Blogs

Today we would like to announce the release of the Bing Maps .NET Spatial Data Services Toolkit on Github which makes it easy to use the Bing Maps spatial data services within a .NET application.
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On the heels of recently shipped Bing Visual Search we are taking another step to streamline the experience where Bing automatically detects and suggests objects to search for. It is called Bing Object Detection. Read on to find out how it works and how we made it happen.
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Join the Bing APIs team at Microsoft Ignite 2017! We will demo the soon to be released general availability version of Bing Custom Search, share updates on Bing Search V7 and Bing Entity Search, and discuss Microsoft AI along with the customizable search capabilities of Cognitive Services.
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Bing is adding a new UX element to the search results, called the “Fact Check” label, to help users find fact checking information on news, and with major stories and webpages within the Bing search results.
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Microsoft Ignite 2017 is taking place in Orlando, Florida from September 25 to September 29, and we’ll be there sharing a lot of exciting new developments.
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This month on Bing: machine learning image object recognition, updated news results, and more.
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GeoJSON is a common file format used for storing spatial data as a JSON object and is easy to import and export in Bing Maps V8 using the GeoJSON module. In this blog post we will take a look at how to make enable dragging and dropping of GeoJSON files onto Bing Maps using the HTML5 FileReader and Drag and Drop classes.
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The main release branch of the Bing Maps Version 8 (V8) Web Control has been regularly updated over the summer. These updates have brought several new features, both big and small, as well as many improvements and bug fixes to existing features.
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14 beauttiful nature photos, courtesy of Bing, to help you relax.
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We are pleased to announce that we have increased the free query limit for Bing Custom Search Preview to 20,000 queries/month, allowing you to use more custom search queries for your applications.
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