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Bing’s Satori Adds Timeline Data For About 500k Famous People

Satori, Bing’s knowledge index, is expanding with the addition of timeline-style facts about important individuals. The new “Timeline” section is now showing up in the right-side search results for famous people such as Abraham Lincoln and Isaac Asimov (shown above), along with...
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Bing Ends Sponsorship Deal With WNBA’s Seattle Storm

After a four-year sponsorship deal with the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, the Seattle Times reported yesterday that Bing will no longer be the marquee sponsor for the team co-owned by Microsoft executive Lisa Brummel. The report claimed the deal had been valued at $1 million per year,...
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Bing Maps Makes It Easier To See Map Features & Distinguish Park Trails From Streets

Last Friday, Bing Maps announced new stylistic updates, designed to make its maps easier to read. Among the new style features, Bing has added more color gradient, adjusting the brightness of a land area depending on the zoom level. From the announcement: The land color will now...
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Bing Adds Khan Academy Courses & Book Finding Results

Bing has added two new search features for the school break season. (1) The ability to search for free online courses offered by the Khan Academy. (2) The ability to search for books that you can buy online, pick up at a local library and/or view fully online. Khan Academy...
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Bing Adds School Ratings To Search Results

Microsoft Bing has announced they’ve added a new feature to the school snapshot boxes on the right hand panel — the school’s rating. They’ve added school ratings, rankings and academic indicators directly in Bing Snapshot. Microsoft says this works for searching for schools from...
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Bing Correctly Predicts “No” Win In Scotland Independence Vote

A few days ago, we reported that Bing predicted on September 15th that the vote for Scotland’s independence would be a “No” with a 52.5% vote for No and a 47.5% vote for Yes. The final results are now in, and it was a 55% vote for No, so Bing’s prediction was correct and very […]...
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Bing Rolls Out New Updates For Its iPhone App

Bing has released new updates for its iPhone app, adding a Bing Translator button, as well as including Bing’s image of the day and trending stories to the Today screen. The new Translator feature can be accessed by tapping the share icon in the app and then clicking the “Bing...
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Bing Adds New Crawlers To Support Non-Responsive Mobile Designs

Bing announced a new set of mobile crawlers with Bingbot Mobile User Agents to better support and recognize mobile websites that are not responsively designed. Lee Xiong from the Bing Crawl team explained Bing has designed these new crawlers to “probe websites with a number of...
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Bing uses user engagement metrics for ranking websites in search

But Bing looks at these signals in a holistic manner for ranking purposes. Not too long ago, Bing documented its search ranking factors at a very high level. One of those signals I found interesting was the user engagement metrics; including click throughs, pogosticking, clicking...
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Bing applies AI and natural language models to autosuggest, People Also Ask

Intelligent answers and semantic highlighting are also rolling out to more markets. Bing is now using natural language generation models (models that generate text) to improve its autosuggest and People Also Ask (PAA) features, the company announced Wednesday. It is also...