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January, 2010

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  • The Twist Show and Free T-shirt Friday

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    I never know really where Stefan will be on a daily basis, today he is in Los Angeles talking on this week’s TWIST show at 1:00PM PST with Jason Calacanis discussing Bing. For this week’s “Free T-Shirt Friday” theme make sure you...
  • Exploring Mars With Bing

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    I remember dreaming as a kid what other planets might be like, and I am sure my parents loved that I stuck all of those glow in the dark stars and planet stickers on the ceiling of my bedroom. I mean really, how many of those floating planet projects...
  • Simplifying Money Matters with Bing

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    There are times I get to the end of the day and I am wondering where my day went. I am usually thinking this while looking at my “to do” list with nothing checked off and I am asking myself “how can I make this easier?” Well, the...
  • Dr Bing: Giving Free Reign to Head and Heart

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    Tomorrow we’ll be at the Sundance Film Festival at the world premiere of Para Fuera, An Intimate Portrait of Dr. Richard Bing. As some of you may recall we talked about Dr. Bing last October on the occasion of his 100 th birthday . I still love...
  • Lights, Camera, Sundance

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    Snow, sunshine, a good film or two and good company…does that sound like a good time to you? Well it did to us, so we packed our bags (ok…Stefan and a few others packed their bags) and headed down to Park City, Utah to attend the Sundance...
  • FTF is back!

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    Where has the time gone? After a bit of a hiatus we are excited to get back to answering your forum questions and to giving away free Bing T-shirts. This week we sit down with Stefan (still in an apron) to discuss some of your questions from the forums...
  • Coming Together to Bring “Hope for Haiti Now”

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    We have all witnessed how a natural disaster can devastate a country and how paralyzing it has been to the beautiful people and country of Haiti. However, we have also witnessed the agility and compassion of aid workers from around the world, as well...
  • Cooking up a storm with Bing Recipes

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    After watching Julie and Julia I think everyone might have a little bit of Julia Child inside of them somewhere (even Stefan…who would’ve thought he had an apron with his name on it). So when you find yourself looking for that new recipe...
  • Bing Maps: Adding Apps, Dropping Beta!

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    Are we all back from the holidays yet? For some on the maps team, the holiday’s biggest gift was getting to work on updating the Bing Maps experience based on what you told us you wanted to see. Why are things in beta anyway? It’s so we can...
  • Bing Autosuggest – Keeping You Current

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    Over the past couple months the Bing team has been working hard to make your search journey a bit easier. One of the ways we have tried to do that is through improvements to autosuggest. Autosuggest helps you get to results faster by suggesting words...
  • Updates to Bing Privacy

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    Today we sent a letter to the Article 29 Working Party notifying them of our intention to make a change to Bing’s data retention policy. Specifically, we are reducing the amount of time we store IP addresses from searchers to 6 months. Currently...
  • Cars Cars Cars…Bing Bing Bing

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    As the automotive world (and our friends at MSN Autos ) descend on Detroit for the North American International Auto Show we here at Bing wanted to highlight our enhanced auto search results. Simply search for your favorite car make and model and voila...
  • Bringing Knowledge into Health Search

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    The new enhanced Bing Health search experience is live – focusing on further enabling people to quickly get relevant information and make better decisions. We’re providing more content from new partners and augmenting instant answers with...
  • Bing – Bringing Basketball to You

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    Are you all getting a bit sad that the end of football season is drawing closer and closer? What will you do on Sunday? Well fear not, the NBA season is fully underway and Bing has some ways for you to keep up on all the latest scores and stats. You can...
  • Bing is bringing it at CES

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    With CES well on its way, the talks, the meet ups, the late night festivities, and not to mention the ever crazed exhibit floor...we wanted to let you all know the Bing team is here in and we are in full CES mode. If we haven’t had the chance to...
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