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  • Bing News Gets New Look, Trending Topics From Facebook, Twitter

    Microsoft continues its Bing redesign spree with a new look for Bing News. Here’s the before and after.

    Before

    Bing News before

    After

    Bing News After

    The design adapts to fit your browser width, so it looks good regardless of what device you’re using.

    It also now surfaces trending topics from Facebook, Twitter and Bing itself. The BIng News team writes in a blog post:

    Cut through the clutter from across the Web with Bing’s real-time view of the most relevant breaking trends and social conversations, available all in one place. At the top of the Bing News page, you can easily browse the latest headlines with the news carousel showcasing the latest trending topics in categories including US, world, local, entertainment, sports, politics, and more. If you search for a celebrity or politician who is making headlines, the recent news topics about that person will also be showcased in the carousel. On the right side of the page, you will see what news is trending on Facebook and Twitter based on popular “likes” and “tweets.”

    Bing’s “Satori” technology (basically Bing’s version of Knowledge Graph) also surfaces people who are related to trending news in a ‘Trending Now” section.

    Bing has also launched a new look for Video Search, and recently improved its product search offering.

  • Bing Launches News Carousel Feature For Bing News

    Bing Launches News Carousel Feature For Bing News

    Bing announced the launch of a new feature in Bing News called the News Carousel. When a user searches for a person of note (i.e. a celebrity or politician), they will see a visual carousel with current topics related to that person. On the right-hand side of the page, they will also see related people.

    A Bing spokesperson explains, “Say you’re searching for Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber, you’ll see in the News Carousel images of stories related to them, such as Bieber losing custody of his Capuchin monkey to the German government. On the right-hand side of the page you’ll also see related people that might be of interest because they have some sort of relationship to your query.

    Bing News Carousel

    “To do this Bing is leveraging the Satori technology that brings a deep understanding of the relationships between people, places and things to power the visual carousel that makes it easy to explore current events and other people related to the person you are searching for,” he adds.

    Satori, which means “Understanding” in Japanese, is basically Bing’s version of Google’s Knowledge Graph, and powers Bing’s Snapshot experience, as described here.

    “And that’s not the only progress we’ve made over at Bing News. We recently extended our news articles index beyond two weeks,” says Bing’s Tim Leung on the Bing blog. “This means when there’s no fresh news related to a given query, we can look back over several years to bring you any relevant articles. This is a pretty significant update and is just the start as we work to make Bing News even more comprehensive. While there’s still more to do, we believe these updates provide you with a deeper understanding of the world and an opportunity to explore the connections we’re able to make over here at Bing.”

    More on the blog.