Bing Blogs - 27

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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We are excited to announce that the preview is over and Bing Maps SDK for Android and iOS is ready for your production applications. Since preview started the team has added numerous features, increased loading performance by over 40%, and optimized the API structure and stability.
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Wondering how to make a 3D map mixed reality experience in Unity? The Microsoft Garage Project Maps SDK project is a great place to start! The Maps SDK is a map control for Unity that allows us to utilize Bing Maps 3D Data in Unity-Based, mixed reality experiences. Here is a quick start guide on setting up the Maps SDK control and demoing the packaged samples.
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Under Microsoft’s AI for Humanitarian Action program, Bing Maps together with Microsoft Philanthropies is partnering with HOT on an initiative to bring AI Assistance as a resource in open map building. The initiative focuses on incorporating design updates, integrating machine learning, and bringing new open building datasets into Tasking Manager.
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Bing Webmaster Tools now allows webmaster to skip the manual site addition and verification process through the ability to import their verified sites from Google Search Console.
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On September 24th, Grey Matter Licensing Specialists will team up with Microsoft Technical Program Managers to bring you a Bing Maps APIs webinar focusing on geospatial-intelligent insights and mapping logistics for your existing telematics or CRM solution, websites, and more.
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Bing Webmaster Tools supports Domain Connect standard for site verification, reducing the time taken and simplifying the process for site addition.
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