Take the Bing It On Challenge!

Since we launched Bing we’ve been hard at work to deliver relevant, useful search results that help you go from searching to doing. Awhile ago, we began to notice an interesting trend in our internal testing – for the first time our testing showed that Bing’s web search results were better than Google’s. We continued testing our results in several different ways as part of our regular work to improve our quality, and along...
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Search and Browse your Facebook Friends' Photos on Bing

Looking for that epic shot from last winter’s ski trip?  Or the I-could-die-laughing photo of your roommate’s cat dancing? With more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day, photo viewing is one of the most popular things people do on Facebook. Bing now lets you quickly find that special photo (out of your friends’ thousands) on Facebook with the new Friends’ Photo feature. Now, with Bing, you can easily search and browse your friends...
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Bing Adds Quora Experts to Social Sidebar

Search is amazing at amassing and presenting the right information from across the web to help you find what you’re looking for, learn new things and get stuff done. At Bing we think there’s a ton of value in not only surfacing the right information, but also surfacing the right people to help in your search. In the spring, we introduced a social sidebar that allows you to tap into friends, experts and enthusiasts helping you connect with relevant...
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Introducing Bing on Windows 8

We’re excited today to announce the Bing app for Windows 8. We’ve completely reimagined search for the new experiences of Windows 8, and the RTM release of Windows 8 shows off just how far we’ve come. Searching with the Bing app is fast and fluid, whether you use a touch device to tap and swipe or type and click with a keyboard and mouse. Visual results and images take center stage letting you quickly find what you’re looking for, so you can...
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Bing Fund Welcomes Buddy Platform, Inc. and Pinion Tech, LLC.

We originally announced Bing Fund on July 12, 2012. It is an angel fund with an incubator program that gives startups access to Microsoft technology assets and expertise, and funding. The team has been hard at work seeking talented entrepreneurs who are innovating online to solve big problems and create new, breakthrough experiences. We’re off to a strong start with the enrollment of two amazing startups into the program. Buddy, based in Kirkland,...
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Tag Your Friends When Searching on Bing

Last month, we introduced the new Bing with a social sidebar that lets you ask friends for ideas and recommendations as you search.Now you can involve even more of your Facebook friends by typing their name and tagging them when sharing a search. This allows you to effortlessly tap into the collective wisdom of your social network, and get input from your friends who are in the know. Have a friend who’s a travel guru and can help...
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Foursquare Arrives on Bing

  This spring, we launched the latest Bing design that brings friends, experts and enthusiasts into the search experience through a dedicated “sidebar”. We committed to working with industry partners to make the social experience in Bing compelling and useful for our customers. Today we are excited to share that we are delivering the first new Bing sidebar integration since we turned on the new Bing experience in June. Starting...
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Bing Twitter Sweeps: @fareologist’s Wanderlusting Your Way to Warped Tour

  Music gurus and travel explorers, unite! The Vans Warped Tour is making its final stop in Portland, Oregon on August 5th and we’ll be giving away an exclusive trip to one lucky Twitter follower and a guest to embark on a journey to the epic show. On July 16-18th, we will ask our followers to retweet specific tweets from the @fareologist handle to be entered into the sweepstakes (one entry per handle). We will randomly select one...
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Bing Seeks to Drive Innovation with Bing Fund

At Microsoft, we have tremendous respect for the talent, ingenuity, and passion of entrepreneurs. Where other people see merely interesting ideas, entrepreneurs see possibilities for making the world work better. Many talented people come up with game-changing ideas, but it takes an entrepreneurial spirit to stare down the words “it can’t be done” and make innovation real. Bing Fund is an angel fund with an incubator program...
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Bing Search Quality Insights: Friends and Experts

  The foundation of web search has been built on keywords, links and clicks pointing to pages. This approach is great for finding web sites but search is more than about simply finding pages. With the help of social networks, people are able to share nearly everything they do in digital form and offer their opinions on almost every conceivable topic. From real-time streams to social conversations, connections are created that present the...
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