Keeping tabs on your favorite NFL teams and players just got faster. Today, were releasing an improved NFL Instant Answer to the Bing results page giving you instant access to whats happening across the league. Now, when you search for an NFL team, individual player or NFL score you will instantly see the latest scores and statistics at the top of Bing. Player Stats at a Glance Curious, to know how your favorite player is faring? Time to make a trade?

Whether its planning the family feast, finding the perfect gift or grabbing a parking spot at the mall, holiday decisions can be overwhelming. With that in mind, we have invited Susan Carraretto, one half of the identical twin blogger team behind 5 Minutes for Mom to join the #BingIt crew this Wednesday, November 9 th at 12 p.m. PT. Susan is an internet loving, passionately driven,

Today, we are lifting the curtains on Bing Central , one location for you to explore Bing services and features by completing fun missions, manage your Bing Rewards account, redeem great rewards in the redemption center and access account support as well as your profiles and preferences for Travel, Maps, Finance, and Shopping. Bing Central gives you a hub to manage everything you do with Bing. From checking your Bing Reward offers and redeeming credits,

Congratulations to the winners of the Bing Decide Your Best Halloween Costume sweepstakes. On October 25 th , we asked you to tell us about the best Halloween costume you have ever worn. To enter, participants were asked to tweet their replies to the @Bing handle and utilize the #BingHalloween hashtag. We are excited to report that the following 5 entrants were the lucky winners of the contest: @amandafgordon , @CullyWaggoner , @concisecactus , @jen276here ,

Weve spent the better part of a year now hitting the shows, running surveys and holding focus groups. Along with the information we captured direct from the webmaster community through those sources, there is the daily flow of inbound suggestions and, yes, items needing to be fixed, that we can draw insights from. Now, just in time for the holidays, were rolling out the latest features and updates, most of which come directly from user feedback. You spoke, we listened,

Microsoft Newscenter posted an interesting interview with Sean Suchter who heads up our social search team on the Silicon Valley Campus as well as two of his team members Paul Yiu and Tim Harrington. The three share their perspectives on the challenges and possibilities for search to evolve with increasingly social nature of the the Web as well as their thoughts on life in general. Head over to Microsoft Newscenter to read the interview .

Today, were excited to announce the next step in the evolution of Bing for Mobile, with the release of the new Bing for Mobile app for iPhone and Android )coming soon to more devices(. Todays update uses HTML5 to blend the mobile browse experience with the app experience so you get a consistent and fast mobile search experience whether youre using m.bing.com from your browser or the Bing app. Rather than tightly binding functions into a mobile client,

Well, its day 1 in Movember and I'm off to a smooth start... And while watching this crazy show of growing mustaches will be fun, let's not forget there's a serious side to this effort. The goal isn't merely to grow a cool handlebar, but to raise awareness and donations for Movember to pass along to charities such as Livestrong. This month, formerly known as November, is dedicated to growing moustaches and raising awareness and funds for men's health.

Its November which means the holidays are already upon us! With Thanksgiving right around the corner, well be hosting a #BingIt Twitter event with Americas favorite healthy cooking expert Ellie Krieger . Krieger is a Registered Dietician, New York Times best-selling author )her latest book Comfort Food Fix came out on October 17 th ( and host of Healthy Appetite on The Cooking Channel.

Youre thinking I've lost my mind. Theres no way there could possibly be a common element between schema.org and moustaches. Theres no way facial hair and sitemaps could comingle. "He's gone stark, 'shaving' mad!" Well guess again folks. Its 2011, were an advanced, tech-savvy industry and weve just discovered a way to mix moustaches, money and your <last modified> statements! Starting on November 1st, join us as we raise money for Movember. Thats right.

Last year, we worked with Mozilla to add Bing as a search option that ships with Firefox. Since that time, you have told us to make it even easier to use Bing in Firefox. So today were teaming with Mozilla to release Firefox with Bing , a version of the popular Web browser that includes default search settings for Bing.

With Halloween right around the corner, people are racking their brains to come up with creative costume ideas. Well, we want to help those folks find some inspiration so were inviting you to share your best Halloween costumes with @Bing. Simply tell us your all-time best costume and we will give five lucky respondents a $100 Amazon gift card for sharing. Today )October 25 th (,

Paul Steele , author of popular travel blog, Bald Hiker , is an internationally recognized expert on the art of travel. Paul joined Twitter three years ago and has amassed an active and engaged audience who follow along as he shares his adventures in real-time. From his hikes and charity mountain climbs throughout the world, Paul is continuously sharing his personal views with like-minded adventurers as they happen. In other words,

When Im asked how search needs to change, I often talk about how many new types of data and services need to be incorporated into the results to help you do something rather than just find something. That means there could be thousands of new businesses created that Bing can tap into in much the same way we use Everyscape for our restaurant interior panoramas, or ParkingFinder.com to help you find the cheapest garage before a Lakers game. But there is room for many,

Celebrity stylists Rob Zangardi and Mariel Haenn who have styled stars including Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, and Will and Jada Smith are back with tips to pull together amazing )and affordable( Halloween costumes. Whether its dressing like a rock star, going retro fabulous or channeling your inner Nicki Manaj, Rob and Mariel have you covered. Check out their tips in the following videos. Use their looks and tips as inspiration, and youll be good to go!

The ability to use language and the capacity to translate between languages is one of the characteristics that define us as humans. Over the last decade, world class researchers - both at our own research labs and around the world have been working on the problem of machine translation, the results of which you are able to enjoy today on Bing and in many other Microsoft products. Last month at the BUILD conference, Satya Nadella, )President,

Congratulations to the winners of the Bing Decide Your Local Hotspot sweepstakes. On September 29the, we asked you to share your favorite local places with us on Twitter. We got some great suggestions. We are excited to announce the 5 winners: @BillyPadgett , @scosby , @martiferg , @Judge_Dan , and @ericwilborn . Each of them will be receiving a Samsung Focus Windows 7 Phone. Thanks to everyone who entered and stay tuned for the next Twitter contest on @Bing .

We are pleased to announce the winners, pending official confirmation, of the three Bing Rewards sweepstakes that ended on September 30. Were also pleased to announce that were now running sweepstakes on a monthly basis and have just launched the first set of these for October. Keep reading for details on the new prizes and how to enter, but first congratulations to our latest winners. Beverly B.

Now, you too can be a zombie on The Walking Dead. Bing is celebrating the season premiere of this the break out show with a spooky new video, which will air during the premier of The Walking Dead, and sponsoring a contest where you can channel your inner zombie to appear on an upcoming episode. Were teaming with AMC to give one lucky winner a stagger-on role in The Walking Dead: Season 3.

Jenny Barnett Rohr is a self-taught craftista and the brains behind the nationally renowned do-it-yourself site Craft Test Dummies . Jenny believes that creativity is innate and that when you tell your inner critic to just shut up already you can have a lot of fun and learn something about yourself. In that spirit, she will be chatting with the BingIt team about ways to unlock your inner crafter this Fall. Youre invited to join the conversation on Wednesday,