Stopping Bullying with Bing

  We’ve shared some amazing examples of people doing incredible things and today, we want to shine a light on an important issue that has likely touched you, or your loved ones. Bullying affects millions of kids every day – with over 13 million kids in the US being bullied this year, and over 3 million students missing school each month because they feel unsafe at school. To help combat bullying, The Weinstein Company is...
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@Bing “Win a Trip to See Adam Lambert at the Bing Lounge” Sweepstakes

  Attention, music fans! Singing sensation and American Idol alumni Adam Lambert, will be giving a live performance at the Bing Lounge in Portland, Oregon on March 25th. To share the love, we’ll be giving exclusive meet and greet access to one lucky Twitter follower and  guest at the show. We hope that’s music to your ears. Today we ask that you retweet specific tweets from the @Bing handle to be entered into the...
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Introducing Bing Search Quality Insights

Dr. Harry Shum, Corporate Vice President, Bing R&D I’ve been working in search at Microsoft for the last seven years and there has never been a more fascinating or challenging time to be in the search space. Today, search spans the entire spectrum of computer science from distributed systems and machine learning to natural language understanding and user experience design. The graph theory we learned in graduate school 20 years ago with...
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Bing Search Quality Insights: Whole Page Relevance

Dr. Jan Pedersen, Chief Scientist for Core Search at Bing If you compared the results you see with Bing today with those of our search product five years ago, at first glance they might seem similar – ten blue links presented with text summaries. However, if you look closer you would see some important differences. The first thing you would notice is that many of the queries you perform today produce excellent results that would have simply...
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Bing Apps now available with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Today the Windows Team announced the availability of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview at a Microsoft event in Barcelona. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview availability, along with the opening of the Windows Store, will make exciting new apps available to everyone. Bing is part of excitement with three new apps now available in the Windows Store so the excitement is buzzing for us over here on the Bing team as well. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview, ready...
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The Oscars: Finish the Phrase “#MoviesWereBestWhen” and Win A Year of Free Movies Nights

  The stage is set and the red carpet is primed to roll out for The 84th Annual Oscars telecast airing live this Sunday, Feb. 26 (7 pm ET/ 4 pm PT) on ABC. To get you in the spirit, @Bing will be taking a look back at the epic moments from the Academy Awards over the years and we want to hear from you. On Sunday, February 26th, we will tweet a question from the @Bing Twitter handle asking you to complete the statement ‘I think...
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Bing at The GRAMMYs: Finish the Phrase “#MusicWasBestWhen” to Win Concert Cash

We’re heading to the GRAMMYs. @Bing will be coming to you live from The 2012 GRAMMYs celebrating great music and capturing all the happenings at the show. Today, we will tweet a question from the @Bing Twitter handle asking you to complete the statement ‘I think #MusicWasBestWhen….’. To participate, mention @Bing within your answer and include the #MusicWasBestWhen hashtag. Throughout the day, we will be sharing great...
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Bing is for Doing: Theophilus London’s Story

Following his widely buzzed about performance at the Bing Bar at the Sundance Film Festival, Theophilus London and Bing are unveiling the next stage of their collaboration today. London, a songwriter, rapper, and designer has performed at several Bing- hosted events and we are currently sponsoring his upcoming album, a collection of remixes of Timez are Weird These Days tracks. In the next phase of the Bing is for Doing campaign, Bing will be...
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Our Favorite Features

  This week we have been encouraging people to take another look at Bing. To help folks who may not have used us in a while find some of our favorite features, we’ve pulled together a quick list of some cool things you can do on Bing that you won’t find other places.  

Lifelens to Bring Malaria Treatment to the Masses with Windows Phone and Bing Maps

On Friday, four teams from around the world were informed that they had won a $75,000 grant to propel their Imagine Cup ideas and prototypes to the next level. One of the winners was Lifelens a distributed team that developed an innovative and cost effective way to identify malaria in patients living in remote and underserved areas. Lifelens is a point-of-care tool to diagnose malaria using an augmented Windows Phone 7 application. A blood sample...
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