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August 28, 2013
Bing and SkyDrive bring out the words in photos

Starting Wednesday, when you take photos with your Windows Phone device and auto-upload to your SkyDrive camera roll folder, a new Bing-powered optical character recognition tool (OCR) will run on those photos so you can instantly see the extracted text in those pictures.

August 23, 2013
Compare Bing’s improved image search results vs. Google

The Search Quality Insights Blog reports on some of its various techniques that zero in on what people are really looking for, which will hopefully save them time in finding what they want. And to make it more interesting, the blog post shows those techniques at work against Google results.

August 21, 2013
Bing for Schools offers new ad-free search experience for students

The pilot program, called Bing for Schools, allows districts to remove all ads from Web searches on school computers – the first time a major search engine has offered schools this choice. Bing for Schools also offers enhanced privacy protections, strict filters to block adult content and daily learning activities built around the Bing Home Page.

August 19, 2013
Submit your photos to Bing’s Hometown Homepage photography contest

In celebration of World Photography Day, Bing partnered with Discovery to kick off a contest for photographers of every level. Find out how to submit photos of your hometown to the Bing Hometown Homepage Photo Contest between Aug. 19 and Sept. 3. (U.S. residents only)

August 7, 2013
These 4 Bing apps are Windows 8 favorites, and now they’re on Windows Phone too

Four standouts from Bing’s stellar suite of Windows 8 apps are now available on Windows Phone, the Bing Blog reports. The mobile versions of the apps – Bing News, Bing Sports, Bing Weather and Bing Finance – are as elegantly designed, highly personalized and packed with world-class content as their desktop counterparts.