Bing Blogs - 13

Fast Front-End Performance for Microsoft Bing

Fast Front-End Performance for   Microsoft Bing

The Bing search stack is built for speed at all layers. Fast performance delights users and drives loyalty and engagement. This blog presents the key performance techniques used by Bing’s front-end to deliver and render search results pages with world-class speed.
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Live and In Person October 5th, 2022! ISV Partner Day in Reading, UK.

Live and In Person October 5th, 2022! ISV Partner Day in Reading, UK.

We're very excited to be able to invite you to join our MapEMEA partner, GreyMatter at Microsoft’s newly refurbished office in Reading for ISV Partner Day on October 5th, 2022. This fantastic in person event presents a unique opportunity to network with Microsoft speakers, as well as experts from the Grey Matter team and representatives from some of our most in-demand partners. 
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Shopping Searches are Now Smarter on Microsoft Bing

Shopping Searches are Now Smarter on Microsoft Bing

The Microsoft Bing team is excited to announce the addition of time- and money-saving annotations to shopping search results. Ever wondered if you were overlooking coupons or special promotions when you shop online? Or perhaps you didn’t even consider that a discount might be available, and you missed out! Bing now provides you with this information within shopping searches – annotations neatly nested within your search results...
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Expansion of Microsoft Rewards to 40+ new countries

Expansion of Microsoft Rewards to 40+ new countries

We are excited to announce the expansion of Microsoft Rewards! We believe that you can and should get more value out of the searches you perform every day, and we want to bring this value to as many of our users around the world as possible.
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Accessing the Bing Maps REST services from various JavaScript frameworks

Accessing the Bing Maps REST services from various JavaScript frameworks

On the Bing Maps forums we often come across developers who have difficulty accessing the Bing Maps REST services using different JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, Angular, React, or Blazor. One common point of confusion is that passing in a REST service request URL into the address bar of a browser works, but passing that same URL into a method in JavaScript doesn’t. 
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New Bing Maps Experiences: Distance Calculator, Gas Prices and Parking Finder

New Bing Maps Experiences: Distance Calculator, Gas Prices and Parking Finder

Let’s take a little trip. It’s raining this weekend in Seattle (surprise, surprise), so we’ve decided to head to San Diego for the sun — the weather should be better there. The first thing we want to do is figure out how far it is from Seattle to San Diego, as well as find nearby gas stations with an easy map app. We’ve heard the drive is beautiful, especially along the Oregon coast, so let’s calculate the...
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