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Search Blog — Jun 2011

  • Jun
    07
    20 11

    Decision Point: Bing Tests IPv6 Beginning...

    As we announced in February, Bing and other major web sites are joining together to participate in World IPv6 Day, this Wednesday, June 8 2011. IPv6 connectivity will be operational beginning this evening at 5:00 p.m. PT and end tomorrow, June 8, at the same time. During this time, we will enable world-wide IPv6 connectivity to www.bing.com . Consumers with IPv6 Internet capabilities will automatically access Bing via IPv6. This necessitates both a device that supports IPv6 (like a Windows 7 PC), and support from your Internet provider. IPv4 traffic will continue to connect to Bing without any change. In fact, most Bing users won’t even notice that this transition is occurring. A small fraction of users (<1%) may have difficulty accessing Bing and other sites participating in World IPv6 Day during the test flight. You can find help on Microsoft’s IPv6 site . Some users may experience unexpected differences in Bing on IPv6 day. Feedback can be sent to bing6day@microsoft.com . Once the test is over, we’ll analyze the data so the results can inform Bing’s overall Ipv6 readiness. For more detail, you can Bing it: http://www.bing.com/search... Read More As we announced in February, Bing and other major web sites are joining together to participate in World IPv6 Day, this Wednesday, June 8 2011. IPv6 connectivity will be operational beginning this evening at 5:00 p.m. PT and end tomorrow, June 8, at the same time. During this time, we will enable world-wide IPv6 connectivity to www.bing.com . Consumers with IPv6 Internet capabilities will automatically access Bing via IPv6. This necessitates both a device that supports IPv6 (like a Windows 7 PC), and support from your Internet provider. IPv4 traffic will continue to connect to Bing without... Read More
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  • Jun
    07
    20 11

    SMX Advanced 2011 in Seattle Kicks Off...

    SMX Advanced search conference kicks off in Seattle today and we’re proud to be a part of the event. The Bing crew will be out in force speaking across a range of topics from social search, SEO tools and the latest in local and mobile. On Wednesday, Bing’s own Stefan Weitz, will discuss the significance of socializing the web and, by proxy, search, potential implications to user behavior, and share practical tips to consider for the burgeoning area of social search. The talk and demo will be followed by a fire side chat and Q&A with Danny Sullivan. You can also find us engaging searchers across SMX in a number of places. Here’s a quick summary of where you can find us. Day 1 – June 7 th 9:00AM The New Periodic Table Of SEO [Duane Forrester – Bing] 9:00AM Quality Score: The Unwritten Manual For Google AdWords & Bing adCenter [Ping Jen, Microsoft Advertising] 1:45PM The Really Complicated Technical SEO Infrastructure Issues [Steve Macbeth – Bing] 3:30PM How the Search Alliance is Paying Off For Search Marketers [Teresa Elliott- Microsoft Advertising] Day 2 – June 8 th 9:00AM Keynote: Confluence of... Read More SMX Advanced search conference kicks off in Seattle today and we’re proud to be a part of the event. The Bing crew will be out in force speaking across a range of topics from social search, SEO tools and the latest in local and mobile. On Wednesday, Bing’s own Stefan Weitz, will discuss the significance of socializing the web and, by proxy, search, potential implications to user behavior, and share practical tips to consider for the burgeoning area of social search. The talk and demo will be followed by a fire side chat and Q&A with Danny Sullivan. You can also find us... Read More
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  • Jun
    06
    20 11

    Bing on Xbox: You are The Controller

    The future living room does more than give you great entertainment; it helps you find what you’re looking for and helps you decide what to enjoy. It gives you simplicity, discovery and personal choice. Today at E3, we are excited to preview a new way for people to find movies, games, music and other entertainment: voice search with Bing on Xbox. Today’s announcement opens up your living room entertainment in the same way search engines opened up the Web by indexing it and making it discoverable. When you think about the state of your entertainment media, the challenge of finding what you want is similar. You have games, movies, music, TV shows and other content on your console, through services like Netflix, Hulu, and Zune, and programming and on-demand options available through cable and satellite providers. Xbox alone is growing from hundreds of thousands of pieces of content to millions. By combining all this content with the power of Bing’s deep search expertise, Microsoft Tellme’s voice technology and the magic of Kinect, we’ll be able to provide instant access to the expansive catalogue of entertainment options on Xbox Live. You say it, Xbox finds... Read More The future living room does more than give you great entertainment; it helps you find what you’re looking for and helps you decide what to enjoy. It gives you simplicity, discovery and personal choice. Today at E3, we are excited to preview a new way for people to find movies, games, music and other entertainment: voice search with Bing on Xbox. Today’s announcement opens up your living room entertainment in the same way search engines opened up the Web by indexing it and making it discoverable. When you think about the state of your entertainment media, the challenge of finding... Read More
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  • Jun
    02
    20 11

    Introducing Schema.org: Bing, Google and...

    We’ve been talking for a while about the need to rethink the search experience to better reflect both the changing web and advancing user habits. One of the biggest challenges and opportunities we see is to literally create a high-definition proxy of the physical world inside of Bing. In other words, we want to be able to model the world in which we all live to the level that search can actually help you make decisions and get things done in real life by understanding all the options the world presents. We’ve made great progress on the technical front to begin to model the real world from the messy bits of data scattered across the web. Things like movies have benefitted from this work. We’re now able to understand “Casablanca” is a movie and literally mine the web to re-assemble information about that movie from millions of sites. But we think we can do better. We want to enable publishers to give us hints about what things they are describing on their sites. Rather than rely solely on machine learning and other AI techniques, we asked “what if we could enable publishers to have a single schema they could use to describe their sites that... Read More We’ve been talking for a while about the need to rethink the search experience to better reflect both the changing web and advancing user habits. One of the biggest challenges and opportunities we see is to literally create a high-definition proxy of the physical world inside of Bing. In other words, we want to be able to model the world in which we all live to the level that search can actually help you make decisions and get things done in real life by understanding all the options the world presents. We’ve made great progress on the technical front to begin to model the real... Read More
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  • Jun
    01
    20 11

    @Bing “Friends Don’t Let Friends Decide...

    Recently, we launched a fresh batch of exciting new social features . Now you can receive personalized search results based on the opinions of your friends on Facebook. To celebrate the launch, we’re giving five lucky @bing followers $100 towards a night out with friends! Today (June 1 st ), we’re going to tweet a question from the @bing Twitter handle asking what decisions you make with your friends. All you have to do to be eligible to win is reply to the question and include the #decisions hashtag. Of the people who reply with an answer along with the #decisions hashtag, we’ll randomly select 5 lucky winners during the following time period: Noon – Midnight ET (9am – 9pm PT) on June 1st. Good luck and let the tweeting begin! Be sure to Retweet and tell all your friends so you can guilt them into spending that $100 with you if they win ;) To get a full run down of how the sweepstakes will work, read the official rules here . -The Bing Team Read More Recently, we launched a fresh batch of exciting new social features . Now you can receive personalized search results based on the opinions of your friends on Facebook. To celebrate the launch, we’re giving five lucky @bing followers $100 towards a night out with friends! Today (June 1 st ), we’re going to tweet a question from the @bing Twitter handle asking what decisions you make with your friends. All you have to do to be eligible to win is reply to the question and include the #decisions hashtag. Of the people who reply with an answer along with the #decisions hashtag... Read More
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