Over the past few months , we have been working hard to help customers make more informed decisions in search by surfacing the kind of information you can only get from your friends, often in real-time. Today, we are pleased introduce two new ways to experience Twitter and Facebook on Bing. Bing News adds real-time Twitter updates: Awhile back we introduced Bing social which lets you plunge into the real-time tweet stream to uncover the latest updates on the Web.

Bing has teamed with Xtranormal, the next generation filmmakers who bring movie-making to the people, to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, over $10,000 in prizes and for the first time ever- their likeness memorialized as an Xtranormal character for life. Until April 14, we invite you to visit: www.xtranormal.com/bing and create a 2 minute )or under( video highlighting the theme decisions across three genres: horror, action and romance. Judges including Fisher Stevens,

Today, we launched updates to the Bing for Mobile browse )m.bing.com( making it easier for you to get and view information while on the go. New features in this update include better and faster image search, real-time transit and directions, app search for the iPhone, and more. Utilizing HTML5, the new features are offered on Smartphone browsers for the iPhone and Android. If you have a Windows Phone 7 device, dont worry,

Hi everyone. Duane Forrester here from the Bing Webmaster team. Just wanted to take a few minutes to recap some of the recent shows weve hit and alert folks to be on the lookout for us at SES NY March 21 25, 2011. Heres a list of the sessions the Bing & adCenter folks will be speaking at in New York: Conference Day 1 Tuesday March 22, 11:30 AM Search: Where to Next Duane Forrester Conference Day 1 Tuesday March 22,

Planning a trip? With Bing's new attractions pages you can find everything you're looking for in one spot. Bing pulls together details on top city attractions like the Space Needle or the Smithsonian so you can quickly find the information youre looking for. Everything you need to plan your excursion - including reviews, events and photos - are now in one place. To ensure you have up-to-the-minute information,

Today, our friends on the Internet Explorer team released the latest version of the worlds most used browser, Internet Explorer 9 . Please join us in wishing them a heartfelt congrats! Over 40 million people downloaded the Beta version of IE9 and already 250 top sites and over 1000 other partners from around the globe have taken advantage of IE9 capabilities to deliver differentiated experiences to their customers. Internet Explorer 9 is the best browser for Windows.

When discussing relevance in search, people often cite personalization as the next frontier in delivering more relevant results. Traditional methods of personalization have been based on something called collaborative filtering. At its simplest, collaborative filtering means if user A and user B both like something, then you can predict user As future likes based on what user B likes.

The Bing team is excited to make our annual pilgrimage to the tech mecca that is SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas. Harnessing the beehive of community love floating about in the air of 6 th Street and beyond, Bing has plenty of activities planned. To all the geek rockstars descending upon awesome Austin, we hope you can join us. Heres the list of our activities. March 12@5:00PM Left Brain Search = Google.

What if you could enlist the best minds in the tech industry to consult for your nonprofit or startup? What if you could corral the top product designers, search engine marketing experts and platform gurus from Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft in one room, describe your marketing challenges and have them brainstorm areas for improvement? A few months ago, at the inaugural social hackathon )sponsored by Bing and Windows Live Hotmail( we did just that.

Today marks the start of SMX West in San Jose. The Bing and Microsoft Advertising teams are out in force this week covering a breadth of search related topics. If youre attending, check out the sessions )listed below( and pay us a visit at Booth #200. If you cant make it in person, you can join the conversations happening at #smx on Twitter. Looking forward to the conversation. Aya Zook, Bing TUESDAY,

Bing is teaming with Rovio, the folks behind the cultural phenomenon, Angry Birds, to put a new twist on the birds vs. pigs saga. Starting today, you can watch as the pigs scheme creative ways to get their hooves on the treasured eggs via a 4-part animated video series sponsored by Bing. Check out the first videos below and visit the Bing YouTube channel to follow the next installments. For a limited period,

Since the launch of Bing, our goal has been to create a new and different search experience focused on helping you make faster, more informed decisions. We set out to do this by delivering great results, organizing the results in more visual and useful way and simplifying key tasks across all the things customers are doing in search, including shopping, health, local and travel. Along the way, weve teamed up with some great vertical search partners to help us bring new,

Calling all bargain hunters, deal lovers, Groupon groupies and Living Social fanatics! Things just got easier. Today were launching Bing deals for the desktop and mobile )m.bing.com( giving you access to more than 200,000 unique offers in over 14,000 cities and towns across the U.S. Bing deals assembles leading offers from Groupon, Living Social and Restaurant.com )just to name a few(, making it easier to discover,

This week, Bing and REDU are excited to partner with TED to host a mini-think tank with some of the leading minds in education. The TEDActive Education Project will explore such questions as how we might empower kids to make an impact on education system, and the role of internet and social media in facilitating conversations around education.

Sometimes shopping can be overwhelming. With so many choices, at so many different price points, you continually have to refine your search to find something within your budget. Wouldnt it be great if you could just type what youre thinking into the search box? Say, Air Jordans under $100 or " Hudson jeans under $200 " and let Bing do the work. With improvements to natural language search arriving in Bing, now you can. With help from Microsoft Research,

Bing travel crunches over a billion airfares on a daily basis to bring you Price Predictors, and we use that data to uncover cheap airline tickets every day. To help you find great deals even faster, we are introducing Autosuggest Flight Prices which display flight prices and the Price Predictor for key markets directly in the search box. Before you ever hit the enter key, you will see our prediction for the best flight price deal over the next 90 days.

A few months ago , we announced an exciting partnership with Facebook to make search more social. As part of th at work , we introduced Liked Results, which promotes links your friends have publicly liked or shared via Facebook. Today we are extending Liked Results to annotate any of the URLs returned by our algorithmic search results to all users in the US. While we are very excited to talk about our next development, were all aware that its all part of a longer journey.

In celebration of Presidents Day, Bing has created a Visual Search Gallery highlighting the past 44 US leaders. Who was the youngest president in office? Which presidents are depicted on US currency? What were their professions prior to holding office? Discover all of this and more in a matter of clicks. Use the left rail to refine your search or simply click one of the tabs to sort by category. Happy Presidents Day!

When we look ahead, the one thing we can safely predict is the rate of innovation happening in the 21st century will only get faster. Over the past 10 years, we have seen the rise of a strong online economy, bloody revolutions tweeted globally and the compression of information into tiny amounts of physical space. Thanks to those changes, the cell phone changed its form factor and capabilities, and real-time updates from cell phones have become a signpost to the future.

Today we are excited to announce the launch of Bing Bar, available for download here . Engineered from the ground up, the new Bing Bar gives you quick access to all the stuff you do online. Conducting a search, checking Facebook or keeping tabs on email, Bing Bar centralizes the most common things you do while helping you discover new features that let you get the most out of Bing. Because we know you dont have time to read manuals or watch how to videos,