the nectar of a passion fruit blossom was chosen by Bing users to be featured on our homepage in honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth...
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The human ability to clearly articulate our ideas with conviction, fortitude and authenticity is something that should be developed and nurtured in our young people. Indeed one of Bing’s core missions is to provide a level of clarity on the web and help people find what they asked but also help them discover things that might be related and helpful to more fully informing them on the topic. We want to foster this love of exploration and...
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We’re happy to announce the 12 finalists in our student Earth Day Photo Contest. Voting is officially open! We were really impressed with the almost 17,000 photos that were submitted across the four age groups. Narrowing it down to the top 3 from each age group was quite a challenge, but we think you’ll like what you see. You can view and vote on all 12 stunning Earth Day themed finalists on the contest site at www...
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Have you ever searched for information on something that is happening right now, only to find out that there’s nothing matching what you’re looking for? News on an earthquake that just happened or information on a hot new product announcement may not show up until hours after the event actually occurred. One of the cool features that we have recently released will give you better relevance with real-time social results from the Twitter...
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This week we unveiled a few updates to Bing shopping to help you do research and find what you’re looking for more quickly. You’ll notice that we’ve created a list of product categories on the left side of the homepage to help you start your search. Just click a category to drill down to other parts of our catalogue to find the products you are looking to buy. We know how much we all love to window shop, just think of this as the...
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