Bing announced today that later this year it will be starting a new program called Bing for Schools. Under this program, schools in the U.S. will be able to tailor the experience for K-12 students as Bing will offer them ad and adult content free results
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Bing’s making a play for schools with a new ad-free version of search. And in addition to wiping the ads, Bing for Schools will also boast enhanced privacy protection, explicit content filtering by default, and other features to "promote digital literacy." Not a bad idea!
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Bing is headed to the classroom in a more targeted form, with Redmond announcing this morning a new version of the engine dubbed “Bing for Schools.” The initiative takes the standard Bing search engine and cuts all adverts in search, filters “adult content” (the specifications of that are murky) adds more privacy protection, and adds “specialized learning features to enhance digital literacy.” Schools can opt in on a per-case basis, and if they do, that will enable the specialized version of Bing on an entire school’s network. The program’s kicking off “later this year,” and interested parties can put their name in the hat right here. Should you like to see the full note introducing Bing for Schools from Microsoft’s Bing Behavioral Scientist Matt Wallaert, we’ve dropped it just beyond the break.
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On Thursday, Microsoft detailed its Bing improvement efforts, which largely concern a variety of testing and experimentation that takes place unannounced, often without anything noticeable happening on the consumer end of things. One experiment, however, will be very visible to those who receive it, and for this reason it has been formally announced: Bing Boards.
Bing might not yet have achieved true verb status, but it’s definitely making all the right moves to get there. The latest twist on search? Curated content in search results. It’s an experimental feature at the moment — live in the US, but possibly not all territories just yet — that delivers collections of images, videos or links relating to your query a-la Google’s Knowledge Graph, but curated by a person (not an algorithm). Microsoft’s testing the waters with a hand-picked selection of food and lifestyle bloggers right now, but hopes to expand this to more topics as the idea grows. Head to the more coverage link if you want to see what these cards might look like, in the meantime, time to dust off that abandoned spreadsheet blog?
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You use Google. Or maybe, just maybe you use Bing. Sometimes one is better. Sometimes the other is prettier. Sometimes it’s the other way around. Whatever. The most hilarious, ridiculous difference between the two though? How they auto-complete the Xbox One. Google Instant finds words like terrible, ugly, a joke and so forth. Bing? Just one. Amazing.
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Windows Phone users may have noticed speedier results when using voice recognition in recent weeks, and depending on how well the feature works for them, perhaps also a slight increase in accuracy. This is because Microsoft has just announced a Bing update that has been getting pushed to users over the last few weeks, bringing
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