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November, 2009

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  • Online holiday shopping for the Cyber Monday bargain hunter by Mary Hunt

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    I guess you might say I know a thing or two about bargain shopping. I’m good at it. So good, I bargain-shopped myself into a horrible mess—with a life-ruining load of credit-card debt to prove it! The experience of paying back every dime taught...
  • Top Bing Searches in 2009

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    Cue Music. Awwww, 2009. It was a year of UFO shaped dirigibles , mom jeans on pop stars, real housewives, a new president, and a new decision engine . Oh and there may have been something about Vampires too, we weren’t really paying attention. Yes...
  • Bing says G’day Mate from Sydney Australia!

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    Some folks take coals to Newcastle – I take beer bottle openers to Australia . Though I’m officially on vacation, we Bing folks never really rest, especially when there’s an opportunity to spread Bing love via beer. Constant vigilance...
  • Are you seeing gold yet?!

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    Are you sitting down? Do you have your coffee in hand? Well! Let the holiday shopping begin! Go to www.bing.com/cashback to start your holiday shopping off right. Below is a list of the participating merchants in this year’s Bing cashback Holiday...
  • The 12th Man really came to play last week!

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    Wow! We had an amazing response for last week’s #FTF Seahawks practice jersey giveaway. Thank you to everyone who took the time to play. We had some pretty imaginative search results sent to us so picking out the winners was very hard! We wanted...
  • Bing – Making someone’s travel day that much easier

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    If you happen to have been at an airport today (which is more than likely) and if you were flying in or out of Seattle or Boston you might have seen some of our fellow Bing team members out there giving people a hand with their luggage….and when...
  • A little holiday spending money…a little trivia…

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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...
  • Bing™ for mobile availability continues to grow

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    Mobile momentum continues and this is a big one: the new Bing application is now available for BlackBerry™ Curve devices in the US. When you buy a new BlackBerry Curve 2 (8530) from Verizon, you’ll get the Bing app automatically. If you have...
  • Committed to Comprehensive Results

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    There’s been some buzz today based on a post by Nicholas D. Kristof at the New York Times suggesting that Bing filters results for searches conducted outside of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) using Simplified Chinese characters for their...
  • Mark your calendars…A Gold Rush is coming

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    I have never been one to wake up the morning after Thanksgiving to go and wait in a line at the mall for those crazy holiday shopping deals. As much as I have thought about it, the idea of sitting outside at 2AM in the freezing cold still trying to wake...
  • Friday’s Without Stefan and Free NFL Practice Jersey Friday

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    I am sitting here in the office wondering why the hallways are so quiet and it dawns on me….Stefan is not here. Which means two things, I can work without listening to him rock out to early 90’s greatest hits and that he is not here for me...
  • Get Inside Bing’s Head: See the Features You’ve Only Heard About

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    Great news. All the new features we blogged about last week are live for 100% of our users. Many of you may have seen them over the past few days as the ramp progressed, but now everyone can take full advantage of the great work the team has done in this...
  • Making a List and Checking it Twice

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    With just 38 days left until Christmas, I’m sure I’m one of many who is frantically making shopping lists, planning trips to the mall, and researching the hottest toys and deals for the season. Luckily Bing cashback continues to welcome new...
  • Free T-Shirt Friday and Stefan…Again

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    The sun is out in the PNW and you know what that means? No? Ok, I don’t either. But is it Friday, which means it is time for another Friday’s With Stefan and Free T-Shirt Friday. Find the best related query to this week's theme and send it...
  • MSN and Bing Getting Up Close and Personal with New Moon and Twilight

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    Holy Twilight-mania! I attempted to look for information on Twilight and there are, well, hundreds if not thousands of Twilight sites out there, I found myself buried in a torrent of Twilight hysteria. I mean, I have heard about this phe-nom but did not...
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