34 Facts About Microsoft Bing

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Microsoft Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.

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Microsoft Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products.

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In October 2011, Microsoft Bing stated that they were working on new back-end search infrastructure with the goal of delivering faster and slightly more relevant search results for users.

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In May 2012, Microsoft Bing announced another redesign of its search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social feature that searches users' social networks for information relevant to the search query.

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Microsoft Bing originally launched MSN Search in the third quarter of 1998, using search results from Inktomi.

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Microsoft Bing decided to make a large investment in web search by building its own web crawler for MSN Search, the index of which was updated weekly and sometimes daily.

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Microsoft Bing recognized that there would be a problem with branding as long as the word "Live" remained in the name.

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Bing name was chosen through focus groups, and Microsoft decided that the name was memorable, short, and easy to spell, and that it would function well as a URL around the world.

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Microsoft Bing was assisted by branding consultancy Interbrand in their search for the best name for the new search engine.

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10.

Bing Translator is a user facing translation portal provided by Microsoft to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages.

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11.

In 2015 Microsoft Bing announced its knowledge and action API to correspond with Google's Knowledge graph with 1 billion instances and 20 billion related facts.

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Microsoft Bing concluded that the time and location of major weather events could accurately be predicted without referring to a weather forecast by observing major increases in search frequency of school districts in the area.

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13.

The first reality shows to be featured on Microsoft Bing Predicts were The Voice, American Idol, and Dancing with the Stars.

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14.

Microsoft Bing Predicts predicts the outcomes of major political elections in the United States.

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Microsoft Bing Predicts made predictions for the results of the 2016 United States presidential primaries.

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16.

Microsoft Bing is available in many languages and has been localized for many countries.

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17.

Microsoft Bing allows webmasters to manage the web crawling status of their own websites through Microsoft Bing Webmaster Center.

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18.

Microsoft Bing Mobile allows users to conduct search queries on their mobile devices, either via the mobile browser or a downloadable mobile application.

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19.

Microsoft Bing News is a news aggregator powered by artificial intelligence.

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20.

Microsoft Bing Desktop allows users to initiate a web search from the desktop, view news headlines, automatically set their background to the Microsoft Bing homepage image, or choose a background from the previous nine background images.

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21.

Similar program, the Microsoft Bing Search gadget, was a Windows Sidebar Gadget that used Microsoft Bing to fetch the user's search results and render them directly in the gadget.

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22.

UK advertising agencies point to a study by Microsoft's Regional Sales Director suggesting the demographic of Bing users is older people, and that this audience is wealthier and more likely to respond to advertisements.

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23.

Since 2006, Microsoft Bing had conducted a number of tie-ins and promotions for promoting Microsoft Bing's search offerings.

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24.

Microsoft Bing's debut featured an $80 to $100 million online, TV, print, and radio advertising campaign in the US.

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25.

Microsoft Bing has been heavily advertised as a "decision engine", though thought by columnist David Berkowitz to be more closely related to a web portal.

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26.

Microsoft Bing Rewards provided credits to users through regular Microsoft Bing searches and special promotions.

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27.

Microsoft Bing was added into the list of search engines available in Opera browser from v10.

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28.

However, Microsoft Bing allows users to change their country or region preference to somewhere without restrictions, such as the United States, United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland.

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Microsoft Bing has not indicated a willingness to stop censoring search results in simplified Chinese characters in the wake of Google's decision to do so.

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30.

Around 4 June 2021, the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Microsoft Bing blocked image and video search results for the English term "Tank Man" in the US, UK, France, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, and other countries.

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31.

Microsoft Bing responded that "This is due to an accidental human error".

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Microsoft Bing has been criticized for being slower to index websites than Google.

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33.

In 9 out of the 100 queries, Microsoft Bing later started returning the same results as Google, despite the only apparent connection between the result and search term being that Google's results connected the two.

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Microsoft Bing vowed to fix the problem and assign additional staff to combat the issue after the report was released.

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