Bing Search Blog - Posts tagged with 'Holiday Shopping'

Make your list and check it twice because the biggest shopping weekend of the year is just a few short days away. But before you head to the store or log on to your favorite shopping sites, head to Microsoft Edge and Bing, to get several new tools to help you find the perfect gifts and save money. Get access to coupons with Microsoft Edge and Cortana Microsoft Edge notifies you of the best coupons Cortana can find for a retailer without you ever...
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The holidays are a stressful time. Whether you’re preparing to host a big family dinner or trying to find the closest tree farm, Bing can help you spend less time worrying about the logistics and more time enjoying fun holiday activities with your friends and family. That’s why we’ve pulled together a list of some of our favorite features and search tips to help you check those last-minute holiday “to-dos” off your...
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That Holiday Feeling Even after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you might walk the halls around your office at lunchtime and still find a lot of your colleagues shopping online for the holidays. And they’ll be in good company. This year, according to shop.org, online sales will jump 12% over last year to $96 billion dollars this holiday season. Because nearly half of all that online shopping will start from search engines, we wanted all...
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  To cap the first week of the Bing Magic Holiday Calendar, we are ending with a bang. Visit the calendar today for a chance to win free concerts for a year. Our partners at Live Nation are giving the gift that keeps giving – a year of free tickets to your favorite concerts. So go enter and while you’re waiting to see if you won, check out Bing Events.   You can find everything from tour dates, VIP packages and through...
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  It’s that time of year. It’s time to start racking your brain to figure out what to get the person who has everything, arming yourself for mall combat and assembling your holiday gift list. To help you get the jump on planning, we invited Susana Yee to join our #BingIt Twitter chat this Wednesday, November 16th from 12-1pm PST. A fashion industry veteran, Susana runs the popular blog ShoppingandInfo.com which highlights...
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As Black Friday approaches, should you plan ahead or procrastinate this holiday season? While Black Friday warriors may get their list done sooner, procrastinators who wait until the last minute to make their purchases hope to take advantage of deeper discounts from retailers as the holiday nears.. If you’re a last minute December shopper, you’ve got lots of company. Called the December Dash, Researchers at Microsoft (1) found that in...
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My sister is one of those smug shoppers that purchased her final Christmas gift back in August, but perhaps you’re normal like me and you still need a couple last-minute gifts. Maybe you’ve come up blank and have no idea what to get your mother-in-law. You may have forgotten someone on your list, received an unexpected gift and now feel obligated to reciprocate, or maybe you just procrastinated and now you need to pull the shopping...
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  I guess you might say I know a thing or two about bargain shopping. I’m good at it. So good, I bargain-shopped myself into a horrible mess—with a life-ruining load of credit-card debt to prove it! The experience of paying back every dime taught me a lot about myself. I need limits. I have to set a limit for how much I will spend for Christmas. And then I have to parent myself to make sure I stay within that set amount no matter...
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Are you sitting down? Do you have your coffee in hand? Well! Let the holiday shopping begin! Go to www.bing.com/cashback to start your holiday shopping off right. Below is a list of the participating merchants in this year’s Bing cashback Holiday Gold Rush promotion, which kicks off today. AT&T/MEC 35% Barnes & Noble.com 14% Best Buy 10% Buy.com 5% Circuit City 12.2% (search) and 8% (Bing shopping)* Dell 20...
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Time is of the essence when it comes to holiday shopping and each year my “to buy for” list keeps getting longer and longer…one thing that could help me is a little extra holiday spending money. Luckily, starting Friday the Bing cashback team will be hosting the Bing cashback Holiday Trivia sweepstakes from the @bingcashback twitter handle where you can enter to win some serious spending money! For twelve days Bing cashback...
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