Blogs

Imagine being able to navigate through your neighborhood using your hearing alone. With the help of Bing Maps Local Search and Location Recognition APIs, Microsoft Soundscape helps the blind and low vision explore the world around them using a map delivered in 3D sound.
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Our goal with Bing is to provide quick and easy ways to find the information you need to make informed decisions from across sources and content. This election season we want to provide a single destination for the 2020 U.S. presidential race that delivers comprehensive information about candidates and issues. Today, we’re launching an expanded Bing elections experience in Beta. 
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The Bing Maps team was in Orlando, Florida, November 4th through the 8th for Microsoft Ignite. If you were not able to attend the event, the session recordings are now available for viewing https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/.
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Today we share more about continued evolution of Bing Image Search towards a more intelligent search engine through multi-granularity matches, improved understanding of user queries, images and webpages, as well as the relationships between them.
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Quick reference guide on how to use cURL to ingerate Bing webmaster tools api's. This will help webmasters to programatically submit content to Bing. 
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Seeingit.com is an interactive, self-serve publishing website empowering locals, businesses, and event coordinators to share info about community events and fun things to see and do. With its location-based capabilities powered by the Bing Maps Platform, Seeingit.com saves users from FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) with maps.
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In the coming weeks, we will update the Bing Webmaster Guidelines to make them clearer and more transparent to the SEO community. In the first article of this series, we are introducing a new penalty to address “inorganic site structure” violations.
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Since our blog post in July highlighting new Bird’s Eye imagery, we’ve released more of our high resolution oblique 45-degree angle aerial Bird’s Eye imagery and just want to make sure you’re aware of this continued imagery expansion. The recent release of new Bird’s Eye over the last few months represents approximately 50,000 square kilometers of new Bird’s Eye imagery spanning 70 cities in the United States.
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Bing is adopting Microsoft Edge as the Bing engine to run JavaScript and render web pages. Doing so will create less fragmentation of the web and ease Search Engines Optimization (SEO) for all web developers. Bingbot will be evergreen as we are committing to regularly update our web page rendering engine to the most recent stable version of Microsoft Edge.
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The Bing Maps team is looking forward to seeing you at Microsoft Ignite 2019, in Orlando, Florida, November 4th through the 8th. If you are attending the event, we hope you will enjoy our sessions and stop by the Bing Maps for Enterprise booth in the Modern Workplace + Modern Life area of the Expo to learn more about the latest features and updates to our Bing Maps Platform.
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