Blogs

With more of us confined to our homes, we are increasingly using online shopping both for home delivery and curbside pickups. In fact, Bing Shopping has seen more than a 40% increase in its shopping volume in last two months. In light of these changing times we’d like to share a few tips on how to save money while shopping online.
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Every day, users from all over the world perform hundreds of millions of search queries with Bing in more than 100 languages. Whether this is the first or the millionth time we see a query, whether the best results for a query change every hour or barely change at all, our users expect an immediate answer that serves their needs. Bing web search is truly an example of AI at Scale at Microsoft, showcasing the next generation of AI capabilities and...
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The Bing Maps team continues to release more stunning high-resolution oblique (45-degree angle) aerial Bird's Eye imagery. This most recent wave released over the last several months represents over 80,000 square kilometers of new imagery spanning 100+ cities in the United States.
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In March 2020 we annouced a refresh to the Webmaster Tools portal including updates to three reports, the Search performance report, the sitemaps tool and the backlinks tool. Today, we are annoucing three additional tools are migrating into the refreshed user experience: URL submission tool, Block URL tool and Crawl Control. 
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All news publications are strongly encouraged to register in the Bing News publisher portal Bing News PubHub for many benefits.
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Bing recently announced our work to help the world stay up to date on the latest with COVID-19. Today we’re announcing an expansion of this work in two areas that will allow organizations to leverage Bing data and search. First, we’re releasing our aggregated data to those in academia and research, and releasing a Bing-powered COVID-19 tracker widget for developers that is easy to embed on their sites. Second, we’re partnering...
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The demand for deliveries has surged because of the COVID-19 pandemic. People are staying home and getting their groceries and other essentials delivered to their doorsteps. Since launching in May 2019, we have listened to customer feedback and made a series of enhancements to meet the growing need with the Bing Maps Multi-Itinerary Optimization API.
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Bing Maps EMEA Distributor, Grey Matter, is holding a live online event for ISVs and developers on April 21 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm (UK BST). The event will include a keynote from leaders of Microsoft UK and Grey Matter plus six sessions, covering Bing Maps, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Online, Azure tools and more. Register for the session of your choice and be sure not to miss out on our session led by Justine Coates with the Bing Maps team.
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We’re excited to announce, webmasters will have more tools than ever to control the snippets that preview their site on the Bing results page.
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Bing is adding support for new schema.org markups to help keep everyone up to date on the latest special announcements related to COVID-19 pandemic
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