We are proud to introduce WebQA, a dataset for multi-hop, multi-modal open-domain question answering challenge, to be hosted at NeurIPS 2021 Competition Track. Designed to simulate the heterogeneous information landscape one might expect when performing web search, WebQA contains 46K knowledge-seeking queries whose answers are to be found in either images or text snippets, where a system must determine relevant sources first before reasoning to...
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Announcing Indexnow a new protocol created by Microsoft Bing and Yandex, allowing websites to easily notify search engines whenever their website content is created, updated, or deleted. Using an API, once search engines are notified of updates they quickly crawl and reflect website changes in their index and search results.
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Rank Multimodal (RankMM) The RankMM model effectively combines the search paradigms of a text query, page context, and images to aid image and video retrieval. RankMM models are Visual Language (VL) models which take page context into account to improve image and video retrieval performance in a web-scale search engine.
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Enhancing image quality is a critical but challenging computer vision task. We've released a new AI-based model for improving the quality of images on Microsoft Bing. Not only are the Bing image search results relevant, but they are also beautiful and high-resolution. Our new V3 model outperformed the V2 model by 36% in terms of click-through rate, demonstrating that users find visually appealing images in search results more interesting and...
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Now gain access to instant indexing with 3 quick steps. Integrate with Bing URL submission API and instantly submit your content to index and serve to millions of users on Bing. 
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Bing Content Submission API is now open to all webmasters allowing websites to push their latest content and get it indexed at Bing, thus minimizing the need of Bingbot to crawl websites.
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As part of helping webmasters utilise Clarity tool more efficiently, we are starting a Bing webmaster - clarity series of articles. Since the launch of Clarity last year we have successfully onboarded thousands of online businesses from small stores to major retailers. During this time we have noticed that some sites are better at sales conversion than others read on to discover how.
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We’re excited to announce our new experience from Microsoft Bing that helps you get quickly caught up to speed on the Summer Games 2020. From event schedule to medal counter by country and more, this experience will help you find out where, when, and who to watch during the Games.
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As part of helping webmasters utilise Clarity tool more efficiently, we are starting a Bing webmaster - clarity series of articles. With so many things competing for your users’ attention, it is helpful to know how they are spending time on your website. Microsoft Clarity, our free-to-use behavioral analytics tool can capture useful data about their behavior.
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As part of helping webmasters utilise Clarity tool more efficiently, we are starting a Bing webmaster - clarity series of articles. Rage clicks are when users repeatedly click/tap on a specific area of your website for a short period of time. Discover how Clarity helps you spot and action this frustration.
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