Windows 10: Black Friday on Bing: intelligent shopping, product insights, and more

Brink · Nov 16, 2018

Intelligent shopping

We know that often, shopping can be a journey. You might start with a need in mind, or a few products you want to learn about. To end up with a great purchase, you need the right tools to guide you along the way. To make your holiday shopping easier, we’ve embedded Bing artificial intelligence algorithms into parts of our shopping experience to deliver results that are both relevant and organized, to help you make the most efficient purchasing decision.

Black Friday

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just around the corner, we want to make sure you have access to the best deals across many of the top retailers—without the stress of having to clip coupons.

We’ve designed browsable Black Friday infographics, organized and categorized for shopping convenience from your desktop or phone. Search our repository for a specific store to find the best prices for the items you are looking for, and Bing automatically extracts deals from the flyer image.

Our Black Friday experience highlights important info, such as how long an offer lasts, nearby stores, or other ongoing promotions, so that you never miss a bargain this holiday season. To find Back Friday details from our regular Bing shopping tab, simply search on “Black Friday” and the name of the store or item you are searching for.

Also, keep an eye on this page after Black Friday as we’re adding more stores, more offers, and different promotions throughout the holidays.

Phone comparisons

We know that smartphones are one of the most common, and most expensive, purchases made during the holiday, and Black Friday is often the peak time for product deals. With so many different options available on the market today, it can be tough to understand the differences between each model to find the one best suited to your needs.

Comparison shop with Bing by searching, for example, “iPhone x vs Samsung galaxy s9” and Bing serves up information from authoritative sources such as ratings, expert reviews, and product highlights to accurately compare a variety of different product models in a way that’s easy to digest and browse.

Product insights

With so many new products and devices available during the holidays, even shopping online can become overwhelming. We want to help you better understand the buzz around new products, as well as the key features, ratings, and reviews to make an informed and stress-free purchasing decision. Simply type what you are looking for into Bing, such as “best laptops,” and you’ll see the product insights synthesized for you automatically.

Happy shopping!

Whether you’ve been planning for Black Friday since July or are more of a last-minute shopper, we hope that Bing’s intelligent features will help you make more efficient and stress-free decisions this holiday season—saving you time and money.

Stay tuned for more features as the holidays progress.
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Source: Black Friday on Bing: intelligent shopping, product insights, and more | Bing Search Blog

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Brink · Nov 16, 2018

Bing Launches More Intelligent Search Features

In December, we announced new intelligent search features which tap into advances in AI to provide people with more comprehensive answers, faster.

Today, we’re excited to announce improvements to our current features, and new scenarios that get you to your answer faster.

Intelligent Answers Updates

Since December we’ve received a lot of great feedback on our experiences; based on that, we’ve expanded many of our answers to the UK, improved our quality and coverage of existing answers, and added new scenarios.

More answers that include relevant information across multiple sources

Bing now aggregates facts for given topics across several sites for you, so you can save time by learning about a topic without having to check several sources yourself. For example, if you want to learn more about tundras, simply search for “tundra biome facts” and Bing will give you facts compiled from three different sources at the top of the results page.

Hover-over definitions for uncommon words

An enhancement to our intelligent answers we’re rolling out this week gives you insight into unfamiliar topics at a glance. When Bing recognizes a word that isn’t common knowledge, it will now show you its definition when you hover over with the cursor.

For example, imagine you are searching to find answers to a medical question. We've given you an answer, but there are some terms in the answer that you aren't familar with. Just hover over to get the definition without leaving the page.

Multiple answers for how-to questions

We received positive feedback from users including Bing Insiders who said they liked being able to view a variety of answer options in one place so they could easily decide which was best for them. We found that having multiple answers is especially helpful in situations where users struggle to write a specific enough query, such as when they have DIY questions but may not know the right words to ask. In the next few weeks, we’ll be shipping answers for how-to questions, so people can go one level deeper on their search and find the right information quickly.

More opportunities to search within an image

Another new feature we announced in December is intelligent image search, which allows you to search within an image to find similar images and products. With intelligent image search, users can manually select a desired object by manually cropping around them if they’d like, but our built-in object detection feature makes this easier by identifying these objects and highlighting them with clickable hotspots so all you have to do is click to get matching results.

When we first launched intelligent image search, the object detection feature was mostly focused on a few fashion items, like shirts and handbags. Since then we’ve expanded our object detection to cover all common top fashion categories, so you can find and shop what you see in more places than ever before.

Advancing our intelligent capabilities with Intel FPGA

Delivering intelligent search requires tasks like machine reading comprehension at scale, which require immense computational power. So, we built it on a deep learning acceleration platform, called Project Brainwave, which runs deep neural networks on Intel® Arria® and Stratix® Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) on the order of milliseconds.

Intel’s FPGA chips allows Bing to quickly read and analyze billions of documents across the entire web and provide the best answer to your question in less than a fraction of a second. Intel’s FPGA devices not only provide Bing the real-time performance needed to keep our search fast for our users, but also the agility to continuously and quickly innovate using more and more advanced technology to bring you additional intelligent answers and better search results. In fact, Intel’s FPGAs have enabled us to decrease the latency of our models by more than 10x while also increasing our model size by 10x.

We’re excited to disclose the performance details of two of our deep neural networks running in production today. You can read more about the advances we’ve made in the white paper, "Serving DNNs in Real Time at Datacenter Scale with Project Brainwave", and working behind the scenes on the project:

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We hope you’re as excited about these features as we are, and would love to hear your feedback!

- The Bing Team
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Source: Bing Launches More Intelligent Search Features | Bing Search Blog

See also: Intel FPGAs Accelerate Artificial Intelligence for Deep Learning in Microsoft’s Bing Intelligent Search

t77snapshot · Nov 16, 2018

[BLACK FRIDAY: 2010] leaks and deals!

There are some great deals in the list> Newegg.com | Black Friday Deals

I found the Phantom for $99 bucks free shipping on that list above^^^NZXT Phantom PHAN-001WT White Steel / Plastic ATX ...

DonInKansas · Nov 16, 2018

Choose your Own Black Friday Deal

Ummmmmm...... what is black friday? Where I come from black friday is friday the 13th....
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Black Friday is the first friday after Thanksgiving in the US---Start of the Christmas shopping season and general riots across shopping malls everywhere.

Windows 10: Black Friday on Bing: intelligent shopping, product insights, and more

Black Friday on Bing: intelligent shopping, product insights, and more

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