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Bing Adds School Ratings To Search Results

Published on 2014/07/17 By admin

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.

Bing Adds Khan Academy Courses & Book Finding Results

Published on 2014/07/01 By admin

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.

Bing Expands Snapshot With New Food & Drug Entities

Published on 2014/05/16 By admin

Bing is getting smarter today with the addition of food- and drug-related entities to its library of facts. The new at-a-glance information for these searches will appear in the Snapshot area on the right side of Bing’s search results. In some cases, like the hamburger search shown below, the…

Bing Improves Tax Related Search Results Before April 15th

Published on 2014/02/25 By admin

Microsoft Bing has added new features to the Bing search results when you search for tax related queries. This is being done because Bing and other search engines see a huge increase in the number of tax related queries between January and April, i.e.

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

Published on 2014/02/21 By admin

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… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Bing’s Knowledge Repository, Satori, Just Got A Lot Smarter

Published on 2013/12/12 By admin

Dr. Richard Qian from the Microsoft Bing Index & Knowledge Team announced some major updates to Satori, Bing’s version of Google’s knowledge graph. The updates are vast and incredibly smart, making the Bing knowledge repository a lot more useful and interactive

Microsoft Touts Bing Smart Search In New TV Ad For Windows 8.1 Release Tomorrow

Published on 2013/10/16 By admin

Microsoft is pushing its new Bing Smart Search feature, which will hit the streets tomorrow when the company releases Windows 8.1. Bing Smart Search is a feature in the new OS that simultaneously searches the web, the cloud (Microsoft SkyDrive), your PC and — if you’re using a mobile…

Bing’s Page Zero Offers Deep Links & Shortcuts To Relevant Information Straight From The Search Box

Published on 2013/09/20 By admin

Today, Bing released a detailed overview of its Page Zero experience, a new search feature that delivers deep links directly from the search box with shortcuts to relevant information associated with the search term. According to the announcement, the new feature gives “best”…

Bing News Gets Easy Way To Spot Trending Stories On Twitter & Facebook

Published on 2013/09/05 By admin

What are the top stories being shared on Facebook and Twitter? There’s a new way to get a sense of that.