Bing for Mobile Browse Gets More Social

Today we unveiled an update to Bing for Mobile Browse (m.bing.com), which includes a number of new features to help you make faster, more informed decisions while on the go. Today’s updates make it easier to share on Facebook, access news, see local listings and directions in one view, reference past searches and view trending topics.   Let’s take a closer look at some of the new features: Share on Facebook – Easily...
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Watch The Hangover Part II Red Carpet Event Live on Facebook.com/Bing

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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Facebook Friends Now Fueling Faster Decisions on Bing

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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Bing Feature Update: Share Your Dreams with Bing Travel Wish List

If you’re like me, you probably have a long list of places you’d like to visit in your lifetime. I bet your friends and family have their own lists as well. But up to now, there hasn’t been an easy way to share these dreams with your friends and see what travel aspirations they have. Bing Travel Wish List is a Facebook app that provides both armchair and active travelers a way to track, share, and compare their travel goals with...
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Bing for Mobile Updates Launch Today

As Satya outlined in his post, it’s an exciting time for Bing for Mobile. Last month, Windows Phone 7 hit store shelves showcasing an intuitive implementation of Bing, organizing search alongside the most common things that you do every day. The excitement continues today with the launch of updates to the Bing for Mobile iPhone and Android Apps. The updates streamline how you discover relevant local information, allowing you to do more...
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Bing’s new social search features arrive today

Today we are completing our deployment of our new social features that we built in partnership with Facebook. We’re really excited to get these features in the hands of all our US users. As with all the work we do at Bing, we have been focused on user feedback in an effort to make sure the features are really useful to customers, and we have made a couple of changes to the product that we want to make people aware of. Early users told us...
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New Signals in Search: The Bing Social Layer

The technology search engines employ to retrieve that needle in the information haystack is staggering and humbling; it’s one of the things that get us fired up to come to work at Bing every day.   Today we announced an exciting expansion to our long-term partnership with Facebook.  Specifically, we are rolling out some new features that allow you to take your friends with you into your Bing experience, both at www.bing.com as...
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Bing Gets More Social with Facebook

Please note that information contained within this post has been updated.  For the latest information regarding Bing social search features please see the following update. – Bing Team, 11/2/2010 As you read in Satya’s post, today we announced a significant expansion of our partnership with Facebook, where Bing will provide much more personalized experiences to you by allowing you to bring your Facebook friends into your...
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Show Your Soccer Team Pride with the New Fan Flair App on Facebook

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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Bing Goes Farming

O.K. – pop quiz: which social media game boasts an active fan-base of roughly 31 million players every day?  Here’s a hint: it’s a happy place where you can plant virtual crops that can be harvested, or ask your neighbor to chase away raccoons. If you guessed Farmville, then you’re correct!     Earlier this week, we began an advertising pilot with Zynga, the folks who brought you Farmville. ...
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