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With the latest version of Messenger, you can now bring Bing into your conversations in a few exciting new ways. The first way you will be able to do this is through contextual linking. When a term is recognized, a green dashed line appears under that term. When you click on that word, you are given links from Bing to websites, photos, and videos which you can add to your conversation. Some of the categories of content that Messenger and Bing recognize include: · Brands · Bands and Singers · Places · Famous Movies · Famous people The other way is to use the information from Bing as a search and share experience. You are able to add content that is indexed and...
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Last month, we had the pleasure of announcing that, in conjunction with Apple, Bing would be included as one of the search engine choices within Safari . Today, we’d like to introduce our first extension for Safari: Bing Highlights . Bing Highlights brings intelligent, contextually sensitive information to the web pages you’re reading. Using it is easy: just highlight text on a web page. Bing Highlights will recognize interesting information (or “entities” in information science-speak) and offer you some smart choices. For example, here’s what may happen if you highlight a U.S. formatted address: You can interact with the map in the pane, and get driving directions...
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What do pool sharks, fancy flowers, sassy hair do’s and spooky fish all have in common? They’re all part of a stellar line up of new casual games that can be found on Bing – available right in the Bing entertainment browser! Earlier this summer Yusuf mentioned casual games were part of our new entertainment experience on Bing and these new games are just one more way we are continuing to expand and deepen your online gaming experience. The search for free games is on with the addition of some of our favorites including Belle's Beauty Boutique , Carniball , Fishdom Spooky Splash , Jigsaw , 8 Ball Champion , Pyramid Solitaire and Gardenscapes . We love gaming with our friends...
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Comparison shopping has been around for ages and all of us do it. Whether checking different stores to compare prices or reading reviews on various products, there’s just something about getting the best deal on the best product that validates the entire shopping experience (or maybe that’s just me). As more and more activities become mobile, comparison shopping is as well. In fact, research shows that 56% of iPhone users compare prices when shopping on their phone. With the recent update to the Bing iPhone app we’re excited to make comparison shopping with your phone even easier with the new camera scanning feature on the Bing for iPhone app. Haven’t tried it yet? Let’s...
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This week, Microsoft took the wraps off Windows Phone 7, as reviewers have begun publishing in-depth reviews of the new experience from Windows Phone (congratulations to our colleagues over in Windows Phone Team ). Like lots of others at Microsoft, we’re device geeks who couldn’t wait to get our hands on what is shaping up to be an elegant, intuitive experience spanning lots of the common things we all need to get done each day. Not surprisingly, what excites us the most is what the team has done with Bing on the Windows Phone 7. There have been some very positive reviews of the experience as a whole and it’s great to see how the team’s work integrating a native Bing experience...
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One question that users often ask is how they can find past homepage images. Sure those arrows let you revisit the last 7 days’ worth of homepages, but what about last month? Well, you asked and we answered. Today we’re really excited to announce our Bing homepage Visual Search gallery ! Now you can go back through previous homepage images to see what you’ve missed or revisit old favorites. And you can sort by a variety of categories, including all the homepages featuring countries in Europe, or every homepage image from space. Click on the image you like, and you’ll be taken to a details page where you can learn more about the subject in the photo and see related images...
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One of the most significant things our search and advertising platform teams have been working on over the past several months is the preparation and engineering for our search alliance with Yahoo! When we announced our intention to enter into a search and advertising relationship with Yahoo! almost a year ago, we began a journey that will help us build a scale search advertising marketplace and provide a real competitive alternative for consumers, publishers and advertisers. Beginning just a few days ago, we began some important testing across both our systems designed to verify our joint work and make sure we are ready to deliver a quality transition for customers, which we are on track to...
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Today the Microsoft Research team will be at SIGIR 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland discussing new updates to the Web N-gram service and participating in a number of other workshops as well as a Keynote. Where you can Find Microsoft at SIGIR: Keynote: Refactoring the Search Problem to Exploit Difference Between Clients and Servers Dr. Gary Flake, Microsoft, Director of Live Labs Workshops: · Crowd Sourcing for Search Evaluation · Understanding, Supporting, and Evaluating Personal Data Search · Query Representation and Understanding · Web N-gram The Microsoft Web N-gram service has been in beta since April and researchers, worldwide, have been developing amazing applications...
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You may have noticed that Bing’s Tuesday homepage was a tribute to a celebration in Japan. We were celebrating as Bing Japan removed its beta tag, launched a new product feature and became a contender in the Japanese search market. There were many new features to show the crowd but to showcase our focus on entertainment ; we hit the city with Yoshimoto Entertainment Company, one of the most prominent celebrity agents in Japan. The fans lined up to attend the launch event and were able to laugh the day away! Yoshimoto’s comedians gave live, impromptu impressions of Bing while highlighting some of their favorite Bing features. The group had a great response to the new homepage, shopping...
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Every day students use Bing to learn and explore, so we have a vested interest in seeing them succeed. Whether that is through providing new tools for teachers and students, sponsoring programs like 10,000 Rockets or through our various partnerships. Recently we have had the opportunity to partner with DonorsChoose.org to help bring funding to classroom projects across the US with programs like the Teacher Appreciation program that just ended as well as with this year’s Earth Day Photo Contest . Today we are excited to be partnering with DonorsChoose.org again and continue our support by giving you a $3 donation code to fund a classroom project of your choice when you choose Bing as your...
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We are sure by now you have heard, seen or read that NBA player LeBron James will be making a decision as to which NBA team he will choose to play for next season. LeBron will be making his decision on a special program, “The Decision,” which airs live this Thursday, July 8, at 9 pm ET on ESPN. We are excited to be a part of LeBron’s important day and to be the official decision engine of the site LebronJames.com and one of the presenting sponsors of “The Decision” program. Microsoft has a long-standing relationship with LeBron, including the launch of a website in 2007 – LeBron.msn.com, which was an inspirational, storybook-style Web site for kids and teens...
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Coming off the heels of the launch of the new Bing Entertainment feature, we're excited to kick off a music-themed summer with an East and West coast concert series, chances to win tickets to private shows and a Lady Gaga fan search contest! First let's talk Gaga. In honor of the 40th Anniversary of America's Top 40', we're teaming up with Stubhub and Ryan Seacrest to launch the Lady Gaga Superfan Search. To enter, upload your best Lady Gaga Superfan photo showing your most fierce Lady Gaga fashion. The winner will receive the ultimate Lady Gaga prize package – round-trip travel and tickets to one of her shows either in Miami, New York, Las Vegas, or Lollapallooza in Chicago. Go to Bing...
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It’s t-minus 2 days until the Holiday and I’m sure many of you are planning to attend a BBQ or host your own. Whether you’re the host or the guest, your “to-do” list is probably continuing to grow. Good news! There are many ways that Bing can help you plan for this year’s holiday festivities. First, will you be inside or out? Check out the weather forecast for your area just by typing the word “weather” into the search box. That’s right, no city name or zip code required, just “weather” and you’ll see an inline instant answer of the local forecast to help you prepare and plan the right attire. Next, what to make? You can...
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As we mentioned last week you are now able to discover, experience and buy music right within Bing Entertainment . You can find the latest songs as well as sample the songs right there inline with the Zune Player. We have even taken it a step further letting you purchase those songs right from the results page through Amazon.com, iTunes or Zune. Zune is also now allowing you to buy these songs with cash in addition to points. Have you noticed the link that takes you directly to the lyrics of the songs? More than 70 percent of people look for music lyrics online; I know I can recall a time or two where this would have come in handy in the past. Now if you are a huge fan and want to listen to the...
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Search data indicates that people expect search engines to stay up-to-date on news: 60% of our customers use a search engine to get the details about a news story and 40% say their search engine is their “most important” resource for this key task. You come to us for world , US , entertainment and local news and you’ve given us feedback that we hadn’t met all of your needs and expectations. We’ve listened and have launched features that address some of your most critical pain points. Improving relevance and the freshness of content was at the top of our “to do” list. I’d love to demonstrate the improvements via a link, but it would be out of date...
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