The United Kingdom’s Intellectual Property Office, along with representatives from Google, Bing, and the several creative industries have managed to come together and develop a ‘Voluntary Code of Practice’ that might affect how people within the complicated borders of the UK search for their pirated content. Google, Bing, the Motion …
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Microsoft today announced an update for the satellite imagery in Bing Maps. The two countries getting the updated imagery are Australia and India. The total area updated with new images is about 10,805,501 square kilometers; 7,685,768 square kilometers in Australia, and 3,119,733 square kilometers in India. It’s an update for …
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After recently updating the Bing app on Android with features like 360 Search and music search, the Bing team isn’t taking a rest; an update for the Android app released today adds an incredibly useful feature – search by image. Once you have the latest update, you can take a …
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Bing is receiving an exciting update – the ability to save search results so that you can look them up later, on any of your devices. Microsoft isn’t the first one to think of something like this – but this might be the simplest implementation of it, yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOdjX3ggBc The …
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The American elections are over – for the next four years, Donald J. Trump will lead the country for better or worse. Hillary Clinton’s defeat took many by shock and surprise – including Microsoft, who’s Bing Predicts algorithm claimed an 89.7% for Hillary Clinton to be the next POTUS. Unlike …
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Microsoft’s foray into the search business with Bing was rather inevitable, considering how big Google became by building its foundation on top of its search. Microsoft, however, always does some things unique to Microsoft – Bing Predicts is something similar. In less than 24 hours, the United States of America …
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Bing has launched a new dashboard to help users track and provide historical statistics for DMCA notices submitted by them. Bing provides an interesting analogy to introduce this feature – divorce. In Microsoft’s words: “Lack of communication is a leading cause of divorce. Communication is vital, and sharing the status …
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The AMP Project was launched in February of 2016 and has seen widespread adoption since then. While it is mostly spearheaded by Google; it is open source, and provides a vast JavaScript library of its own with restrictions on 3rd-party JavaScript. Today, Bing is adding support for AMP pages in their …
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Microsoft has been rewarding people who use Bing since 2010 – with the Bing Rewards. Microsoft quite literally paid people to use the Bing search engine. The strategy seems to have worked for them. Now the company has rebranded Bing Rewards as Microsoft Rewards. With Microsoft Rewards, Microsoft plans on …
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Football season starts today, and Microsoft is going to make this season a tiny bit more special. Four years ago NFL replaced all of their iPads on the sidelines and coach’s booths with Microsoft Surface tablets. Earlier this year in August, Microsoft also announced they would be making available limited …
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