8 Social and SEO myths reviewed
Last week I participated in an #seochat. One comment that someone took exception with was the idea of how "authority" is defined. Essentially, this person took exception with the notion that to be...
View ArticleNokia Lumia 900 Now Available in the US
Yesterday the first 4G LTE Windows Phones at AT&T, including the highly-anticipated Nokia Lumia 900 began to roll out. You can now go online or visit AT&T and Microsoft stores across the U.S....
View ArticleGearing up for API changes
For the past several years, the Bing Search API has made search data available for developers to innovate and build upon. Today we are announcing that the Bing Search API will transition to an offering...
View Article@Bing “Get Things Done this Foursquare Day with Bing” Sweepstakes
We’re ‘checking-in’ and kicking it into high gear on Foursquare Day! Foursquare Day was a grass-roots campaign founded by users in 2010 to celebrate the social media platform. This April 16th...
View ArticleImplementing Markup For Paginated And Sequenced Content
Late last week I bumped into David Flink, one of our Lead Program Managers here at Bing and after a brief chat, he agreed to write this week's blog post detailing a view on implementing paganation...
View ArticleWhat Are You Doing for Earth Day 2012? The Nature Conservancy Joins #BingIt Chat
Earth Day 2012 is just around the corner. We’re teaming with The Nature Conservancy to inspire you to get out and do something for the environment on April 22nd. The Nature Conservancy is the leading...
View ArticleFind Venue Maps, Businesses and Buildings Faster on Bing Maps
Today we’re excited to announce the release of a handful of updates to maps to help users navigate faster and find business, building and venue information to help you go from doing to done more...
View ArticleNew Translator App for Windows Phone Powered by Bing Available for Free Download
Achtung! Внимание! Attenzione! Aufmerksamkeit! 注意! Attention! Today we are releasing an updated version of the Translator App for Windows Phone powered by Bing....
View ArticleBing Bar 7.1 Rolling Out: Connect with Facebook Chat, Listen to Slacker...
We’re constantly looking for ways to make Bing Bar more useful. The primary way we do this is based on how you are using the product- which features are used most, which aren’t being used. You’ve told...
View ArticleWin a Nokia Lumia 900 & Xbox 360 prize pack from Bing Rewards
Bing Rewards has launched two new sweepstakes for a Nokia Lumia 900 and a Xbox 360® that will run through May 1st. Continue reading for details on these great prizes and how to enter, but first...
View ArticleVideo killed the radio star, but we still want your videos
Feeds allow Bing to easily learn about the videos on your website. The purpose is to help Bing include your video content in the Bing index, which may not have otherwise been discovered by Bing's web...
View ArticleReducing the Complexity of Rendering Shapes
One of the most common themes I hear about Bing Maps is that we don’t make it easy to render “GIS Stuff” via our APIs. In fact, one of the first features I spec’d when I moved to the Bing Maps team as...
View ArticleBing Desktop Brings Beauty and Convenience to Windows 7
From the beginning, Bing has been a place for exploration. The Bing homepage images aspire to spark your curiosity giving you something to talk about and connect with. Over the years, many of you have...
View ArticleVideo killed the radio star, but we still want your videos
Feeds allow Bing to easily learn about the videos on your website. The purpose is to help Bing include your video content in the Bing index, which may not have otherwise been discovered by Bing's web...
View ArticleARTICQUE Using Bing Maps to Localize French Election Results
This website is provided by ARTICQUE, an electoral specialist and editor of statistical mapping technologies. With this application, you can easily analyze election results at a Country, Department and...
View ArticleIntegrating Bing Maps With WPF
Back in August, Chris Pendleton announced the Beta for our Bing Maps WPF control. Today, Bing Maps moves beyond Silverlight and AJAX with the new native WPF Control, which enables you to build...
View ArticleBetter than canonical; URL Normalization
At Bing, we have to crawl and index The Internet and The Internet is pretty big. One common question that Fabrice Canel, a veteran of search here, is commonly asking people is to figure out how big the...
View ArticleTwitter Sweeps: @Bing + Death Cab for Cutie at The Bing Lounge
Attention, music fans! Alt rock group Death Cab for Cutie, will be giving a live performance at the Bing Lounge in Portland, Oregon on May 11. To share the love, we’ll be giving an exclusive meet and...
View ArticleBing Gets a New Look
Bing is getting a new look. Starting today you will notice a fresh, de-cluttered experience designed to help you find the results you want faster. Over the past few months, we’ve run dozens of...
View ArticleTo crawl or not to crawl, that is BingBot's question
If you are reading this column, there is a good chance you publish quality content to your web site, which you would like to get indexed by Bing. Usually, things go smoothly: BingBot visits your web...
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