Microsoft today announced a new feature for Bing.com where they will be posting the predictions of the events based on their ability to process trillions of signals to reflect what is happening in the real world. For instance, during the presidential elections, Bing experiences a surge of positive and negative queries about the presidential candidates from different parts of the U.S. Taking this model even further, teams within Bing have been experimenting with useful ways that we can harness the power of Bing to model outcomes of events. This could be anything from an election or sporting event to whether an actor will win the People’s Choice Award. Bing team is bringing_these insights directly to our search results pages. Based on a variety of different signals including search queries and social input from Facebook and Twitter, they will be unveiling an experiment they have built to give you our prediction of the outcome of a given event. How does it work? To trigger the feature, simply search for The Voiceor...

The rest of the story...
Microsoft News