Bing Blogs - 20

  • Shopping on Microsoft Bing: Fewer Clicks, More Choices

    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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  • Microsoft partners with Shopify to expand product selection for shoppers this holiday!

    As summer memories start to fade, autumn leaves start to fall, and we sip and enjoy pumpkin-spiced everything this month, we know that holiday shopping is right around the corner. And just in time for this year’s start to gathering and giving, we’re excited to announce a new integration with Shopify to make your holiday shopping easier and more meaningful!
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  • Introducing WebQA : A Multi-hop, Multi-modal & Open Domain Reasoning Challenge & Benchmark

    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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  • IndexNow - Instantly Index your web content in Search Engines

    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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  • Deep multimodality models in image search ranking stack

    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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  • Enhancing Image Quality in Microsoft Bing

    Enhancing image quality is a critical but challenging computer vision task. We've released a new AI-based model for improving the quality of images on Microsoft Bing. Not only are the Bing image search results relevant, but they are also beautiful and high-resolution. Our new V3 model outperformed the V2 model by 36% in terms of click-through rate, demonstrating that users find visually appealing images in search results more interesting and...
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  • Access to Instant Indexing: Bing URL submission API  

    Want your content indexed by Bing instantly? Microsoft offers two options, but for most users; IndexNow is the premier solution, offering faster, simpler indexing across multiple search engines with one easy ping. Prefer more control? The legacy URL Submission API is still available for advanced custom use. 
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  • Bing Webmaster-Clarity Series #4: Purchase funnel – streamline with Clarity

    As part of helping webmasters utilise Clarity tool more efficiently, we are starting a Bing webmaster - clarity series of articles. Since the launch of Clarity last year we have successfully onboarded thousands of online businesses from small stores to major retailers. During this time we have noticed that some sites are better at sales conversion than others read on to discover how.
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