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Sun, Mar 14 2010 11:19AM
Microsoft’s Chris Pendleton , the technical evangelist for Bing Maps, led a fascinating panel at South By Southwest on Sunday morning with map experts from Foursquare, Twitter, Navtec and Flickr talking about the future of mapping. The panelists...
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Thu, Mar 11 2010 02:22AM
Last night saw the first Bing TV advert go live in the UK. In November, Bing UK reached an important milestone: we removed the beta tag having added innovative features like Visual Search , Categorised Search and Twitter Integration . Our user base has...
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Wed, Mar 03 2010 01:56PM
The Bing Cashback program now has 1,200 active merchants, 44 million offers, and has distributed over $100 million in earned rewards for consumers. Meagan Rochelle, search solutions specialist for Cashback, offered those statistics to the audience at...
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Tue, Feb 23 2010 04:00PM
Like most sports it's infinitely more fun to form a team to play or work together to reach a common goal. That's why Bing is proud to be teaming up with Sport Relief to help raise money for vulnerable and disadvantaged people both in the UK and...
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Tue, Feb 16 2010 07:24AM
Given the recent progress made with the development of Bing in the UK, it's only fair that we spent some time taking the product for a spin and reminding folks about the opportunity we see in the Search space here at Search Engine Strategies London...
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Fri, Feb 12 2010 12:31PM
Sometimes my job is made really easy by other people. Today that person is Blaise Aguera y Arcas who is a Bing Maps Architect. I first met Blaise back in 2007, when he took me through some of the cooler stuff to demo on Photosynth and Seadragon . Back...
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Wed, Feb 10 2010 12:11PM
Tackling challenges is nothing new for Bing's mastermind Qi Lu. In an article published in the Economist , the Director of Microsoft's Online Services Division shared his perspective on the keys for success in the intricate search game: innovation...
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Sun, Feb 07 2010 09:39AM
With just over a week to go till Search Engine Strategies in London, our team have been putting their finishing touches to their presentations. Peter’s session on Bing on the 1st day is really one that’s not to be missed. From the conference...
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Fri, Feb 05 2010 09:18AM
The Bing Blog has the latest on Facebook and Microsoft . From their post: Facebook has been a close and valued partner of Microsoft for a number of years. We have worked together on several fronts all designed to create great experiences and services...
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Wed, Feb 03 2010 11:54AM
With the search engine marketing conference season well under way on both sides of the pond , I caught up with Danny Sullivan – editor in chief at Search Engine Land – to chat about his team's upcoming event in March in Santa Clara. What...
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Mon, Jan 25 2010 09:04AM
Having moved here to Washington state from northern Vermont where our house was a mere 8 miles from the closest ski resort and just one town over from Stowe (a.k.a “the Ski Capital of the East”), my husband has been itching to strap on his...
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Mon, Jan 25 2010 05:51AM
Always nice to come in on a Monday morning to see numbers like these. Friday saw a press release from comScore that shows December 2009 was a bumper month for the search industry, with consumers around the world conducting a phenomenal 131 billion searches...
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Wed, Jan 06 2010 10:50PM
So Day 1 is over here at CES in Las Vegas . Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, has just stepped off stage after his keynote in which he talked about the successes of 2009 – the Windows 7 launch, Zune HD and the unleashing of our new decision...
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Tue, Jan 05 2010 10:48AM
Happy New Year everyone! While we’re gearing up to bring you even more useful content from different corners of Microsoft Advertising in 2010, we thought it’d be interesting to showcase the Top 7 blog posts of 2009 for your delectation! Microsoft...
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Wed, Dec 02 2009 11:15AM
Bing is on a roll, with even more new features announced today in the U.S. With this update, you’ll find broader availability of the Bing for Mobile App, a Bing toolbar, and a beta version of Bing Maps, powered by Silverlight. As always, new Bing...
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Fri, Nov 20 2009 12:06PM
Several new and improved Bing features announced earlier this month are now 100% live in the U.S. , and include adCenter ads in their results pages – this is your opportunity to get your ads in front of your audience as they check out the latest...
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Mon, Nov 16 2009 07:07PM
Following John’s post on Window 7 Personalization you can now add the best of Bing to your desktop. Download from the Windows 7 Personalization Gallery for free, install and then customise your background to change every few minutes to display any...
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Thu, Nov 12 2009 03:00PM
Tackling search overload in the UK Whilst the internet has drastically grown in depth and complexity over the last decade, search engines had not followed the same evolution, leaving users with ten blue links to find their way in this always more complex...
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Wed, Nov 11 2009 10:33AM
Check out the latest news from the Bing Blog: Bing’s Next Chapter Begins Today – what’s new and what’s coming up with Bing. The U.S. rollout is just starting so you’ll be seeing new features over time. From Bing: Since June...
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Wed, Oct 21 2009 12:01PM
News about Twitter from the Bing Blog : Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You One of the most interesting things going on today on the Internet is the notion of the real time web. The idea of accessing data in real time has been an elusive goal in the...