If you’re using a Windows Phone in the US, you may have noticed that the voice capabilities on your phone have gotten better. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been rolling out updates to Windows Phone customers, to improve the speed and accuracy of voice to text and voice search. Now when you compose a text message or search using your voice, Bing will return results twice as fast as before and increase accuracy by 15 percent. Check out...
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Father’s day is nearly here and to celebrate all of the fathers in our lives, Bing is partnering with LL COOL J to host The Bing It On Father’s Day Challenge on June 11th at The Standard hotel in New York City. To enter to win a ticket for you and a friend to attend this exclusive event, follow @Bing on Twitter and then retweet this tweet. We will randomly select one lucky winner on Friday, June 7. Official rules here...
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Summer is upon us, and as your family prepares for some fun in the sun, Bing has partnered with shopping and savings expert Andrea Deckard from SavingsLifestyle.comto co-host this week’s #BingIt chat on how to make sure you don’t miss out on the best summer deals.
Join us on Wednesday, June 5th from noon – 1pm PT/3pm – 4pm ET, as Andrea will discuss and share advice on snagging great dealsthis summer and on planning...
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Over the past couple of years, we’ve been lucky enough to work with product teams across Microsoft to include the capabilities of Bing in some of our most exciting products. Whether Xbox, Windows Phone, Office or Windows 8, we’ve begun a journey to make it easier to find the stuff you are looking for and take action on your favorite Microsoft devices. Today we take another important step in that journey, as the Windows team took the...
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On the Bing homepage, our mission over the past 5 years has been to help you explore the world around you, to seek out new views and new angles. Today, we’re boldly going where no homepage has gone before. Visit Bing today and enter one of our secret phrases in the search box to be transported to the Final Frontier.
To see all of the fun things we have going on around Star Trek, check out yesterday’s post. More...
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In anticipation of the upcoming release of Star Trek Into Darkness we have teamed with Paramount Pictures to help you get it in the Starfleet Spirit. On May 16th, the next installment of Star Trek hits theaters and we’ve been hard at work on a set of fun Bing features to celebrate your inner-Trekker.
Speak Klingon/ : Just in time for your next dinner party or interplanetary skirmish, we’re releasing Klingon to Bing Translator. Now...
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A few weeks ago we invited you to experience updates to Snapshot – the center column that shows you answers at a glance. With Snapshot, we’re able to provide a richer set of search results that help you understand the world around you and take action. Since people searches are the second most searched for category, after navigational queries, and represent roughly 10 percent of all searches on Bing, we’re constantly looking for...
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Back in October we launched six Bing Apps for Windows 8 including News, Finance, Weather, Sports, Maps and Travel to help you explore your world with a set of immersive vertical experiences. The apps were designed from the ground up to embrace speed and touch providing you with a fast, fluid and consistent way to delve into your interests and get things done.
Starting today we are rolling out a significant set of updates across the apps that...
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People, places and things all have attributes that are keys to understanding what you’re looking for. Just like a bridge is long, a painting is impressionist, and a mountain is tall, people have certain characteristics, some of which are easy to catalogue, like height or profession, and others are more challenging, like Influence. That’s why we announced a relationship last September with Klout, to help us add this important attribute...
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