At Bing, we believe that for every search there is somebody out there who can help. That’s why we have been teaming up with Twitter for a few years to surface public tweets from people who may have something to contribute to what you’re trying to get done with Bing.
Whether it’s a politician, celebrity, thought leader or friend, our renewed partnership with Twitter ensures that you have near real-time access to what people are...
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Bing Search Blog - Posts tagged with 'twitter'
Each year, The Sundance Film Festival draws thousands of film buffs to Park City, Utah and serves as the premier showcase for independent films.
For the third year, Bing is the official search engine for Sundance and the Bing team will be traveling to Sundance to set up the Bing Bar, last year’s hottest destination at Sundance. The Bing Bar will host a star-studded line-up of diverse events, offering an inside look at the films, people, and...
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Congratulations to the winners of the Angry Birds Sweepstakes! On April 6th, we offered @bing followers a chance to win an Angry Birds plush toy. To enter, they needed to tweet an answer to any of the four trivia questions related to our Angry Birds video series. In the videos, the evil green pigs use Bing for Mobile to help them plot to steal the eggs, while the Angry Birds use the features to trick the pigs and get their eggs back. The trivia...
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Last month, we finally got our hands on the elegant, intuitive Windows Phone 7. The experience spans the common things we all need to get done every day. Not surprisingly, what excites us most is what the team has done with Bing on Windows Phone 7.
Now we want to hear from you!
Tweet what you love about Bing to @Bing to enter to win a Windows Phone 7, Samsung Focus available on the ATT Network.
Just include...
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As the internet continues to evolve, we find there are more new “signals” coming in to search that enable us to provide customers with more relevant, real time and connected results. Our work with Twitter and Facebook over the last year or so has helped us create what is in effect a “social layer” for search that brings social information into the search experience in real time. This is an important investment for us at...
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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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One of the most interesting things going on today on the Internet is the notion of the real time web. The idea of accessing data in real time has been an elusive goal in the world of search. Web indexes in search engines update at pretty amazing rates, given what it takes to crawl the entire web and index it for searching, but getting that to “real time” has been challenging.
The explosive popularity of Twitter is the best example of...
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Betsy mugs with ijustine (Justine Ezarik) first day of the 140 twitter conference.
Perez Hilton, eat your heart out. The Twitterati Glitterati are out and in force (and they should never really have let me in)!
My first big conference after Techcrunch50 was 140 Twitter Conference. Because it was in Los Angeles, it had a totally different flavor that perhaps only Stefan has experienced previously, during the Bing-a-thon. (Bing-a-thon star Olivia...
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We are nearly halfway through summer, and soon parents and students will start thinking about the all-important task of back-to-school shopping. We know many of you will be working hard to stretch your dollars this year so you can still get everything you or your family needs — and a few things you just really want. Bing is here to help! Knowing you’d probably rather not spend your waning summer days digging for deals inside the mall...
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As part of our ongoing efforts to explore options in real-time search, we’ve partnered with Federated Media and Twitter to create BingTweets which fuses Bing search results and real time content from Twitter in an interesting new interface. How does partnering with Twitter make Bing a more effective decision engine? Many people share their thoughts on Twitter, and search engines don’t currently do a great job of capturing that real...
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