Multitude of new websites are created every day. As such, there is a need from search engines to change the way they get the latest content indexed as soon as the content is published online. Cloudflare is excited to announce that they have partnered with Microsoft Bing and Yandex to support IndexNow
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This Giving Tuesday, we hope you’ll join us on Give with Bing to come together and make our biggest impact yet!
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The breadth of information available online can both be helpful and frustrating when you’re looking for information. Too often we spend a long time clicking through to and reading many different pages, only to find, for example, that the source is too academic and detailed to get through quickly or doesn’t quite contain what the page title suggests.
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11 new 3D cities from around the globe are now available on experiences powered by Microsoft Maps. For example, check out the beach in Calais, Portugal.
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Now more than ever consumers are looking for more options to shop across multiple online stores in a single place. In the latest shopping update from Microsoft Bing, product search is now even more convenient with insights on item popularity, price across multiple stores, and deals. In addition, the checkout process is simplified to help shoppers get what they're looked for in fewer clicks.
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What schools are within a 20-minute walk from my home? What available jobs are within a 30-minute transit commute? Where you are located and what is near you brings context to the choice of where you want to live. Bing Maps Isochrone API can help you bring that location intelligence into your applications.
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Sometimes shoppers know exactly what they want. Other times, they benefit from some outside inspiration. Whichever type of shopper you are, using the new shopping tabs on Microsoft Bing you can find more choices and new, better ways to search. These enhanced options provide useful hover menus and informative  page guides which highlight choices, deals, and trends.   
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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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