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Bing Warns Shoppers: Don’t Get Scroogled This Holiday Season

By Guest PostNovember 28, 2012Technologybing, black friday, cyber monday, getting scroogled, google product search, google shopping, honest, Microsoft, new practice, pay to rank, product listing advertising, scroogled, search engine, search results

Microsoft launches national campaign to alert Americans to Google’s new pay-to-rank shopping search practices.

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 28, 2012 — Bing, Microsoft Corp.’s search engine, today is launching a national campaign to highlight Bing’s commitment to honest search results and to help explain to consumers the risks of Google Shopping’s newly announced “pay-to-rank” practice, in which the shopping search results customers see are not true search results such as they see elsewhere on Google; they are actually ads that are ranked, in part, by who pays the most. More information on these practices is available at https://www.scroogled.com.

Instead of showing you the most relevant shopping search results for the latest coffee maker you’re looking to buy mom, Google’s new redesigned shopping vertical now decides what to show you — and how prominently to display what product offers they show — based partially on how much a merchant selling the product has paid Google. Merchants can literally pay to improve their chances to display their product offers higher than others inside of Google’s shopping “search,” even if it’s not necessarily better or cheaper. That’s not right, it’s not transparent, it’s not what you expect from search, and it’s not how we at Bing think search engines should help consumers get the best prices and selection when shopping. Consumers are urged to visit https://www.scroogled.com to learn more about how to avoid getting “Scroogled,” a term used by Bing to describe Google’s new practice that leaves people with fewer choices and potentially higher prices. (more…)

Bing Challenges Nation to ‘Bing It On’

By Guest PostSeptember 6, 2012Technologyamerica, big box, bing, bing it on, challenge, Facebook, foursquare, Google, Google Search, kinect, knowledge graph, Microsoft, microsoft prize, mike nichols, mtv, pane, quality, quora, san diego, search engine, search result, social search, Twitter, video music awards, web, windows 8, xbox, xbox 360, xbox live

Study suggests people prefer Bing’s Web search results nearly 2-to-1 over Google.

REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 6, 2012 — Beginning today, America can click and choose which Web search results it prefers by participating in the Bing It On Challenge, available at Bing.com. Based on research that indicates people prefer Bing Web search results over Google, Bing is inviting consumers to come and see for themselves with an online test designed to show that the quality of Bing’s Web search results has surpassed Google’s.

Although most people identify themselves as Google searchers, an independent study commissioned by Microsoft Corp. shows people chose Bing Web search results over Google nearly 2-to-1 in blind comparison tests.* Given those findings, Bing decided it is time to let people see for themselves that there is a better option in search. (more…)

New Bing, Available Today, Takes You from Searching to Doing

By Guest PostJune 1, 2012Technologyabout bing, bing, bing design, search experience

In celebration of new search experience, Bing launches the Bing Summer of Doing with DoSomething.org

REDMOND, Wash. — June 1, 2012 — Do you ever feel like you’re spending too much time searching and not enough time doing? If so, you’re not alone. According to a recent survey conducted by Bing and Impulse Research, nearly 75 percent of people spend more time than they would like searching for information online. Time wasted searching is a thing of the past with the new Bing design, which brings together information from the Web, experts and enthusiasts, and your friends to help you do more — available today at https://www.bing.com. (more…)

The ‘New’ Bing: Transforming Search from Finding to Doing

By Guest PostMay 10, 2012Technologybing, derrick connell, Facebook, gartner analyst, Google, hawaii, la bernardin restaurant, Microsoft, new bing, new feature, new york city, online, online services division, qi lu, ray valdes, relevancy, robert dietz, sally salas, search, stefan weitz, Technology, Twitter, web, web page, web search

Bing’s new user experience surfaces the best from the Web, friends and experts to help people do more.

REDMOND, Wash. – May 10, 2012 – Microsoft today unveiled a major update to its Bing search engine that fundamentally transforms the way users search the Web. The update, the most significant since Microsoft launched Bing three years ago, is designed to help users act quickly by taking advantage of the Web’s evolving fabric.

With the new version of Bing, rolling out over the coming weeks and broadly available in the U.S. in early June, people can easily get advice and recommendations from friends and experts with the new social sidebar. They can also view useful, action-oriented information via the new snapshot feature. And they can find what they’re looking for faster, with more relevant results and a refreshed user interface. All of this is presented in a new, three-column design that focuses on helping users take the leap from finding information to making quick, informed decisions. (more…)

Microsoft Research Opens a Lab in New York City

By Guest PostMay 3, 2012Technologybing, christian borgs, cornell technion campus, cryptography, dan goldstein, david pennock, david rothschild, duncan watts, eric horvitz, jake hofman, jennifer chayes, john langford, manhattan, mayor, michael bloomberg, Microsoft, microsoft partner, new england, new york city, research lab, rick rashid, sharad goel, siddharth suri, sociology, tech hub, vowpal wabbit, xbox

New research lab will focus on computational and experimental social science, algorithmic economics, and machine learning, along with information retrieval.

NEW YORK CITY – In the two decades since the formation of Microsoft Research, the organization has grown from its beginnings on Microsoft’s corporate headquarters in Redmond, Wash., into a global research force with 12 labs across four continents — all devoted to advancing the state of the art in computing research and contributing cutting-edge advancements to Microsoft products.

Beginning May 3, that lab count increases to 13 with the creation of Microsoft Research New York City. (more…)

msnNOW Taps Social Media to Find, Explore the Web’s Hottest Trends in Real-Time

By Guest PostFebruary 17, 2012Technologybing, bloggers, bob visse, demand dashboard, Facebook, friday video, grammys, html, info snackers, jeremy lin, klaus diaconu, mobile phone, msn, msnnow, music industry, new york knicks, rebecca black, social media, Twitter, whitney houston, YouTube

*Go behind the scenes with msnNOW, a new service that provides up-to-the-minute updates on breaking news, trends, and social conversations.*

REDMOND, Wash. – It was a story that everyone hoped wasn’t true. On Saturday, Feb. 11, the day before the Grammys, Twitter and Facebook posts reported that one of the music industry’s once brightest stars, Whitney Houston, had died. Variations on the hashtag #RIPwhitney filled the top trending spots on Twitter. Facebook feeds were filled with memories of the late singer’s music – a first kiss, a first dance or first song ever bought. And YouTube exploded with videos of Houston’s past performances.

An hour or so after reports of the singer’s death began appearing via social media sites, the mainstream media began reporting confirmations of her death. As the day progressed, the major cable news stations began reading celebrity tweets aloud memorializing the singer and encouraging readers to visit their Facebook fan pages to join in the discussion. (more…)

Meet the Team Behind Windows Phone’s Breakthrough Design

By Guest PostDecember 15, 2011Technologybing, city of lost children, james drage, john f kennedy, joshua phillips, mango, Microsoft, microsoft news center, mobile operating system, mobile phones, mom factor, office, ricardo espinoza, smart dj, sue loh, user interface, windows phone, windows phone 7.5, windows phone shell team, xbox live, zune

*Four members of the Windows Phone Shell Team talk to the Microsoft News Center about their work designing the Windows Phone user interface as well as life inside and outside Microsoft.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Dec. 15, 2011 – It’s not every day that a person gets to create the user interface for a mobile phone that will be used by millions of people around the world. But that is exactly the work of a small group of engineers at Microsoft.

For the past several years, the Windows Phone Shell Team has been continually improving the user interface for Windows Phones with the goal of making them incredibly intuitive and engaging to use. The team recently completed work on Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango,” the largest and most feature-rich software refresh of Microsoft’s mobile operating system to date. (more…)

What Our Searches Tell Us About 2011: Bing Releases Most-Searched Terms of the Year

By Guest PostNovember 28, 2011Technologybing, most searched people, most searched terms, pr for bing

*From royal weddings and rising pop superstars to concerns for human tragedy and the global economy, Bing’s most-searched terms of the year capture America’s mood in 2011.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Nov. 28, 2011 – What do pop superstar Justin Bieber, new duchess Kate Middleton, and consumer electronics king Xbox have in common? No, they’re not all part of a wildly anticipated Hollywood sci-fi flick (at least not yet); they were some of the most popular search terms typed this past year on Bing. (more…)

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