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Bing Maps at the Imagine Cup 2012 Finals
By Ricky Brundritt, EMEA Bing Maps Technology Solution Professional The Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition. In ten years, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a...
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Bing Fund Welcomes Buddy Platform, Inc. and Pinion Tech, LLC.
We originally announced Bing Fund on July 12, 2012. It is an angel fund with an incubator program that gives startups access to Microsoft technology assets and expertise, and funding. The team has been...
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The Secret Sauce of SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving a website to make it more relevant to searchers and search engines. At its very core, SEO is about improving usability on a website. Let’s...
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How to: the Bing Get Me There App for iOS
The Bing team just recently released the Bing Get Me There App for iOS following the apps original release for the Windows Phone. Bing Get Me There is a London (UK) travel app that gets people from A...
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Travel + Leisure to Join #BingIt Chat This Thursday
The experts from Travel + Leisure will join us for this week’s #BingIt chat Thursday, August 16 from 12 pm -1 pm PDT. With the recent release of the August 2012 Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards...
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Introducing Bing on Windows 8
We’re excited today to announce the Bing app for Windows 8. We’ve completely reimagined search for the new experiences of Windows 8, and the RTM release of Windows 8 shows off just how far we’ve come....
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How to create search friendly content
It’s no secret that creating compelling, unique content is the way forward. It’s also no secret that creating that content takes time and work. But is it really as hard as people seem to think it is?...
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Bing Search Quality Insights: Minimizing Answer Defects
Back in March, Jan Pedersen explored the topic of Whole Page Relevance. In the post, he outlined how Bing ranks media objects to deliver a rich set of results that go beyond just web pages using...
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Get more useful metrics out of your Site Dashboard in Webmaster Tools
Yesterday we released a change to the way we calculate % Change in the Site Activity widget in the Bing Webmaster Tools Dashboard section. For the metrics Clicks from search, Appeared in search, Pages...
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Bing Adds Quora Experts to Social Sidebar
Search is amazing at amassing and presenting the right information from across the web to help you find what you’re looking for, learn new things and get stuff done. At Bing we think there’s a ton of...
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Four areas of search and social focus
Most sites end up bucketing their work for SEO and social into four main areas, thought his may not be a conscious decision. You may label them differently, and some may be fuller than others, but the...
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Money Saving Mom to Talk Back to School in Wednesday’s #BingIt Chat
Money saving expert and creator of the Money Saving Mom blog, Crystal Paine will join us for this week’s #BingIt chat on Wednesday, August 29 from 12 pm – 1 pm PDT. We’ll discuss how to get your family...
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Bing Maps V7 AJAX Highlights
The Bing Maps V7 AJAX control was originally released in November 2010 and has since received a number of features and updates. Let’s run through the highlights. Redesigned from the ground up The map...
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Global Ortho Project Complete for United States
In 2010 the Bing Maps team began its most ambitious mapping endeavor ever with the start of its Global Ortho (GO) project. Today we are excited to announce the completion of the GO project in the...
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Search and Browse your Facebook Friends' Photos on Bing
Looking for that epic shot from last winter’s ski trip? Or the I-could-die-laughing photo of your roommate’s cat dancing? With more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day, photo...
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How to Verify that Bingbot is Bingbot
Since we posted about this topic a long, long time ago (especially if we’re counting in Internet years), it’s time for a refresher on how to verify that a bot visiting your site claiming to be a Bing...
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People Prefer Bing Web Search Results Over Google Nearly 2:1 – Bring on the...
Since we launched Bing we’ve been hard at work to deliver relevant, useful search results that help you go from searching to doing. Awhile ago, we began to notice an interesting trend in our internal...
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Search Quality Insights: Behind the Bing It On Challenge
As I mentioned in my original post there has never been a more exciting or challenging time to be in the search space. The core to a great search engine has been and will always remain the same:...
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ESRI Shapefiles and Bing Maps
ESRI Shapefiles are a popular file format for storing geospatial data. The format was created by ESRI, one of the largest GIS companies in the world and a Microsoft Partner. The shapefile format has...
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Microsoft Advertising Names adCenter Bing Ads and Introduces Yahoo! Bing Network
Last May, Microsoft Advertising streamlined how small and medium size businesses interact with our advertising and marketing programs. Today they are taking it a step further with the introduction of...
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