We are really excited about the news from Hitwise, search experts offering intelligence for online advertising and search marketers, which shows the gap between Google and Bing in the UK is slowly beginning to close. We still have a long way to go, but since Bing is the only search engine to increase its volume of searches from UK Internet users over the course of the last 12 months, we believe we’re offering a different kind of search...
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Aggregate your social networks and favourite web content into one convenient place using the new Bing Bar
Building on Bing’s mission to help people make better decisions, the new Bing Bar keeps you connected to your social networks, provides rapid access to the top tasks you do online, and has a rich visual design to help simplify decision-making.
Taking into consideration 60 per cent of us have more than one personal email account, and...
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This week Dave Coplin, Bing’s Director of Search, joined The Guardian’s Charles Arthur and Aleks Krotoski on the acclaimed Tech Weekly podcast to thrash out the latest news and issues in the world of tech.
In the latest episode the panel explores the origins, impact and future of search engines which Aleks describes as “the killer app of the web”. Dave and Aleks discuss the importance of understanding human...
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Will it be True Grit or The King’s Speech for Best Picture? Will James Franco snatch the Best Actor gong from under the nose of our very own Colin Firth? While speculation grows around this weekend’s 83rd Academy Awards here at Bing we’ve created a Visual Search gallery to help you keep an eye on all the nominees.
Within our Academy Awards gallery you can check out all the nominees for this year’s award ceremony...
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Yesterday Dave Coplin opened the real time search session at the Search Engine Strategies conference at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London.
Dave kicked off the aptly named “I want it now” session by asking the audience to step away from the idea of search as a revenue stream and focus on the consumer experience. Search engines acts as our window into the internet and it’s this relationship that makes the...
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You may remember us mentioning on the blog about ‘art critic’ Brian Badonde’s new series. Over the last four webisodes we’ve seen Brian discover the world of science and the Internet – all through his own unique interview style.
Don’t fret if you’ve missed out on any of the episodes so far, as they can all be viewed at www.theartoftechnology.co.uk.
Today sees the release of the fifth episode in the series...
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