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Goal is to make Bing a "quality product in 75 markets."



From ArsTechnica:
Microsoft's Bing search engine is slowly expanding its market share, and its underlying technology is becoming increasingly embedded into Microsoft's other products including Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone's Cortana personal assistant. But there has been a major sticking point among its users: in many markets around the world, it's just not that great.

In the US, Bing and Bing-driven services provide good search results, extensive local information, and structured results. In the rest of the world, however, much of this rich information is absent. With the Windows Phone platform finding its greatest success outside the borders of the US, the apparent lack of attention paid to international markets has been a notable and surprising omission.
  Microsoft to finally give Bing the international love it needs