Bing Blogs - 31

Intelligent GIF Search: Finding the right GIF to express your emotions

This post describes the various machine learning techniques used in GIF search by Bing. To provide the best GIF search experience Bing employs techniques such as sentiment analysis, OCR, and even pose modeling of subjects appearing in GIF flicks to reflect subtle intent variations of your queries. Read on to find out more about how we made it work.
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Anonymous URL Submission Tool Being Retired

Saying Goodbye is never easy, but the time has come to remove the ability to anonymously submit URLs directly through Bing.com's URL submission tool. Webmaster Tools will still support the ability to submit URLs and Sitemaps in the a logged in state.
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Join the Bing Maps APIs team at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando

Join the Bing Maps APIs team at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando

The Bing Maps team will be at Microsoft Ignite 2018, in Orlando, Florida, September 24th through the 28th. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Bing Maps APIs for Enterprise booth in the Modern Workplace area of the Expo, to learn more about the latest features and updates to our Bing Maps platform, as well as attend our sessions.
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Intelligent Search: Video summarization using machine learning

This blog post describes how Bing does video summarization at internet scale using machine learning. Videos account for some of the richest and most delightful content on the web. But it can be difficult to tell which cat video is really going to make you LOL. That can be a frustrating and time-consuming process and it’s why we decided to help by building a smart preview feature to improve our search results and help our users more...
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Bing helps you learn more about the news in less time

Bing helps you learn more about the news in less time

At Bing, we want to empower users to get an overview of the news in less time. That’s why we built the Bing spotlight that provides overviews of news topics that you can see right in the Bing search results when you search for major developing news stories.
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Realtime Transit Trip Updates Added to CalcRoute API

Realtime Transit Trip Updates Added to CalcRoute API

We are announcing the addition of real-time transit trip updates to the CalcRoute API. Real-time transit data is made available by a limited set of transit agencies who provide their data in real-time format. We have coverage provided by 100 agencies in metro areas across the world including New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Toronto, Houston, and Baltimore. Currently, the 4 markets where coverage exists are the United States, Canada...
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