Bing Blogs - 26

  • Mind your Margins!

    The search box is the most important piece of UX on our page. It won’t be an overstatement to say that the search box is the most important piece of UX on any search engine. No change to the UX is too trivial, no change passes through un-verified. During one such exercise we noticed that some of our customers were having a sub-optimal experience with our search box. Some of their clicks were being ignored by the search box.  As we...
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  • Announcing future user-agents for Bingbot

    Bing is adopting Microsoft Edge as the engine to run JavaScript and render web pages. In the coming months, we will switch to Microsoft Edge for all sites with the new user agents shared in this post.
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  • Routing made easier with traffic camera images and more

    After launching traffic camera imagery on Bing Maps in April, we have seen a lot of interest in this new feature. Based on the popularity of this feature, the Bing Maps Routing and Traffic team has made some further improvements to this routing experience.
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  • Soundscape app delivers the world in 3D sound with Bing Maps

    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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  • Bing 2020 US Elections Experience (Beta)

    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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  • Multi-granularity matching for Bing Image Search

    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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