Video Results Now Available in the Bing for Windows 8 App
Since we introduced Bing for Windows 8 in October, we have been continuously updating the app. Today we are releasing an update that includes touch friendly video results as well as web and image...
View ArticleGeocoding and Routing in Bing Maps Windows Store Apps (JavaScript)
In this blog post we are going to look at how implement Geocoding and Routing using the Bing Maps Windows Store App JavaScript SDK. If you are new to JavaScript development with the Bing Maps Windows...
View ArticleBing Your Brain: Test, Then Test Again
One of the unique interplays between psychology and language is the way in which we communicate using examples. If we were talking about a football game, for example, we would tend to focus on the...
View ArticleIntroducing the Bing Pulse and the Bing Interactive State of The Union...
This post has been reposted from the Official Microsoft Blog.On February 12th at 9pm ET, America will tune into one of the most anticipated events on the political calendar – the State of the Union...
View ArticleBing Webmaster Tools Search and Social Webinar
Yesterday saw almost 300 people attend our Search and Social webinar live and in person. As promised, here’s the video recording of that session. It’s another long one. We were tracking well on...
View ArticleTop GRAMMY Searches on Bing
The 55thGRAMMY Awards are over and today people are talking about the winners, the losers, the snubbed and the surprised. With that in mind, we thought it would be interesting to see how the results...
View Article3D Elevation Models with Bing Maps WPF
With the release of the Bing Maps REST Elevations service I started looking into cool and interesting things that can be done with the service. While doing some searching around, I stumbled across an...
View ArticleWith Over 12.9 million Votes, Bing Pulse Delivers the Largest Interactive...
Last night, millions of Americans tuned into President Obama’s State of the Union address – and Bing stood alone in giving people a rare opportunity to give real-time feedback and access live social...
View ArticleBing Maps REST Service Tips & Tricks
I’ve been a big fan of the Bing Maps REST services since they were first released several years ago and highly recommend trying them out if you haven’t already. The REST services are much newer than...
View ArticleTop Valentine’s Day Searches
Today we celebrate love and all of the vagaries of the human heart. To get a pulse on Valentine’s Day, we mined the depths of the Bing search index to get a sense for the top love-related search...
View ArticleWhat to Invest in, Women 2.0 and our next Webinar
Bing WMT had a great time this week presenting at Women 2.0 in San Francisco. It was exciting to see so many startups moving forward and to watch the prizes awarded for the pitch competition. Well...
View ArticleExploring Your Friends’ Photos Just Got Easier
At Bing, we are constantly looking for ways to improve the search experience based on how you are using the product. Last year we introduced Friends’ Photos, letting you quickly find that special photo...
View ArticleAttend the Bing Maps and SharePoint Solutions Webcast
You are invited to attend this webcast to learn how solutions that integrate Bing Maps and SharePoint help organizations gain greater insight from their business data to make smarter business...
View ArticleAnd The Oscar Goes To….
The long awaited 2013 Academy Awards air live this Sunday night, with movie buffs and general enthusiasts alike counting down to see who takes home the top honors. To help you prepare to be in the know...
View ArticleBuilding Sitemaps Manually?… Stop Until You Read This!
SEO is a complex and ever changing area but there are some key elements that are still as relevant now as they were a few years ago. One of them is building high-quality XML Sitemaps, a comprehensive...
View ArticleA Look at Autosuggest
At Bing there is no finish line, we are continuously looking for ways to improve the search experience. Sometimes the changes we make are bold and obvious, other times they are simple things that can...
View ArticleAnd the Oscar Went To…
The much anticipated Academy Awards aired last night and we are here today to share the top searches from the evening. We combed Bing searches to uncover the most searched moments, actors, movies and...
View ArticleBing, Microsoft Research Bring the Power of Social, Search and Whimsy to...
One of the highlights for us each year is our continuing partnership with the folks at TED, and being able to bring creative projects and technology to attendees at TEDActive. Last year, we sponsored...
View Article3D Elevation Models using HTML5 and Bing Maps
Recently we published a blog post on 3D Elevation Models with Bing Maps WPF. In this blog post we will show you how to create a tool for generating a 3D model of elevation data from the Bing Maps REST...
View ArticleIE10 for Windows 7 Enhanced with MSN and Bing
Yesterday, IE10 for Windows 7 went live and is, now available to the 700 million people using Windows across the globe. IE10 delivers a 20% increase in real-world site performance over IE9 making IE10...
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