One of the things we’ve tried to do with Bing is to bring customers the information they are looking for, presented in a useful way. If we can adequately infer a user’s intent, we can bring them a much more compelling experience than an endless list of links. We can bring them real knowledge and get them closer to the answer they were looking for or the decision they were trying to make. At Bing, this journey began with our work on...
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When Bing launched back in June, our aim was to bring innovation to search in three important areas: Provide great results to help reduce the amount of time people spend searching and clicking on bad links Offer a richer, more organized experience to help people refine questions they ask of search engines as well as and provide innovative experiences based on what users are trying to accomplish Develop tools that help simplify key tasks...
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  The Hallways here are all a flutter as we celebrate with our MSN teammates. Today marks another milestone in the history of the MSN Homepage. With a new, streamlined and less cluttered appearance you will be able to navigate more quickly to the information and services you use on a daily basis like online videos, local information, news, entertainment, sports, money, lifestyle and of course your familiar Bing search experience built in...
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Every now and then you see something so awesome you have to share it. The blog almost writes itself. We just have to spell check it and post it. You may remember the Bing Jingle contest.  You may even remember the winning entry and its impact on the Internet as we know it.  Okay maybe that is a bit of hyperbole but it was pretty funny.  Well it’s gone viral. Again. Our story begins in the Keith Valley Middle School in...
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Today we are celebrating the 100th birthday of a very special man and it all started with a fax to Mich Mathews, our SVP of Marketing.  I’ll admit it was a little strange – it came from a man named Dr. Richard Bing who said he was 99 years old and would love to do something with us since we “used his name for our new search engine”.  Mich routed it around to Carver and I and we both said, “huh, this is...
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Have you ever wanted to delve deeper into the Bing homepage, and learn even more about the daily image? The recently launched Reference homepage is a great place to start. From the Bing homepage, click “more,”then click “Reference,” to be taken to Bing Reference’s very own homepage. Or you can always access Reference directly by going to http://www.bing.com/reference. Bing Reference is a product of the Powerset team...
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We are through the first week of the Bing Jingle contest, and it’s time to show off the entries that have been submitted so far.  We’ve seen ballads, clever use of the Bingtones, a poem, and some songs that baffled us a bit and we’ve loved each and every entry in their own special way. Check them out and let us know which ones YOU like best: (Please visit the site to view this video)  There is still time to enter, so...
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Somehow the Bing team ended up spread practically equidistant across the country tonight, so we thought we should warn all of you.  First, here at home, Bing is sponsoring an epic Ping Pong tourney at the sold-out Tech Flash event where VCs, startups, journalists and people who like BBQ will all congregate and be merry.  The Bing team (Stefan and Aya) will live broadcast from the event starting at 5pm Pacific (if only for a few minutes...
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We are in the final round of voting for the Bing Home Page Photo Contest!  Thousands of amazing photos have been submitted and voted for, which has made it very difficult to limit ourselves to only 8 finalists.  During the selection process we looked for photos that would draw people in, tell a story and make you want to find out more. And of course, they had to work within the confines of the page and that adhere to the official...
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As part of our ongoing efforts to explore options in real-time search, we’ve partnered with Federated Media and Twitter to create BingTweets which fuses Bing search results and real time content from Twitter in an interesting new interface. How does partnering with Twitter make Bing a more effective decision engine? Many people share their thoughts on Twitter, and search engines don’t currently do a great job of capturing that real...
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