Now on Bing: Find Out How Much that Job Pays
- Posted: Jun 17, 2009 at 7:18 AM
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Microsoft has partnered up with Seattle-based PayScale, a company that tracks the current market salaries for numerous professions worldwide. The new partnership brings immediate answers to anyone performing a Bing search query which asks a salary-related question. (For example, search Bing for lawyer salary). In a one-box type of result that appears at the top of the search results page, information about that profession’s compensation levels are provided including a base salary range, a bonus range and percentage reporting a bonus, as well as a chart that provides an at-a-glance summary of this information. There are also links to major metropolitan areas, a link to click for more cities, more details, and a link to click to compare your salary, all of which redirect you to PayScale’s website.
In testing this feature, I found that most of the common professions I could think of came up, but a few less common ones did not. One that was missing? “Blogger salary” of course. I guess none of us have those!
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Good, now keep this momentum... and make it available WorldWide... you know those first two "w"s people type when going to your new product
... I understand it's not simply clicking your fingers stopping worldwide releases but it would be nice for Bing UK and other international sites to benefit from the great features... e.g. healthcare topics.
Next up (if it were up to me):
MS already has information on a huge number of podcasts to make the last one possible, and it would encourage people to add their shows to the Zune Marketplace if they knew that it'd be a top result for the 12% of internet users using Bing. I imagine the others wouldn't be too hard to implement, I mean every book has an ISBN, every game has a license, every film has an IMDB page... and you guys are able to show me salaries?
It seems to me that Bing is exceptional with concepts, i.e. when's best to buy tickets, what sallary can I expect etc but it doesn't get content as well... surprising considering the internet is so geared towards content in our Web 2.0 days.
Best of luck with Bing going forward, just keep the momentum now so you don't need another relaunch 10 years from now.
Good, now keep this momentum... and make it available WorldWide... you know those first two "w"s people type when going to your new product
... I understand it's not simply clicking your fingers stopping worldwide releases but it would be nice for Bing UK and other international sites to benefit from the great features... e.g. healthcare topics.
Next up (if it were up to me):
MS already has information on a huge number of podcasts to make the last one possible, and it would encourage people to add their shows to the Zune Marketplace if they knew that it'd be a top result for the 12% of internet users using Bing. I imagine the others wouldn't be too hard to implement, I mean every book has an ISBN, every game has a license, every film has an IMDB page... and you guys are able to show me salaries?
It seems to me that Bing is exceptional with concepts, i.e. when's best to buy tickets, what sallary can I expect etc but it doesn't get content as well... surprising considering the internet is so geared towards content in our Web 2.0 days.
Best of luck with Bing going forward, just keep the momentum now so you don't need another relaunch 10 years from now.
Very true.. I agree.. MS needs to educate people on how to use all the features of Bing.
Very true.. I agree.. MS needs to educate people on how to use all the features of Bing.
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