Announcing the Winners of “Decide Your Local Hotspot” Twitter Sweepstakes

  Congratulations to the winners of the Bing “Decide Your Local Hotspot” sweepstakes. On September 29the, we asked you to share your favorite local places with us on Twitter. We got some great suggestions. We are excited to announce the 5 winners: @BillyPadgett, @scosby, @martiferg, @Judge_Dan, and @ericwilborn. Each of them will be receiving a Samsung Focus Windows 7 Phone. Thanks to everyone who entered and stay tuned for...
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@Bing “Decide Your Local Hotspot” and Win a Windows Phone

With the “Mango” update for Windows Phone starting to roll out this week, we thought it would be timely to give five lucky people a brand new Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7 to celebrate. Today (September 29th), we will be tweeting simple questions from the @Bing Twitter handle asking you to decide which local hotspot is your favorite. Let us know a favorite restaurant, watering hole or music venue in your hometown. For a chance...
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Bing Launches Deals

*Update: Bing deals for the desktop is rolling out and will be fully live for all users in the coming weeks. Calling all bargain hunters, deal lovers, Groupon groupies and Living Social fanatics! Things just got easier. Today we’re launching Bing deals for the desktop and mobile (m.bing.com) – giving you access to more than 200,000 unique offers in over 14,000 cities and towns across the U.S. Bing deals assembles leading offers from...
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Getting places faster with Bing Local

Lately there’s been a lot of discussion about how to find what you’re looking for locally. It’s a very large percentage of queries, but providing great results for these searches is a bit different from more general queries. The initial results need to be more specific and take location into account, while still offering quick ways to narrow your search and make your decision about where to go. For example, a search for Chinese...
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