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What does the bingbot do and why does Bing need it? This is the first article in the series related to bingbot dand how we are focused on improving the bingbot crawler over the next 18 months. Discover what the bingbot is and what some of the challenges are with trying to manage expectations of webmasters and content systems at scale when they all have different views on the frequency of which their sites are crawled.
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The Bing APIs team was in Orlando, Florida, September 24th through the 28th for Microsoft Ignite 2018. If you were not able to attend the event, the session recordings are now available for viewing on https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/videos.
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The Bing Maps team was in Orlando, Florida, September 24th through the 28th for Microsoft Ignite 2018. If you were not able to attend the event, the session recordings are now available for viewing on https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/videos.
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Today we are happy to announce the release of additions and enhancements to the Bing Custom Search product. These new additions will enable developers and non-developers to further harness the power of the web by allowing them to build an even more powerful and customizable search experience.
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This post describes the various machine learning techniques used in GIF search by Bing. To provide the best GIF search experience Bing employs techniques such as sentiment analysis, OCR, and even pose modeling of subjects appearing in GIF flicks to reflect subtle intent variations of your queries. Read on to find out more about how we made it work.
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Bing is announcing the release of the AMP viewer and the Bing AMP Cache. If you have an AMP enabled site, please allow the Bingbot to fetch your content and authorize bing-amp.com for CORs referencing.
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Saying Goodbye is never easy, but the time has come to remove the ability to anonymously submit URLs directly through Bing.com's URL submission tool. Webmaster Tools will still support the ability to submit URLs and Sitemaps in the a logged in state.
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We’re excited to announce several new features this September at Bing including improvements and extensions of Visual Search, new education capabilities, and an expansion of context specific answers from NFL-related queries.  
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The Bing APIs team will be at Microsoft Ignite 2018, in Orlando, Florida, September 24th through the 28th. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Cognitive Services - Bing Search APIs booth in the Data & AI area of the Expo, to learn more about the new features and enhancements we’ve made to our Bing Search APIs platform.
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The Bing Maps team will be at Microsoft Ignite 2018, in Orlando, Florida, September 24th through the 28th. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Bing Maps APIs for Enterprise booth in the Modern Workplace area of the Expo, to learn more about the latest features and updates to our Bing Maps platform, as well as attend our sessions.
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