With Labor Day weekend fast approaching, perhaps you’re thinking about a quick trip to Vegas. Airfares aren’t too expensive, but the cost of a hotel room may give you second thoughts, especially since the best properties tend to get up booked...

By now you have probably seen the exciting news about our agreement with Yahoo!. We are totally fired up to be partnering with such a great set of folks, and look forward to seeing what we can achieve for customers by working together to bring a strong...

Through our Powerset division , Bing has access to semantically indexed Wikipedia content to help with “reference” searches when people are looking for information about a given entity (person, place or thing) such as Albert Einstein or TechCrunch...

One part of Bing shopping that customers find very useful are all of the product reviews we’ve gathered. There are over 3 million reviews from all over the web from people just like you that we combine and provide in one place. We hope this makes...

We are through the first week of the Bing Jingle contest, and it’s time to show off the entries that have been submitted so far. We’ve seen ballads, clever use of the Bingtones, a poem, and some songs that baffled us a bit and we’ve...

One of the coolest things we've seen since the Bing launch is the response to Bing Travel. Customers continue to explore the site and use all the tools we've built to help make better travel decisions quickly, and get on with their trips. We’d like...

Somehow the Bing team ended up spread practically equidistant across the country tonight, so we thought we should warn all of you. First, here at home, Bing is sponsoring an epic Ping Pong tourney at the sold-out Tech Flash event where VCs, startups,...

We are in the final round of voting for the Bing Home Page Photo Contest ! Thousands of amazing photos have been submitted and voted for, which has made it very difficult to limit ourselves to only 8 finalists. During the selection process we looked for...

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...

Bing is headed to Chicago to attend Blogher ‘09 . We are really looking forward to spending time with a dynamic group of more than 1,400 women bloggers from across the country and from every corner of the blogosphere. With all the walking and talking...

Fans of Bing find it easy to say and often speak the name like a sound effect, especially when you find what you’re looking for online. Bing! Since everyone is having fun with the name, we thought it would be interesting to see what you can do with...

Part of what makes working at Microsoft fun is the abundance of “smartypants” people that I get to work with. The downside is that Bing gets a workout as I casually use my PC to look up words as I talk to them. This week at SIGIR (Special...

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...

After just over one month in market, we wanted to take the opportunity to THANK YOU for all your feedback and support of Bing and provide an update on our early results. We’ve been really pleased to hear so much positive feedback, and we appreciate...

In February our friends from the Windows Live team announced plans to pilot a new feature unique to Hotmail called quick add. Today, we’re happy to announce that Bing – Microsoft’s new decision engine – will power Windows Live...