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The official blog of the Bing team at Microsoft

December, 2009

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  • Thank You and Happy New Year!

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    What a year 2009 was for the team here at Bing. Launching Bing has been exciting and we are thankful to those of you that turn to the Bing Blog for all the latest information on all things Bing. We are looking forward to continuing our passion for search...
  • Bing…life should be easier

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    Holiday season is in full swing. And what a great time of year it is - the snow is flying, people are heading out on vacation to spend time with family and friends, and everyone’s got some last minute things to do. At Bing, our goal is to make your...
  • …and the rest of the 2009 Most Searched goes to…

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    Earlier this month we announced the top trending searched topics on Bing for 2009 (we wish the circumstances for Michael Jackson topping that list were a bit more positive) and we also revealed the top searched celebrity of 09 (Oh…. Perez Hilton...
  • Home Sweet Home Page Winning Photo

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    We are happy to announce that after tallying the last of your votes the winning photo for our Home Sweet Home Page Photo contest has been selected. The winning photo of the majestic Seattle Skyline taken by Justin Kraemer took the lead early in the final...
  • Bing iPhone app – upcoming fixes

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    The response so far to the Bing app for iPhone has been incredible; we are excited by the strong customer response and download traffic! However, we’ve also heard about a couple of issues that we’d like to address: 1. Using voice search outside...
  • Last-minute gift ideas and great deals

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    My sister is one of those smug shoppers that purchased her final Christmas gift back in August, but perhaps you’re normal like me and you still need a couple last-minute gifts. Maybe you’ve come up blank and have no idea what to get your mother...
  • Bing for mobile comes to the iPhone

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    Bing on your mobile phone just keeps getting better. Today we are happy to announce the first official Bing App for iPhone and iPod touch. You can now download the free Bing App from your phone in the App Store, from your computer at iTunes, or go to...
  • Bing search history: The power is yours

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    My name is Sree, and I joined the Bing team just over a year ago after graduating from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Since then, my work has been focused on Bing’s history features, and it has been a wild ride. I remember when my manager...
  • A note about today’s outage

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    Bing.com was down between about 6:30 and 7:00 PM Pacific Time on Dec 3, 2009. During this time, users were either unable to get to the site, or their queries were returning incomplete results page. The cause of the outage was a configuration change during...
  • Ellen is going Bing for the holidays

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    What better way to get in the holiday spirit then some fun giveaways and shopping! If you have seen Ellen Degeneres’s annual 12 days of Giveaways that is starting today you know that it is sure to bring you holiday cheer and great ideas for holiday...
  • Bing: Connecting People, Places and Things

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    Come check out the new Bing features released today!

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  • Space, the final frontier

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    Lately I have been hearing a ton about outer space, space travel, life in space, space hotels…I think I could go on and on. Anyway s , Bing and Microsoft have been doing some interesting partnership in the science /outer space sector. The first...
  • “Home Sweet Homepage”

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    Due to the great response to our first homepage photo contest, we are super excited to launch Bing’s Home Sweet Homepage photo contest! Our first photo contest had more than 10,000 entries and upwards of half a million votes. The winning photo came...
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