Today the Microsoft Research team will be at SIGIR 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland discussing new updates to the Web N-gram service and participating in a number of other workshops as well as a Keynote. Where you can Find Microsoft at SIGIR: Keynote: Refactoring the Search Problem to Exploit Difference Between Clients and Servers Dr. Gary Flake, Microsoft, Director of Live Labs Workshops: · Crowd Sourcing for Search Evaluation ·...
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Bing is getting some exciting enhancements today as we roll out our spring wave of features. Our user research guided us to make an investment bet in entertainment, built some great new decision-making tools in areas like autos and finance that continue our journey toward a better understanding of your search intent so we can match it with more effective and relevant tools and information. In this post, I want to share some specific changes we...
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Today we’re stoked to have an update to the Bing app for iPhone and iPod Touch for all of you. There are a few new features to tell you about – some of which you’ll see right on the new home page. Social – Now you can connect your Facebook and Twitter accounts and see combined status updates from your friends from within the Bing app. But that’s easy. When we asked what else we could do with this personal...
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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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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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By now you’ve probably seen the new MSN homepage, which made its official debut in March. The page cuts through the clutter with a cleaner, more simplified design that integrates search, news, local, social networking, and more. We are very excited to reach this milestone, which marks MSN’s biggest redesign in over a decade. We’re also very excited that Bing is widely integrated into the new experience, providing more...
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Some folks take coals to Newcastle – I take beer bottle openers to Australia. Though I’m officially on vacation, we Bing folks never really rest, especially when there’s an opportunity to spread Bing love via beer. Constant vigilance is our watchword! So the place I got to share the Bing love was Silicon Beach drinks at the Grace Hotel in Sydney. While others spent their Friday-after-Thanksgiving bloated from turkey and...
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Great news.  All the new features we blogged about last week are live for 100% of our users.  Many of you may have seen them over the past few days as the ramp progressed, but now everyone can take full advantage of the great work the team has done in this fall wave for Bing. I wanted to point that out because recently, to my complete surprise, I was told that all of you don’t follow every single one of Bing’s developments...
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When you search for Football, what kind of answers do you expect to find. Well, I guess it depends on where you are doing the asking, if you are in the UK you probably don’t want to see NFL schedules. You probably mean what we in the US call soccer. Well today, millions of searchers in the UK can rest assured that Bing knows what they are talking about. We are excited to announce today that Bing in the UK is shedding its beta tag.  We...
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You have (hopefully) read our post on our exciting collaboration between Bing and Wolfram|Alpha to bring some of the amazing computational knowledge of Wolfram|Alpha into the Bing experience. We had the privilege of sitting down and talking with none other than Stephen Wolfram himself a few weeks back to get his take on this exciting challenge of making more of the world’s knowledge computable. Below are some excerpts from that conversation,...
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