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The official blog of the Bing team at Microsoft

October, 2010

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  • Restoring sanity, one classroom at a time

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    I was in New York last week and decided I’d stop by the Donors Choose offices. I love Donors Choose because when people use their service, they become hooked on supporting education. They see what a little money can do to help our teachers, our...
  • Play “Decode Jay-Z with Bing” and win

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    It’s been 10 days since we launched “Decode Jay-Z with Bing.” In that time, you have discovered over 105 pages of Jay-Z’s upcoming book Decoded . As you know, Jay-Z has placed the pages of his new book, Decoded , out in the world...
  • Getting places faster with Bing Local

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    Lately there’s been a lot of discussion about how to find what you’re looking for locally. It’s a very large percentage of queries, but providing great results for these searches is a bit different from more general queries. The initial...
  • More exciting news from Bing and Yahoo!

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    Today we marked a very important milestone in our search alliance with Yahoo!. As David Pann outlined in his post , as of today, Microsoft’s adCenter advertising platform is now powering all the paid search listings for searchers on both Bing and...
  • Bing and Microsoft Tag make downloading the perfect app a snap

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    With over 300,000 iPhone apps on the market today it can be daunting to wade through the sea of options to find that perfect app. If you’re searching on your device, the screen size and speed can make it even harder. Enter the top iphone app gallery...
  • Bing sponsors Internet Librarian 2010

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    Bing is sponsoring the 14 th Annual Internet Librarian 2010 conference in Monterey, California, from October 25-27. Join us as we demo key Bing features we use as Microsoft research librarians. We’ll also discuss information search trends over time...
  • REDU’s RE:FORM SCHOOL Follow Up

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    To those of you who attended- RE:FORM SCHOOL in NYC , a REDU call to action event to rethink our US education through visual arts and creative workshops- thank you for the support! The numbers below testify to the energy and enthusiasm that everybody...
  • Bing: Your ticket to football

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    Throughout the football season, we’ve been talking about how to use Bing for your game-day decisions. Dogs vs. brats, cab vs. drive, Peyton Manning vs Tom Brady or hoodie vs. body paint – all of which are key decisions to be made during the...
  • Bing at the Summit with Eric Larsen

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    If you have been following along with Eric Larsen’s Save the Poles expedition you would know that he was on his way up to the summit of Mt. Everest to complete his third and final leg. Well late last week Eric made it to the Summit. Eric has now...
  • Decide, decode and win: Explore the life and times of Jay-Z with Bing

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    Ever listen to your favorite song and wonder what inspired the artist to write it? Curious if there’s hidden meaning behind the lyrics? Starting tomorrow, you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in a multi-platform search experience to...
  • Free “Katy Perry Revenge by Bing” app available today

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    Over the past year, we’ve been working with a number of companies to sponsor mobile apps . As we continue to roll out advancements to Bing for mobile across several mobile platforms, we’re pleased to announce an exciting new offer from Tapulous...
  • New Signals in Search: The Bing Social Layer

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    The technology search engines employ to retrieve that needle in the information haystack is staggering and humbling; it's one of the things that get us fired up to come to work at Bing every day. Today we announced an exciting expansion to our long-term...
  • Bing Gets More Social with Facebook

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    Please note that information contained within this post has been updated. For the latest information regarding Bing social search features please see the following update. - Bing Team, 11/2/2010 As you read in Satya’s post , today we announced a...
  • Best of Bing 4 is here!

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    Our latest Bing’s Best Windows 7 theme pack puts you in the middle of a storm on the plains, takes you ice fishing with a Kingfisher, and offers a seal’s eye view of a kelp forest. There are 18 wallpapers in all… here’s a sneak...
  • Wishing Dr. Richard Bing a Happy 101st Birthday

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    Can you believe it has already been one year since we were all introduced to Dr. Richard Bing ? Recently I re-watched Para Fuera – A Portrait of the Life of Dr. Richard Bing which was an official selection at the 2010 Sundance Film festival and...
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