Coming To a Windows Phone Near You: Mango
The Windows Phone team officially unveiled their next major release, codenamed Mango, today. Over here at Bing we are just as excited as they are about the great new features this release includes but naturally, the expanded Bing features are what really get us pumped up, so let’s start there.
Some of our favorite new Bing features include:
Bing vision and music search for identifying and learning...
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Last night, Bing was on the red carpet celebrating the premiere of The Hangover Part II at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Ross Mathews got the scoop from the “wolfpack” with questions provided by you on Facebook.com/Bing and Twitter ahead of the event.
For those of you who weren’t able to catch the live stream we’ve pulled together interviews from the cast at www.binghangoverpart2.com Check out the...
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This week we rolled out a new set of features that help you make better decisions by delivering a more personalized search experience based on the opinions of your friends on Facebook. In that spirit, we are pleased to be a part of the sequel to the most popular “friend” comedy of all-time: The Hangover Part II. Bing will be covering the premiere live on the red carpet from Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood and you’re...
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At Bing, our mission is to help you make faster, more informed decisions. We designed a new way to experience search, focusing on great design, task completion, instant answers, and vertical categories like shopping and travel to help you make decisions faster. While we’ve made great strides in these areas, there is a huge opportunity for improvement. Today, search remains largely driven by facts and links – we think it’s time to...
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We recently teamed with Xtranormal to give people a shot at fame and fortune. Aspiring film makers were invited to visit: http://www.xtranormal.com/bing/ and create a 2 minute (or under) video highlighting the theme “decisions” across three genres: horror, action and romance. Our goal at Bing is to help you make informed decisions and this contest highlighted a whole new look at decisions.
Last night at the Tribeca Film Festival in New...
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A few weeks ago, we celebrated the launch
of Internet Explorer 9 and highlighted how you can get the most out of Bing
on the world’s most popular browser.
In our quest to make Bing super easy to use from any browser, last October we
announced our work with Mozilla to make Bing one of the default search engine
choices in Firefox 4. Today we are proud to showcase the work we’ve done with
Mozilla to make it easier to use Bing on...
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Planning a trip? With Bing’s new attractions pages you can find everything
you’re looking for in one spot. Bing pulls together details on top city
attractions like the Space Needle or the Smithsonian so you can quickly find the
information you’re looking for. Everything you need to plan your excursion –
including reviews, events and photos – are now in one place. To ensure you have
up-to...
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Today, our friends on the Internet Explorer team released the latest version of the world’s most used browser, Internet Explorer 9. Please join us in wishing them a heartfelt congrats!
Over 40 million people downloaded the Beta version of IE9 and already 250 top sites and over 1000 other partners from around the globe have taken advantage of IE9 capabilities to deliver differentiated experiences to their customers. Internet...
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Will Black Swan take best picture? Will Glee beat Modern Family? Did Ricky Gervais just say that?
On Sunday, Hollywood’s brightest stars will swarm the 68th Golden Globes Ceremony to find out the who will take home the globe. For those of you who can’t make it, Bing and MSN Entertainment are rolling out the red carpet to help you get the most out of the show.
Golden Globe Instant Answer
Simply search for “Golden...
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Bing and Microsoft Research are enlisting the help of researchers and students from around the world to take part in the Speller Challenge. We are all familiar with the experience of search engines providing results based on a common misspelling or typo:
This technique, called Spelling alteration, is the predominant way for search engines to translate typing errors, alternative spellings, and synonyms with the goal of providing the best results...
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